Navel-Warming Dampness-Resolving Decoction

傅青主女科

Atractylodes macrocephala 30g (earth-fried) Poria 9g Chinese Yam 15g (fried) Morinda root flesh 15g (soaked in salt water) Hyacinth bean 9g (fried, crushed) Ginkgo 10 pieces (crushed) Jian lotus seeds 30 pieces (do not remove the heart)

One dose daily, decoct in water, take warm in two divided doses, morning and evening. It should be taken ten days before the expected onset of menstruation.

湯劑

Dispel cold and remove dampness, warm the channels and stop pain.

In women, when cold and dampness contend in the lower jiao, with pain below the umbilicus three to five days before the coming of menstruation, like knife stabbing, or alternating cold and heat, with discharge like black bean juice; and infertility, etc.