Angelica root (washed with wine), Rehmannia glutinosa, Cyperus rotundus (cooked with child's urine), each 120 gm; dried Chinese yam, Atractylodes macrocephala, each 75 gm; Lycium barbarum, Panax ginseng, each 60 gm; Artemisia argyi 60 gm (de-stemmed, tendons removed, cooked with aged vinegar and old wine for one hour, mashed and baked dry); Ligusticum chuanxiong, Paeonia lactiflora, Paeonia suffruticosa, Fluorite (calcined and quenched), each 45 gm; Lycopus lucidus 30 gm; one placenta (washed in clean water to remove impurities, purple tendons removed with a silver needle).

bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage

The above ingredients, including the sliced herbs and placenta, are placed in an earthenware pot. Add 750 ml of aged rice wine, 250 ml of aged rice vinegar, 250 ml of clear child's urine, and 750 ml of rice-washed water. Mix well and pour into the pot, ensuring the liquid covers the herbs by about an inch. If more liquid is needed, add additional rice-washed water. Seal the pot tightly and simmer over a slow fire using mulberry wood until the placenta dissolves and the liquid evaporates. Once done, remove the mixture and pound it into a paste in a stone mortar. Shape the paste into cakes and expose them to sunlight during the day and dew at night for three days and nights. After drying, bake and grind into powder. Mix with honey to form pills as large as phoenix tree seeds. Take 50 pills initially, gradually increasing to 90 pills, administered with light salt water before meals.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Nourishing blood, tonifying qi, regulating menstruation.

bubble_chart Indications

Deficiency of both qi and blood, menstrual irregularities, and prolonged infertility.

For delayed menstruation, with scanty flow or absence of flow, due to blood cold and blood deficiency, add 15g of Cassia Central Bark (9g in summer) and 30g of roasted Astragalus Root. For early menstruation due to blood heat, add 60g of stir-fried Scutellaria Root and 45g of wine-processed Unprocessed Rehmannia Root. For abdominal pain, add 30g of Peony Root. For abdominal pain before menstruation, add 30g of wine-fried Corydalis Tuber, 24g of Dried Tangerine Peel, and 15g each of Aucklandia Root and Bupleurum. For pain after menstruation, add 9g of stir-fried Dried Ginger, 30g of White Poria, and 6g of Cassia Central Bark in summer (15g in other months). For continuous pain or prolonged dripping three to five days after menstruation, add 15g of Aucklandia Root and 18g of Bupleurum. For dark purple or black menstrual blood, add 30g of Skullcap Root, 30g of stir-fried Phellodendron Bark, and 45g of wine-soaked Unprocessed Rehmannia Root. For delayed menstruation with pale color in obese individuals, indicating damp phlegm, add 30g each of White Poria, Dried Tangerine Peel, and Atractylodes Rhizome (soaked in rice water overnight and stir-fried with salt water), and 15g of White Atractylodes Rhizome, while reducing Prepared Rehmannia Root by 30g. For thin individuals with blood deficiency, add 15g of Cassia Central Bark.

bubble_chart Cautions and Contraindications

Avoid eating raw radishes while taking medication.