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

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.

Ge Gen

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Kudzu Root, Pueraria

Usages

• Releases muscles, clears heat - exterior disease in subcutaneous region and muscles (governed by spleen and stomach) - fever, headache, stiffness in the back and the neck.
• Nourishes fluids, alleviates thirst - stomach heat, externally-contracted heat.
• Vents measles - accelerates rash at early stages.
• Alleviates diarrhea - diarrhea or dysenterial disorders due to heat; may be used for spleen deficiency diarrhea if combined with other herbs.
• Alleviates symptoms of hypertension - headaches, dizziness, tinnitus.

Huang Qi

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Astragalus Root

Usages

• Tonifies spleen qi - lack of appetite, fatigue, diarrhea.
• Raises yang qi of spleen and stomach - prolapse of uterus, stomach, rectum, uterine bleeding.
• Augments the wei qi and stabilizes the exterior - deficiency w/spontaneous sweating, frequent colds or shortness of breath.
• Tonify qi and blood due to loss of blood - postpartum fever.
• Edema from deficiency.
• Promote discharge of pus, generate flesh - sores due to deficiency.

Mo Yao

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Myrrh

Usages

• Invigorate blood, dispel blood stasis, reduces swelling, alleviate pain - trauma, sores, carbuncles, swellings, abdominal masses, painful obstruction, chest pain, abdominal pain, amenorrhea.
• Promotes healing of chronic non-healing sores.

This formula has cautions, see details

Ren Shen

Ginseng Root

Usages

• Strongly tonify yuan qi - extreme collapse of qi, shortness of breath, cold limbs, profuse sweating, weak pulse (often used alone for this condition after severe blood loss).
• Tonify lung qi - wheezing, shortness of breath, w/kidneys failing to grasp the qi.
• Strengthen the middle warmer - lethargy, no appetite, chronic diarrhea, prolapse of organs, distended chest/abdomen.
• Generates fluids, stops thirst - xiao ke, damaged fluid due to high dever and profuse sweating.
• Benefits heart qi, calms the spirit - palpitations, anxiety, insomnia, poor memory, restlessness due to qi and/or blood deficiency.

This formula has cautions, see details

Tian Ma

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Gastrodia Root

Usages

• Calms the liver, extinguishes liver wind from either heat or cold patterns - spasms, tremors, headache, epilepsy, numbness, dizziness, wind-stroke, childhood convulsion, can be used for problems due to heat or blood deficiency.
• Extinguishes wind, alleviates pain - headache, dizziness, migraine headaches that occur with wind-phlegm patterns, hemiplegia, dizziness, numbness.
• Disperse painful obstruction due to wind phlegm - numbness and pain of the lower back and extremities.