Pagoda Tree Flower Powder

Pagoda Tree Flower Powder

Sophorae Flos (Huai Hua dry-fried) 12g, Platycladi Cacumen (Ce Bai Ye baked) 12g, Schizonepetae Spica (Jing Jie Sui) 6g, Aurantii Fructus (Zhi Qiao dry-fried with wheat bran) 6g

Grind the medicinals into a fine powder, and take with rice soup before meals. (Modern use: grind the medicinals into a fine powder, take with warm water or rice soup. It can also be prepared as a decoction by adjusting the dosages according to the proportions of the original formula.)

Clears the intestines and stanches bleeding, scatters wind and moves qi.

The formula is used for patterns of wind heat, and damp toxins obstructing the intestines damaging blood vessels. Bleeding that occurs either before or after defecation, blood stained stool, or hemorrhoid bleeding marks this pattern. The color of the blood can be either bright or dark, the tongue is red with a yellow coating, and the pulse is rapid.

The indication of this formula is to treat intestinal wind or visceral toxins due to wind heat, or damp toxins obstructing the intestines and damaging the blood vessels. Generally speaking, “the blood from intestinal wind is fresh and bright red, and it bleeds in full fury before stool is evacuated. While the blood from viscera toxins is dark and defecated either before or after stool is evacuated.”《Convenient Reader on Established Formulas》Cheng Fang Bian Du《成方便讀》. The primary therapeutic principle is to cool the blood and stanch bleeding, which is assisted by scattering wind and moving qi.

1. Essential pattern differentiation Huai Hua San is used to treat hemafecia due to intestinal wind or damp heat. This clinical pattern is marked by bloody stool, bleeding that is bright red in color, red tongue, rapid pulse. 2. Modern applications This formula may be used in the following biomedically defined disorders when the patient shows signs of wind heat or damp heat toxins obstructing the intestines and damaging the blood vessels: hemorrhoid, colonitis, intestinal cancer, or hematochezia originating elsewhere. 3. Cautions and contraindications Since these medicinals are cold and cool in nature, it should only be used for temporary administration rather than for long term use. It is not suitable for bloody stool due to qi deficiency or yin deficiency or weakness of the spleen and the stomach.