Rhubarb 500 gm (finely powdered) Safflower 90 gm (stir-fried until yellow, cooked with 400 ml of good wine for 3-5 boils, discard the safflower, keep only the juice) Black beans 1.2 kg (boiled with 2.25 shēng of water to yield 700 ml of juice, discard the beans) Sappan wood 90 gm (filed, boiled with 2.25 shēng of river water to yield 700 ml of juice, discard the dregs). With the above 3 ingredients, first mix the rhubarb powder with 500-700 ml of good rice vinegar, then boil over moderate or vigorous fire to form a paste. Add another 750 ml of vinegar, mix well, and boil again to form a paste. Then add the safflower wine, black bean juice, and sappan wood decoction, pour into the rhubarb paste, mix well, and boil again to form a paste. Remove and set aside for use. If there is any burnt residue, bake it dry and grind it into the following medicine: Angelica sinensis, Ligusticum chuanxiong, Rehmannia glutinosa (must be prepared), Poria cocos (peeled), Atractylodes lancea (soaked in rice water), Cyperus rotundus, Lindera aggregata, Corydalis yanhusuo, Prunus persica (soaked in boiling decoction, peeled, stir-fried, separately ground), Achyranthes bidentata (de-reeded), Typha angustifolia pollen, each 30 gm; Paeonia lactiflora (wine-fried), Glycyrrhiza uralensis, aged tangerine peel, Atractylodes macrocephala (de-reeded), Citrus reticulata (white part removed), Chaenomeles speciosa, each 9 gm; Alpinia officinarum 12 gm; Boswellia carterii, Commiphora myrrha, each 30 gm.

bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage

Grind into a fine powder, mix with rhubarb paste to form pills as big as marbles. Take one pill each time, dissolve in wine and consume.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Tonifying and replenishing qi and blood, relieving depression and resolving stasis, regulating menstruation and alleviating pain.

bubble_chart Indications

Women with menorrhagia and metrostaxis, leukorrhea, postpartum fatigue and deficiency; virgins with amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, and irregular menstruation.

bubble_chart Formula Modification

If postpartum headache and fever with sweating are due to a common cold, and without sweating are due to cold-damage disease, add 0.9 grams each of Cinnamon Twig and Ephedra powder, along with Fresh Ginger Rhizome and scallion decoction, to be taken in one dose. If there is no milk after childbirth, add 0.9 grams each of Snakegourd Root, Tail of Chinese Angelica, roasted Pangolin scales, and Coptis Rhizome, grind them into powder, mix with wine to form pills, and take at any time. Have the nursing mother massage her nipples over a thousand times, and the milk will come.