1.Agility in making formulas
2.Exact dosage
3.Cleanliness and sanitation
4.Easier storage and convenient carrying
Properties: Pungent and sweet in flavour, warm in nature, it is tropistic to the heart, liver and spleen channels. Being sweet, warm and moist in property, this herb serves function of replenishing blood; and being pungent, warm and volatile in nature, it also can promote blood circulation, as a main herb for enriching blood and promoting the circulation of blood regulate menstruation and relieve pain. It is often used to treat any syndromes of blood-deficiency, various kinds of pain due to blood stasis, menoxenia, sores, ulcers, ulcers, swellings and traumatic ecchymoma, etc. It also functions in nourishing blood and lubricating the bowel, serving for constipation due to blood deficiency and dryness in the bowel.
Effects: Tonifying blood, promoting blood circulation, regulating menstruation, alleviating pain, and lubricating the bowels to relieve constipation.
Indications:
1. For any syndromes of blood deficiency, it is often used with Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, Radix Paeoniae Alba and Rhizome Ligustici Chuanxiong to nourish the blood, as in Decoction of Four Ingredients (Siwu Tang)
.2. For menoxenia, menorrhalyia and amenorrhea in the type of blood deficiency, it is used together with Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, Radix Polygoni Multiflori, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Caulis Spatholobi, etc. to replenish blood and regulate menstruation; for those in the type of blood stasis, it is used with herbs for promoting blood circulation and for regulation menstruation, such as Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong, Semen Persicae, Flos Carthami, etc. ; and for those in the type of deficiency-cold, it is used with herbs for warming channels and dispelling cold pathogen, such as Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Ramulus Cinnamomi, Fructus Euodiae, etc.
3. For chest and abdominal pain due to blood stasis, it is often used with herbs for resolving blood stasis to relieve pain, such as Resina Olibani, Myrrha, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae; for obstruction of the heart channel manifested as oppressive pain in the chest, it can be used Flos Carthami, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhiz, Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong, Lignum Dalbergiae Odoriferae, etc.
4. For traumatic ecchymoma and pain, and for sores, carbuncles and swelling, it is often used with herbs for promoting blood circulation and tissue regeneration and relieving pain, such as Resina Olibani, Myrrha. Squama Manitis, etc.
Besides, it is also used with Radix Paeoniae Alba, Fructus Cannabis, etc. to treat constipation due to blood deficiency and dryness in the bowel.
