bubble_chart Efficacy

Nourishing blood to moisten dryness, promoting bowel movement.

bubble_chart Indications

Blood deficiency leads to severe constipation or difficulty in passing stool, which resembles sheep droppings, and a loss of appetite.

bubble_chart Formula Principles

This formula is composed of Hemp Seed Pill to remove Peony Root, with the addition of Chinese Angelica, Unprocessed Rehmannia Root, Prepared Rehmannia Root, Skullcap Root, Peach Kernel, and Liquorice Root. It is suitable for constipation due to blood deficiency and intestinal dryness. In the formula, Hemp Seed Pill moistens the intestines and purges heat, moves qi to promote bowel movement; Chinese Angelica and Prepared Rehmannia Root nourish blood to moisten dryness; Unprocessed Rehmannia Root and Skullcap Root clear accumulated heat in the intestines and stomach; Peach Kernel moistens and purges to promote bowel movement; Liquorice Root harmonizes all the ingredients. The combination of these ingredients uses blood-tonifying medicinals with lubricant laxatives to promote bowel movement without harming the body's vital energy.

bubble_chart Pattern Identification

Postpartum women or elderly individuals with blood deficiency-related constipation can choose to use it.

1. fever: add Bupleurum.
2. abdominal pain: add Aucklandia Root.
3. blood deficiency and severe dryness: add Peach Kernel, Carthamus, double the amount of Chinese Angelica, and Prepared Rehmannia Root.
4. wind-dryness constipation: add Bush Cherry Seed,皂夾, Notopterygium.
5. qi deficiency constipation: add Ginseng, Bush Cherry Seed.
6. qi excess constipation: add Areca Seed, Aucklandia Root.
7. phlegm-fire constipation: add Trichosanthis Fruit, Bomboo Juice.
8. body fluids exhaustion: add Ginseng, Ophiopogon Tuber.
9. menstrual and postpartum blood stagnation: add Sichuan Lovage Rhizome, Carthamus.

bubble_chart Modern Application

Postpartum constipation, habitual constipation in the elderly, constipation.