Ba Wei Dai Xia Fang Eight Herb Powder for Vaginal Discharge - TCM Herbal Formula

Names Of Ba Wei Dai Xia Fang

Ba Wei Dai Xia Fang TCM Herbal Formula

English Name: Eight Herb Powder for Vaginal Discharge
Pinyin Name: Ba Wei Dai Xia Fang
Alternate Names: Tang-Kuei Eight Herb Formula, Dang Gui Eight Herb Formula, Pa Wei Tai Hsia Fang, Eight Taste Discharging Formula

All Formulas

How Is Ba Wei Dai Xia Fang Categorized?

Ba Wei Dai Xia Fang Functional Groupings

Primary Category: Clear Heat
Subcategory: Clear Damp-Heat

All Functions

Sub Categories Within The Clear Heat Category

Clear Heat and Relieve Toxicity Clear Heat From Deficiency Clear Heat From The Nutritive Level and Cool The Blood Clear Heat From The Organs Clear Heat From The Qi Level Relieve Summerheat

There Are 17 Formulas In Our Clear Heat Category

An Gong Niu Huang Wan Ba Wei Dai Xia Fang Bao Ji Wan Chu Kou Wei Wan Fu Fang Qing Dai Wan Fu Fang Zhen Zhu An Chuang Wan Gan Mao Ling Huang Lian Shang Qing Wan Long Dan Xie Gan Wan Qing Hao Bie Jia Wan Qing Shu Yi Qi Tang Wan Wu Ji Bai Feng Wan Xian Fang Huo Ming Yin Wan Xiang Lian Wan Xie Xin Wan Yi Zi Wan Yin Chen Hao Wan

How Is Ba Wei Dai Xia Fang Used Clinically?

Ba Wei Dai Xia Fang Usages and Indications

Clearing damp heat in the lower warmer, particularly with underlying blood deficiency - vaginal disharge, vaginal itching, vaginal inflammation along with constipation, possibly anemia, low back pain, and/or abdominal pain. Leukorrhea may be yellow, white or red.
Gonorrhea, syphilis.

Conditions and Patterns Potentially Related With Ba Wei Dai Xia Fang

Ba Wei Dai Xia Fang Related Conditions and Patterns

Genital Pain, Swelling Itching Leukorrhea Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)

All Conditions

Bladder Damp Heat

All Patterns

Ba Wei Dai Xia Fang And Related Formulas From Our Store

Ba Wei Dai Xia Fang In Our Store

Ba Wei Dai Xia Fang - Tang Kuei Eight Herb Formula

Store Formulas

Ba Wei Dai Xia Fang Has 8Ingredients

Tu Fu Ling

Glabrous Greenbrier Rhizome, Smilax

Appears in the Herbs That Clear Heat and Relieve Toxicity category

Usages

Relieves toxicity, eliminates dampness - joint pain, lin syndrome, jaundice.
Clears damp-heat from the skin - recurrent ulcers or hot skin lesions, syphilis.

This formula has cautions, see details

Jin Yin Hua

Honeysuckle Flower, Lonicera

Appears in the Herbs That Clear Heat and Relieve Toxicity category

Usages

Clear heat, relieve toxic fire - hot, painful swellings in the throat, breast, eyes; intestinal abscesses.
Expel wind-heat - fever, aversion to wind, sore throat, headache; also for summer-heat.
Clear damp heat from the lower jiao - dysentery, lin syndrome.
Stem, Ren Dong Teng, is used for similar functions - abscesses, sores, damp-heat bi syndromes.

Dang Gui

Chinese Angelica Root

Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Blood category

Usages

Tonifies the blood, regulates menses - pallid, ashen complexion, tinnitus, blurred vision, palpitations, irregular menses, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea.
Invigorates/harmonizes the blood, disperses cold - important herb to stop pain due to blood stasis - abdominal pain, trauma, carbuncles due to blood stasis, chronic bi.
Moistens dry intestines due to blood deficiency.
Reduces swellings, expels pus, generates flesh - sores.

Chuan Xiong

Szechuan Lovage Root

Appears in the Herbs That Invigorate Blood category

Usages

Invigorate blood, promote movement of Qi - any blood stasis pattern, important for gynecological issues (amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, difficult labor, lochioschesis).
Expels wind and alleviates pain - headache (temporal, vertex), dizziness, painful obstructions, skin issues.
Headache - moves qi upward and alleviates pain; headaches due to wind, heat, cold, blood deficiency.

Fu Ling

Poria, China Root

Appears in the Herbs That Drain Dampness category

Usages

Promotes urination, drains dampness, transforms phlegm - urinary difficulty, diarrhea, edema, headache, dizziness, greasy tongue coat.
Strengthens the spleen, harmonizes the middle jiao - diarrhea, loss of appetite.
Quiets the heart and calms the spirit - palpitations, insomnia, forgetfulness.

This formula has cautions, see details

Bian Xu

Knotweed, Polygonoum

Appears in the Herbs That Drain Dampness category

Usages

Clears damp-heat in the bladder - promotes urination, damp-heat lin.
Expels parasites - intestinal parasites.
Damp skin lesions - itching.

Chen Pi

Tangerine Peel

Appears in the Herbs That Regulate The Qi category

Usages

Regulates Qi, improves transportive function of the spleen, relieves diaphragm - epigastric/abdominal distention, fullness, bloating, belching, nausea, vomiting (promotes movement of qi in general; specifically directing it downward - good for different types of nausea/vomiting).
Important herb for drying dampness and the transformation of phlegm - coughs with stifling sensation in the chest/diaphragm, and copious viscous sputum (qi-level herb).
Prevents stagnation - prevents cloying of tonifying herbs.
Ju Hong is the red part of the tangerine peel - it is more drying and aromatic.

Da Huang

Rhubarb

Appears in the Herbs That Drain Downward category

Usages

Drains heat and purges accumulations - high fever, profuse sweating, thirst, constipation, abdominal distention and pain, delirium, yellow tongue coating, full pulse which indicates intestinal heat excess or yang ming stage illness.
Drains heat from the blood - blood in the stool from bleeding hemorrhoids or heat in the intestine; vomting blood or nosebleed accompanied by constipation; painful eyes or fire toxin sores due to heat in the blood level.
Drains damp-heat via the stool - jaundice, dysentery, lin syndrome.
Invigorates the blood and dispels blood stasis - amenorrhea, abdominal masses, fixed pain due to blood stasis (recent and long-term blood stasis).
Clears heat and reduces fire toxicity - for burns, hot skin.

This formula has cautions, see details

Where Do I Go Next?

TCM Formulas Formula Functions An Shen Bu Xin Wan Ba Zhen Wan Individual Herbs Formula Store TCM Patterns All Conditions TCM Theory

Recent Questions From Our Forum...

Have questions about ba wei dai xia fang? Or want to discuss treatment techniques? You may reach us and our community of practitioners by using our forums