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Menses-Securing Pill

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Menses-Securing Pill
ChiefGui Ban
    • subdues fire by boosting the kidney and enriching yin
The three are often used together as a medicinal trio to enrich yin, clear heat and stanch bleeding.
ChiefBai Shao
    • nourishes the liver by astringing yin and boosting blood
The three are often used together as a medicinal trio to enrich yin, clear heat and stanch bleeding.
ChiefHuang Qin
    • clears heat, drains fire, and stanches bleeding
The three are often used together as a medicinal trio to enrich yin, clear heat and stanch bleeding.
DeputyHuang Bai
    • drains fire and consolidates yin
Assists huang qin to clear heat and gui ban to subdue fire.
AssistantChun Gen Pi
    • clears fire, stanches bleeding with its astringent flavor
Treats the branch.
AssistantXiang Fu
    • regulates qi and invigorates blood
Normal qi circulation helps normal blood circulation.
Prevents stasis caused by the large number of cold medicinals.

Menses-Securing PillPrescription Information

Name
Menses-Securing Pill
Chinese Name

固经丸

Classification

Astringent formulas

Combination
Scutellariae Radix (Huang Qin dry-fried) 1 liang (30g), Paeoniae Radix Alba (Bai Shao dry-fried) 1 liang (30g), Testudinis Plastrum (Zhi Gui Ban vinegar-fried) 1 liang (30g), Phellodendri Chinensis Cortex (Huang Bai dry-fried) 3 qian (9g), Ailanthi Cortex (Chun Gen Pi) 7.5 qian (22.5g), Cyperi Rhizoma (Xiang Fu) 2.5 qian (7.5g)
Method
Grind the medicinals into a fine powder, sieve and blend together. Use water to form the powder into pills. Take 6g as a draft twice a day and swallow with warm, boiled water. This formula can also be prepared as a decoction by adjusting the medicinal quantities based on the original ratios.
Action
Enriches yin and clears heat, consolidates the channels and stanches bleeding.
Indication
Gu Jing Wan is designed for flooding and spotting due to yin deficiency and blood heat. The symptoms include flooding and spotting or profuse menstruation that is dark or purple, feverish sensation in the palms and soles, weakness and soreness in the loins and knees, a red tongue body, and a rapid pulse.
Pathogenesis
The corresponding disorders treated by this formula are mostly caused by liver and kidney yin deficiency and intense ministerial fire that impair the chong mai and ren mai, causing them to push out blood. Qi stagnation and blood stasis due to liver constraint, together with blood heat, result in purple-black menstrual clots. Yin deficiency results in vigorous fire that leads to a feverish sensation in the palms and soles and weak, sore loin and knees. Red tongue body and a wiry pulse indicate constrained heat. Therefore, the treatment should aim at enriching yin and clearing heat, regulating menstruation, and stanching bleeding.
Application
1. Essential pattern differentiation Gu Jing Wan is commonly used for flooding and spotting or profuse menstruation due to blood heat. This clinical pattern is marked by dark red or purple-black, sticky menses, red tongue, wiry, rapid pulse. 2. Modern applications This formula may be used in the following biomedically defined disorders when the patient shows signs of yin deficiency and blood heat signs: dysfunctional uterine bleeding, profuse or prolonged scanty uterine bleeding resulted from chronic adnexitis.
Remark
Reeves' Terrapin ( Chinemys reevesii / Mauremys reevesii ) is listed as "Endangered" in the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. Also, it is listed in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendix III. Its trade is regional control and subject to permits or certificates of origin.
Source
《Teachings of [Zhu] Dan-xi》Dan Xi Xin Fa《丹溪心法》

Menses-Securing PillFormulation composition herbal medicine

Nutgrass Galingale Rhizome

Nutgrass Galingale Rhizome

Cyperi Rhizoma
Functions：Moves qi, resolves depression, regulates menstruation, relieves pain. apply to stagnation of qi due to live depression, chest and abdominal swelling pain, indigestion, irregular menstrual periods, amenorrhea and dysmenorrheal, cold hernia pain, painful swollen breasts.
Baikal Skullcap Root

Baikal Skullcap Root

Scutellariae Radix
Functions：Clears heat, dries dampness, drains fire, resolves toxin, stops bleeding, calms fetus, reduces blood pressure. Apply to damp-warm diseases, chest retention and vomiting due to summer-warm, retention and fullness due to damp and heat, diarrhea, jaundice, cough with lung heat, polydipsia with high fever, hematemesis and non-traumatic hemorrhage due to blood heat, abscess and sore toxin, fetal movement.
Amur Corktree Bark

Amur Corktree Bark

Phellodendri Chinensis Cortex
Functions：Clears heat, dried dampness, drains fire, eliminates steaming, resolves toxin, treats sore. Apply to dysentery due to damp-heat pathogen, jaundice, leukorrhea, pyretic stranguria, beriberi, osteopyrexia, night sweat, emissions, burns and scalds and swelling, eczema and pruritus.
Heaven Ailanthus Root - bark or Bark

Heaven Ailanthus Root - bark or Bark

Ailanthi Cortex
Functions：Clears heat, dries dampness, astringes to stop vaginal discharge, relieves diarrhea, stops bleeding. Apply to vaginal discharge, damp-heat diarrhea, chronic diarrhea, hemafecia, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis.
White Peony Root

White Peony Root

Paeoniae Radix Alba
Functions：Nourishes the blood, regulates menstruation, calms the liver, relieve pain, astringes yin, stops sweating. Apply to thoracic, abdominal and costal pains, abdominal pain due to dysentery, spontaneous perspiration and night sweat, fever with yin deficiency, irregular menstrual periods, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, leukorrhea.
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