Ping Gan Liu Qi Yin Wan Dang Gui And Pinellia Combination - TCM Herbal Formula

Names Of Ping Gan Liu Qi Yin Wan

Ping Gan Liu Qi Yin Wan TCM Herbal Formula

English Name: Dang Gui And Pinellia Combination
Pinyin Name: Ping Gan Liu Qi Yin Wan
Alternate Names: Ping Gan Liu Qi Yin, Tang-kuei And Pinellia Formula,
Chinese Character: 平肝流氣飲

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How Is Ping Gan Liu Qi Yin Wan Categorized?

Ping Gan Liu Qi Yin Wan Functional Groupings

Primary Category: Harmonize
Subcategory: Regulate and Harmonize the Liver and Spleen

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Sub Categories Within The Harmonize Category

Harmonize Lesser Yang Stage Disorders Harmonize the Stomach and Intestines Regulate and Harmonize the Liver and Spleen

There Are 14 Formulas In Our Harmonize Category

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How Is Ping Gan Liu Qi Yin Wan Used Clinically?

Ping Gan Liu Qi Yin Wan Usages and Indications

Liver qi stagnation with blood deficiency heat - signs of heat, red eyes, possibly anxiety and/or irritability, etc. along with digestive issues such as gastritis, cirrhosis, cholecystitis, hernia.
Lymphedema from stagnation and deficiency.
Fibrocystic breasts.

Cautions and Contraindications

Pregnancy

Use with caution with pregnancy.

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Conditions and Patterns Potentially Related With Ping Gan Liu Qi Yin Wan

Ping Gan Liu Qi Yin Wan Related Conditions and Patterns

Acid Reflux Disease (GERD)Anxiety Breast Distention Cirrhosis Gallstones (Cholelithiasis)Hepatitis (B or C)Hernia Irritability Liver Disease

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Liver Qi Stagnation Spleen Blood Deficiency

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Ping Gan Liu Qi Yin Wan Has 14Ingredients

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.

Chai Hu

Thorowax Root, Bupleurum

Appears in the Herbs That Release The Exterior Wind Heat category

Usages

Clears shao yang disorders and reduces fever - alternating chills and fever, bitter taste in the mouth, irritability, vomiting, stifling sensation in the chest.
Relieves liver qi stagnation (often used with Bai Shao) - vertigo, menstrual disorders, chest and flank pain, the most common herb to treat stress, irritability, depression, etc.; also for liver and spleen disharmony - bloating, nausea, indigestion, flank pain.
Raises yang qi in spleen and stomach deficiency patterns (often used with Sheng Ma) - prolapsed organ, diarrhea, hemorrhoids.

This formula has cautions, see details

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

Xiang Ru

Aromatic Madder

Appears in the Herbs That Release The Exterior Wind Cold category

Usages

Expels summerheat and transforms dampness
Promotes urination, reduces swelling - edema

This formula has cautions, see details

Zhi Zi

Cape Jasmine Fruit, Gardenia

Appears in the Herbs That Drain Fire category

Usages

Clears heat (Heart and Liver), eliminates irritability - heat patterns with fever, restlessness, insomnia, delirium, stifling sensation in the chest.
Drains damp heat - lin (urinary dysfunction) syndrome due to damp-heat in the lower warmer, damp-heat and constrained liver and gallbladder causing jaundice, damp-heat in the gall bladder and triple heater channels of the face - eyes, nose, sores in the mouth and face.
Cools the blood, stops bleeding - nosebleed, blood in vomit, stool, urine; (needs to partially charred).
Topically for blood stasis due to trauma, reduces swelling.

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.

Ban Xia

Pinellia Rhizome

Appears in the Herbs That Transform Phlegm Cold category

Usages

Dries dampness, transforms cold-phlegm, descends rebellious qi - cough with copious sputum especially due to dampness of spleen.
Harmonizes stomach, stops vomiting due to lingering phlegm-dampness in the stomach.
Dissipates nodules, reduces distension - phlegm in chest or neck or anywhere in the body, focal distention in the chest.

This formula has cautions, see details

Hou Po

Magnolia Bark

Appears in the Aromatic Herbs That Transform Dampness category

Usages

Promotes movement of Qi, transforms dampness, resolves stagnation - dampness in spleen/stomach, food stagnation, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal distention (*important herb for this).
Warms and transforms phlegm and directs rebellious lung Qi downward - wheezing, phlegm with coughing, stifling sensation in the chest.

This formula has cautions, see details

Chen Pi

Tangerine Peel

Appears in the Herbs That Regulate The Qi category

Usages

Regulates Qi, improves transportive function of the spleen, relieves diaphragm - epigastric/abdominal distention, fullness, bloating, belching, nausea, vomiting (promotes movement of qi in general; specifically directing it downward - good for different types of nausea/vomiting).
Important herb for drying dampness and the transformation of phlegm - coughs with stifling sensation in the chest/diaphragm, and copious viscous sputum (qi-level herb).
Prevents stagnation - prevents cloying of tonifying herbs.
Ju Hong is the red part of the tangerine peel - it is more drying and aromatic.

Qing Pi

Green Tangerine Peel

Appears in the Herbs That Regulate The Qi category

Usages

Spreads liver Qi and breaks up stagnation - liver Qi stagnation symptoms such as distention and pain in the chest, breast, and/or hypochondriac regions; hernial pain.
Reduces food stagnation - pain in the epigastrium.
Dries dampness and transforms phlegm - malarial disorders w/phlegm, dampness, and breast abscesses.
Raises blood pressure.

Wu Zhu Yu

Evodia Fruit

Appears in the Herbs That Warm the Interior and Expel Cold category

Usages

Warms the middle, disperses cold, relieves constraint in the liver channel and alleviates pain - headaches, nausea, cold hernia in the liver channel region.
Redirects stomach Qi downwards - due to liver and/or stomach disharmony.
Warms the spleen and expels damp cold, stops diarrhea.
Leads fire downwards - mouth/tongue canker sores (externally applied to canker sores).

Fu Ling

Poria, China Root

Appears in the Herbs That Drain Dampness category

Usages

Promotes urination, drains dampness, transforms phlegm - urinary difficulty, diarrhea, edema, headache, dizziness, greasy tongue coat.
Strengthens the spleen, harmonizes the middle jiao - diarrhea, loss of appetite.
Quiets the heart and calms the spirit - palpitations, insomnia, forgetfulness.

This formula has cautions, see details

Huang Lian

Coptis Rhizome

Appears in the Herbs That Clear Heat and Dry Dampness category

Usages

Drains fire, relieves toxicity - high fever, irritability, disorientation, delirium, painful, red eyes, red tongue, sore throat, boils, carbuncles, abscesses.
Clears heat, drains dampness - for damp-heat in the stomach or intestine, diarrhea or dysenteric disorder, vomiting and/or acid regurgitation due to stomach heat.
Clears heart fire - irritability, insomnia.
Clears heat and stops bleeding - nosebleed, blood in the urine, stool, vomiting due to hot blood.
Topically for red, painful eyes and ulcerations of the tongue and mouth.

Zhi Gan Cao

Honey Fried Licorice Root

Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Qi category

Usages

This preparation increases the qi tonifying aspects of the heart and spleen along with its general harmonizing function within formulas. See Gan Cao for complete information.

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