Names Of Da Huang Mu Dan Pi Wan

Da Huang Mu Dan Pi Wan TCM Herbal Formula
- English Name: Rhubarb and Moutan Combination
- Pinyin Name: Da Huang Mu Dan Pi Wan
- Alternate Names: Da Huang Mu Dan Pi Tang, Decoction of Rhubarb and Moutan Bark
How Is Da Huang Mu Dan Pi Wan Categorized?
Da Huang Mu Dan Pi Wan Functional Groupings
- Primary Category: Drain Downward
- Subcategory: Purge Heat Accumulation
Sub Categories Within The Drain Downward Category
Drive Out Excess WaterMoisten the Intestines and Unblock the BowelsPurge Heat AccumulationWarm the Yang and Guide Out Accumulation
There Are 3 Formulas In Our Drain Downward Category
How Is Da Huang Mu Dan Pi Wan Used Clinically?
Da Huang Mu Dan Pi Wan Usages and Indications
- Breaks up heat, moves blood stagnation and reduces swelling, release through the bowels - appendicitis, lower abdominal distension with pain, intestinal abscesses, hemorrhoids.
- Post surgical infections, particularly in the colon and/or lower warmer.
- Pelvic inflammatory disease.
- Groin pain relieved by flexing hip and without urinary difficulty (but with symptoms similar to a UTI).
Cautions and Contraindications
- Avoid during pregnancy.
- As this formula will cause looser stools use with caution in deficient and/or elderly patients.
- Used for general appendicitis - avoid in infant appendicitis, or appendicitis with necrosis, peritonitis and/or parasites.
Conditions and Patterns Potentially Related With Da Huang Mu Dan Pi Wan

Da Huang Mu Dan Pi Wan Related Conditions and Patterns
Abdominal PainAppendicitisChronic CholecystitisColon CancerGenital Pain - SwellingHemorrhoidsInflammatory Bowel DiseaseProstatitisUlcerative Colitis
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Blood StagnationLarge Intestine Blood StagnationLarge Intestine Dryness
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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
Mang Xiao
Glauber's Salt
Appears in the Herbs That Drain Downward category
Usages
- Purges accumulations, guides out stagnation - heat in the stomach and intestines with constipation; moistens dryness and softens hardness.
- Clears heat, reduces swelling - red, swollen, painful eyes, mouth, and/or throat; red, swollen skin lesions including breast problems.
This formula has cautions, see details
Mu Dan Pi
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Tree Peony Root Cortex
Appears in the Herbs That Cool The Blood category
Usages
- Clears Heat (excess and deficient), Cools Blood. Nose bleed, bloody sputum or vomit, subcutaneous bleeding, frequent and profuse menses due to heat in the Blood.
- Clear Deficient Fire. Yin deficiency patterns such as steaming bone disorder after a warm-febrile disease particularly those without sweating.
- Clears Liver Blood Stasis. Amenorrhea, abdominal masses, bruises.
- Clears Rising Liver Fire. Headache, eye pain, flank pain, flushing, dysmenorrhea.
- Drains Pus, Reduces Swelling. Used topically for non-draining sores. Used internally for intestinal abscess.
This formula has cautions, see details
Tao Ren
Peach Seed
Appears in the Herbs That Invigorate Blood category
Usages
- Breaks up blood stasis (important herb) - menstrual disorders, abdominal pain/masses, trauma, flank pain, lung abscess, intestinal abscess.
- Moistens intestines, unblock bowels - constipation due to dry intestines.
This formula has cautions, see details
Dong Kui Zi
Musk Mallow Seeds
Appears in the Herbs That Drain Dampness category
Usages
- Promotes urination - lin syndromes (hot, xue, stone), edema without lin issues, constipation.
- Benefits the breasts - insufficient lactation, painful swollen breasts, breast abscess.
- Moisten and unblocks the bowels.
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