Sub Categories Within The Invigorate the Blood Category

Invigorate the Blood and Dispel Blood StasisInvigorate the Blood from Traumatic InjuryWarm the Menses and Dispel Blood Stasis

Hong Hua

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Safflower Flower

Usages

• Invigorate blood, unblock menstruation - blood stasis patterns w/amenorrhea, abdominal pain, post partum dizziness, lochioschesis, abdominal masses.
• Dispels blood stasis, alleviates pain - blood stasis wounds and pain, carbuncles, dark purplish erythema, rash, chest pain due to blood stasis.

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Chuan Xiong

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Szechuan Lovage Root

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.

Chi Shao

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Red Peony Root

Usages

• Invigorates blood, dispels stasis (stronger than Mu Dan Pi) - dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, abdominal pain and masses, traumatic pain associated with swelling, early stages of abscesses and boils.
• Clears heat, cools the blood (especially for excess heat in the blood) - for heat entering the blood level with fever, purple tongue, skin blotches, bleeding, gyn issues.
• Clears liver fire - for red swollen, painful eyes.

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Wu Yao

Lindera Root

Usages

• Promotes the movement of Qi, alleviates pain by warming and dispersing - flank, chest, epigastric, abdominal pain, hernia, menstrual pains due to cold constraint and qi stagnation.
• Warms the kidneys - frequent urination or incontinence due to kidney yang deficiency and cold from deficiency of the bladder.

Wu Ling Zhi

Flying Squirrel Feces

Usages

• Disperse blood stasis, alleviate pain - amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, post partum abdominal pain, epigastric pain due to blood stasis.
• Transforms stasis, stop bleeding - uterine bleeding, lochioschesis.
• Childhood nutritional impairment with focal distention.
• Use raw to invigorate blood and dry-fry to stop bleeding.

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Gan Cao

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Licorice Root

Usages

• Tonifies the spleen and augments qi - spleen deficiency w/shortness of breath, fatigue, loose stools (si jun zi tong).
• Qi and/or blood deficiency w/irregular pluse or palpitations (Zhi Gan Cao Tang).
• Moistens the lungs and stops cough - heat/cold in the lungs (Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang).
• Clears heat and toxic fire (raw) - carbuncles, sores, sore throat due to fire toxin (internally or topically).
• Alleviates pain and stops spasms - abdomen or legs (Shao Yao Gan Cao Tang).
• Often used to harmonize and/or moderate characteristics of other herbs.
• Antidote for toxic substances (internally and topically).

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