Jiao Ai Wan Ass-Hide Gelatin and Mugwort Formula - TCM Herbal Formula

Names Of Jiao Ai Wan

Jiao Ai Wan TCM Herbal Formula

English Name: Ass-Hide Gelatin and Mugwort Formula
Pinyin Name: Jiao Ai Wan
Alternate Names: Xiong Gui Jiao Ai Tang, Chiung Kuei Jiao Ai Tang, Jiao Ai Wan, Qiong Gui Jiao Ai Tang
Chinese Character: 膠艾丸

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How Is Jiao Ai Wan Categorized?

Jiao Ai Wan Functional Groupings

Primary Category: Stop Bleeding
Subcategory: Tonify and Stop Bleeding

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Sub Categories Within The Stop Bleeding Category

Clear Heat and Stop Bleeding Tonify and Stop Bleeding

There Are 3 Formulas In Our Stop Bleeding Category

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How Is Jiao Ai Wan Used Clinically?

Jiao Ai Wan Usages and Indications

Uterine bleeding/spotting.
Abdominal/Uterine/Ovarian cramping.
Irregular menstruation, history of miscarriage - due to spleen failing to regulate the blood.

Cautions and Contraindications

Avoid in cases of beng lou (flooding and spotting) when caused by heat or accompanied with strong heat signs.

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Conditions and Patterns Potentially Related With Jiao Ai Wan

Jiao Ai Wan Related Conditions and Patterns

Endometriosis Miscarriages Uterine Bleeding

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Liver Blood Deficiency Spleen Blood Deficiency

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Jiao Ai Wan Has 7Ingredients

Ai Ye

Mugwort Leaf, Moxa

Appears in the Herbs That Stop Bleeding category

Usages

Warms the womb and stops bleeding - useful in cases of prolonged menstrual bleeding and uterine bleeding due to cold from deficiency patterns.
Warms the womb and pacifies the fetus - restless fetus syndrome, lower abdominal pain (menstrual), vaginal bleeding as in threatened miscarriage, infertility due to cold womb.
Used often as moxibustion for tonification and the movement of qi stagnation.

Bai Shao

White Peony Root

Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Blood category

Usages

Nourishes the blood and regulates menstrual problems due to blood deficiency (pale, lusterless complexion and nails) - menstrual dysfunction, vaginal discharge, uterine bleeding - very common herb for gynecological disorders (Si Wu Tang).
Calms liver yang, alleviates pain from constrained liver qi or disharmony between the liver and the spleen due to liver yang rising - cramping and spasms (limbs and abdomen), abdominal pain from dysentery, headache and dizziness.
Preserves yin, adjusts ying and wei levels - vaginal discharge and spermatorrhea, exterior wind-cold from deficiency with continuous sweating, spontaneous sweating, night sweats.

This formula has cautions, see details

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.

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.

E Jiao

Donkey-Hide Glue, Gelatin

Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Blood category

Usages

Tonify blood - dizziness, sallow complexion, palpitations.
Stops bleeding - any type.
Nourish and moisten yin - irritability and insomnia after febrile disease, dry lung coughs due to yin deficiency or consumption.

Gan Cao

Licorice Root

Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Qi category

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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Shu Di Huang

Rehmannia, Chinese Foxglove Root

Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Blood category

Usages

This is the root of Sheng Di Huang (steamed and dried, or soaked in red wine and dried).
Tonify blood for blood deficiency with dizziness, pallid complexion, palpitations, insomnia, irregular menses, uterine bleeding, post partum bleeding.
Nourish yin - kidney yin deficiency with nightsweats, xiao ke, steaming bone disorder, nocturnal emissions.