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Original Qi-Restoring and Blood-Moving Decoction

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Original Qi-Restoring and Blood-Moving Decoction
ChiefJiu Zhi Da Huang
    • expels and eliminates blood stasis
    • conducts the stasis downward
    • expels blood stasis in order to generate new blood
This combination is often used to treat blood stasis in the liver channel.
ChiefChai Hu
    • soothes the liver and rectifies qi
This combination is often used to treat blood stasis in the liver channel.
DeputyTao Ren
    • invigorate blood and dissolve stasis
    • diminish swelling and relieve pain
This combination is often used to invigorate blood and unblock the collaterals.
DeputyHong Hua
    • invigorate blood and dissolve stasis
    • diminish swelling and relieve pain
This combination is often used to invigorate blood and unblock the collaterals.
DeputyChuan Shan Jia
    • breaks up blood stasis and unblocks the collaterals
    • diminishes swelling and dissipates masses
This combination is often used to invigorate blood and unblock the collaterals.
AssistantDang Gui
    • supplements blood
    • invigorates blood
This combination is often used to activate blood and nourish yin.
AssistantTian Hua Fen
    • works in the blood level and assists other medicinals to expel stasis and dissipate masses
    • clears heat and moistens dryness
This combination is often used to activate blood and nourish yin.
EnvoyGan Cao
    • regulates urgency and relieves pain
    • harmonizes medicinals

Original Qi-Restoring and Blood-Moving DecoctionPrescription Information

Name
Original Qi-Restoring and Blood-Moving Decoction
Chinese Name

复元活血汤

Classification

Blood-regulating formulas

Combination
Bupleuri Radix (Chai Hu) 0.5 liang (15g), Trichosanthis Radix (Tian Hua Fen) 3 qian (9g), Angelicae Sinensis Radix (Dang Gui) 3 qian (9g), Carthami Flos (Hong Hua) 2 qian (6g), Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma (Gan Cao) 2 qian (6g), Manis Squama (Chuan Shan Jia) 2 qian (6g), Rhei Radix et Rhizoma (Da Huang wine-fried) 1 liang (30g), Persicae Semen (Tao Ren remove the peel and tip; chopped; and wine-fried) 50 pcs (15g)
Method
Except for tao ren, chop the rest of the medicinals as small as beans. Then decoct 1 liang with one and half cups of water and a half cup of wine. Boil the medicinals until 7 fen remain, and then remove the dregs. Ingest the hot solution before meals, take the formula until diarrhea appears, this will relieve the abdominal pain. There is no need to drink the whole decoction. (Modern use: chop all the medicinals into a crude powder, and prepare each dosage at 30g. Decoct each dosage with yellow wine 30ml.)
Action
Invigorates blood and dispels stasis, soothes liver and unblocks the collaterals.
Indication
Fu Yuan Huo Xue Tang is indicated for injuries from falls, fractures, contusions, and strains, as well as, patterns of blood stasis marked by unbearable hypochondriac pain due to obstructive stasis.
Pathogenesis
This pattern is due to traumatic injury causing blood stasis that lingers underneath the hypochondrium along with qi stagnation. The hypochondrium is coursed by the liver channel. Injuries cause blood stasis and qi stagnation, therefore pain, even very severe, occurs in the hypochondrium. The proper treatment method used for this pattern is to invigorate blood, dispel stasis, soothe the liver, move qi, and unblock the collaterals.
Application
1. Essential pattern differentiation Fu Yuan Huo Xue Tang is commonly used for traumatic injuries and patterns of blood stasis obstruction. This clinical pattern is marked by bruising, swelling, and pain in the lateral thorax, all sorts of traumatic injuries when properly modified. 2. Modern applications Fu Yuan Huo Xue Tang may be used in the following biomedically defined disorders when the patient shows signs of obstructive blood stasis: intercostal neuralgia, rib cartilage inflammation, chest contusion, psychosis, and breast hyperplasia. 3. Cautions and contraindications Stop the administration when diarrhea occurs. If the pain is relieved along with diarrhea but without a complete cure, formula modification or even a different formula should be applied. Contraindicated during pregnancy.
Additonal formulae
Qi Li San (Seven Li Powder 七厘散)
Remark
All species of Pangolin are threatened. They are listed as "Vulnerable" , "Endangered" or "Critically endangered" in the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. Also, they are listed in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendix I. They are highly protected and the wild specices for commercial trade purposes are banned.
Source
《Medical Invention》Yi Xue Fa Ming《醫學發明》

Original Qi-Restoring and Blood-Moving DecoctionFormulation composition herbal medicine

Snakegourd Root

Snakegourd Root

Trichosanthis Radix
Functions：Clears heat, drains fire, engenders fluid, stops thirst, expels pus, eliminates swelling. Apply to thirst due to heat, diabetes, jaundice, hemoptysis due to dryness of lung, swelling abscess, hemorrhoid fistula. As for apply to diabetes, often combined with medicinal material, which can nourish yin, to achieve the effect.
Peach Seed

Peach Seed

Persicae Semen
Functions：Invigorates blood, dispels stasis, moistens intestines, frees stools, relieves cough, calms panting. Apply to amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, abdominal mass, injury from falls, and constipation due to dryness of intestines.
Safflower

Safflower

Carthami Flos
Functions：Boosts blood, frees channels, disperses stasis, stops pains. Apply to menostasia, painful menstruation, retention of the lochia, abdominal mass, chest impediment and pain, abdominal stagnation and pain, chest and flank sting, traumatic injury, sore swelling pain.
Liquorice Root

Liquorice Root

Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma
Functions：Supplements the spleen, boosts qi, clears heat, resolves toxin, dispels phlegm, relieves cough, relaxes tension, relieves pain, harmonizes the nature of other medicinals.
Chinese Angelica

Chinese Angelica

Angelicae Sinensis Radix
Functions：Supplements the blood, invigorates the blood, regulates menstruation, relieves pain, moistens the intestines, frees the stool. Apply to chlorosis due to hemopenia, vertigo and palpitation, irregular menstrual periods, amenorrhea and painful menstruation, deficiency cold abdominalgia, constipation induced by dryness of the intestine, rheumatic arthralgia, injuries from falls, superficial infection and burns and scalds.
Rhubarb|Tangute Rhubarb

Rhubarb|Tangute Rhubarb

Rhei Radix et Rhizoma
Functions：Relieves stagnation, clears dampn-heat, reduces fire, cools blood, eliminates stasis, relieves toxin. Apply to constipation induced by sthenic fever, heat and distention and full of chest, damp-heat diarrhea, jaundice, strangury, edema and sbdominal fullness, difficulty of urination, conjunctival congestion, swelling pain of throat, sor of mouth and tongue, vomiting due to heat stomach, apostaxis, cough with blood, epistaxis, hematochezia, hematuria, blood stasis, amenorrhea, postpartum stasis and pain, abdominal mass accumulation, trsumatic injury, carbuncle and ulcer due to heat toxin, erysipelas, empyrosis.
Chinese Thorawax Root

Chinese Thorawax Root

Bupleuri Radix
Functions：Harmonizes the interior and exterior, courses the liver, resolves depression, outthrust the exterior, discharge heat, upbears yang, and raises the sunken. Apply to cold and pyrexia, spell of fever and chills, malaria, stagnation f liver and qi, gastric and costal swelling pain, anal prolapsed, uterine prolapse, irregular menses.
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