bubble_chart Efficacy

Warming yang strengthens the spleen, nourishes blood, and stops bleeding.

bubble_chart Indications

Spleen yang deficiency, bloody stools, hematemesis, epistaxis, and women's menorrhagia, with dull blood color, cold limbs, sallow complexion, pale tongue with white coating, and deep, thin, and weak pulse.

bubble_chart Formula Principles

In the formula, the core of the stove's yellow earth warms the middle and stops bleeding as the sovereign; White Atractylodes Rhizome and Aconite Lateral Root warm spleen yang and replenish middle qi, assisting the sovereign medicinal to restore the power of control as the ministers; excessive bleeding leads to depletion of yin blood, and the acrid-warm Atractylodes and Aconite Lateral Root can easily consume and stir blood, hence Unprocessed Rehmannia Root and Donkey-hide Gelatin are used to nourish yin and blood, with Skullcap Root clearing heat and stopping bleeding as the assistants; Liquorice Root harmonizes the medicinals and the middle as the envoy. The combination of these medicinals uses both cold and heat, treating both the symptoms and the root, balancing hardness and softness, warming yang without damaging yin, and enriching yin without hindering yang.

Modern medicine believes that this prescription promotes platelet aggregation, enhances blood coagulation, reduces inflammation, and boosts immune function. It is mainly used for: chronic gastrointestinal bleeding, functional uterine bleeding, presenting with bloody stools, or hematemesis, epistaxis, or women with menorrhagia and metrostaxis, with dull blood color, cold limbs, pale yellow complexion, pale tongue texture, white coating, and deep, thin, weak pulse.