Names Of Jiang Dan Gu Chun Wan

Jiang Dan Gu Chun Wan TCM Herbal Formula
- English Name: Contribute To Youthfulness Pills
- Pinyin Name: Jiang Dan Gu Chun Wan
- Alternate Names: Jiang Dan Gu Chun Pian, CholestAssure
- Chinese Character: 將旦故春
How Is Jiang Dan Gu Chun Wan Categorized?
Jiang Dan Gu Chun Wan Functional Groupings
- Primary Category: Expel Dampness
- Subcategory: Clear Damp-Heat
Sub Categories Within The Expel Dampness Category
Clear Damp-HeatDispel Wind-DampnessPromote Urination and Leach out DampnessTransform Damp TurbidityWarm and Transform Water and Dampness
There Are 21 Formulas In Our Expel Dampness Category
How Is Jiang Dan Gu Chun Wan Used Clinically?
Jiang Dan Gu Chun Wan Usages and Indications
- For high cholesterol, generally focuses on strengthening metabolism, transforming dampness, tonifying spleen qi, and mildly moving blood stasis in Chinese Medicine terms.
Conditions and Patterns Potentially Related With Jiang Dan Gu Chun Wan

Jiang Dan Gu Chun Wan Related Conditions and Patterns
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Jiang Dan Gu Chun Wan Has 12Ingredients
Shan Zha
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Hawthorn Fruit
Appears in the Herbs That Relieve Food Stagnation category
Usages
- Reduces and moves food stagnation outward - accumulation of meat and/or greasy foods with distention, pain, diarrhea.
- Transforms blood stasis, dissipates clumps - post-partum abdominal pain, hernial disorder.
- Stops diarrhea (when partially charred).
- Hypertension.
Gou Qi Zi
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Chinese Wolfberry Fruit
Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Blood category
Usages
- Nourish and tonify liver and kidney - yin and/or blood deficiency w/sore back and legs, low grade abdominal pain, impotence, nocturnal emission, xiao ke; neutral nature - commonly used for liver and kidney deficiency.
- Benefits the essence and brightens the eyes - essence and blood are unable to nourish eyes, dizziness, blurred vision, diminished acuity.
- Enrich yin and moisten the lungs - consumptive cough.
Ju Hua
Chrysanthemum Flower
Appears in the Herbs That Release The Exterior Wind Heat category
Usages
- Disperses wind, clears heat (bitter, cold) - headache, fever.
- Clears liver and the eyes (sweet, cold) - wind-heat in the liver channel manifesting with red, painful, dry eyes or excessive tearing, or yin deficiency of the kidneys and liver with floaters, blurry vision, or dizziness.
This formula has cautions, see details
Kun Bu
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Kelp
Appears in the Herbs That Cool and Transform Phlegm Heat category
Usages
- Reduces phlegm, softens hardness - nodules in the neck, fullness in the chest due to phlegm.
- Promotes urination, reduces swelling - lower extremity edema (adjunctive herb).
He Shou Wu
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Polygonum, Fleeceflower Root
Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Blood category
Usages
- Tonifies liver and kidney, nourishes blood, augments essence - yin and/or blood deficiency w/dizziness, blurred vision, prematurely grey hair, weakness in the lower back and knees, sore limbs, insomnia, nocturnal emission, spermatorrhea, vaginal discharge; neither cold, drying, nor too cloying.
- Relieves toxic fire - carbuncles, sores, scrofula, neck lumps.
- Moistens intestines - constipation associated with blood deficiency.
- Expels wind from skin by nourishing the blood.
- Chronic malaria w/qi and blood deficiency.
Yi Mu Cao
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Chinese Motherwort
Appears in the Herbs That Invigorate Blood category
Usages
- Invigorates blood and regulates menses for gynecological issues - PMS, abdominal pain, irregular menses, abdominal masses, infertility, post partum abdominal pain w/lochioschesis, stasis from blood deficiency.
- Promotes urination and reduces swelling - acute systemic edema.
This formula has cautions, see details
Hong Hua
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Safflower Flower
Appears in the Herbs That Invigorate Blood category
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.
This formula has cautions, see details
Huang Jing
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Siberian Solomon Seal Rhizome
Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Qi category
Usages
- Tonify spleen qi and yin - with poor appetite, fatigue, dry mouth, loss of taste, dry stool, dry red tongue.
- Moistens the lungs - dry cough, little sputum due to lung qi and yin deficiency.
- Tonify kidneys, strengthen jing - lower back pain/weakness, lightheadedness.
- Xiao Ke.
Ze Xie
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Water Plantain Root
Appears in the Herbs That Drain Dampness category
Usages
- Promotes urination, drains damp-heat in the lower burner - urinary difficulty, edema, diarrhea.
- Drains deficient kidney fire - heat signs, dizziness, tinnitus.
Dang Gui
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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
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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.
Wu Ling Zhi
Flying Squirrel Feces
Appears in the Herbs That Invigorate Blood category
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.
This formula has cautions, see details
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