Da Huang Mu Dan Pi Wan Rhubarb and Moutan Combination - TCM Herbal Formula

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

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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

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Sub Categories Within The Drain Downward Category

Drive Out Excess Water Moisten the Intestines and Unblock the Bowels Purge Heat Accumulation Warm the Yang and Guide Out Accumulation

There Are 3 Formulas In Our Drain Downward Category

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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

Pregnancy

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.

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Conditions and Patterns Potentially Related With Da Huang Mu Dan Pi Wan

Da Huang Mu Dan Pi Wan Related Conditions and Patterns

Abdominal Pain Appendicitis Chronic Cholecystitis Colon Cancer Genital Pain - Swelling Hemorrhoids Inflammatory Bowel Disease Prostatitis Ulcerative Colitis

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Blood Stagnation Large Intestine Blood Stagnation Large Intestine Dryness

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Da Huang Mu Dan Pi Wan Has 5Ingredients

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

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

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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