Question | Answer |
What are the 4 pales + 1 yellow | Pale tongue, lips, nails, sclera + sallow yellow complexion |
Tonify blood herbs are primarily for LR+HT blood xu...what are S&S | 4 pales + 1 yellow, fatigue, light-headed, dizzy, vertigo, HA, weak nails & hair, poor vision, dry eyes, scant menses, insomnia, forgetful, constipation, itchy skin |
Si wu tang (4 substance) indication | Blood Xu (primarily LR),T & reg blood, menses, Chong and Ren |
If there are heat signs with Bld Xu, | substitute Sheng di for Shu di |
If there is Bld Stag with Bld Xu | substitute Chi shao for Bai shao |
Shu di, Bai shao, Dang gui, Chuan xiong formula | Si wu tang (4 substance) herbs |
Qin lian si wu tang (4 substance with scutellaria and coptis) indication | Blood Xu with heat cause heavy menses |
Tao hong si wu tang (4 substance with safflower and peach pit) | Blood Xu with blood stagnation (short menses, copious bleed with purple & sticky blood, PMS & pain worse when bleeding starts, large clots) |
Bu gan tang (tonify the LR) | LR blood and Yin xu, stiff LR |
Ai fu nuan gong wan (Mugwort & actonite pill to warm uterus) | Restless fetus D/T bld xu + cold uterus |
Main formulas for restless fetus | Ai fu nuan gong wan, Tai shan pan shi wanthere is 1 more |
Shao yao gan cao tang (Peony & Licorice) indication | Muscle spasm D/T LR blood Xu (anywhere) |
Bai shao + ZGC formula | Shao yao gan cao tang |
Gui shi jia shao yao tang indication | Postpartum mastitis or spasm anywhere |
Dang gui shao yao san indication | Abdominal pain due to LR/SP disharmony |
What was originally used for S&S related to PG | Dang gui shao yao san |