Wen Jing Wan Warm the Menses Formula - TCM Herbal Formula

• 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.

• Incompatible with Li Lu
• Avoid in cases of yang deficiency and cold in the middle jiao - diarrhea, cold sensation in the stomach.

• 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.

• Incompatible with Wu Tou.

• 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.

• 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.

• Tonifies the middle warmer, augments the qi - lack of appetite, fatigue, diarrhea, vomiting, any spleen qi deficiency issues, prolapse of uterus, stomach, rectum.
• Tonifies the lungs - lung deficiency w/chronic cough, shortness of breath, copious sputum due to spleen qi deficiency.
• Nourishes fluids - xiao ke, thirst due to injury to fluids.
• Often used with herbs that release the exterior when patient has significant qi deficiency.

• 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.

• 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).

• Avoid with excess dampness, nausea, vomiting.
• Incompatible with Gan Sui, Da Ji, Yuan Hua, Hai Zao (although used in some formulas with Hai Zao).
• If taken for long periods of time, may cause hypertension and/or edema.

• Warms the middle and expels cold - warms spleen and stomach both in conditions of excess due to externally contacted cold, as well as cold from deficiency due to yang qi deficiency.
• Rescues devastated yang, expels interior cold - very weak pulse and cold limbs.
• Warms the lungs and transforms phlegm - lung cold with thin, watery or white sputum.
• Warms the channels, stops bleeding - hemorrhage of various types, especially for uterine bleeding (must be due to cold - chronic and pale in color, with cold limbs, soggy pulse).

• 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.

• Moistens the lungs, stops cough - dry cough, coughing blood.
• Augments stomach yin, generates fluids - dry tongue and mouth.
• Clears heat and eliminates irritability due to yin deficiency or a warm-febrile disease in the ying level - particularly when symptoms are worse at night.
• Moistens the intestines - constipation.

• Clears Heat (excess and deficient), Cools Blood. Nose bleed, bloody sputum or vomit, subcutaneous bleeding, frequent and profuse menses due to heat in the Blood.
• Clear Deficient Fire. Yin deficiency patterns such as steaming bone disorder after a warm-febrile disease particularly those without sweating.
• Clears Liver Blood Stasis. Amenorrhea, abdominal masses, bruises.
• Clears Rising Liver Fire. Headache, eye pain, flank pain, flushing, dysmenorrhea.
• Drains Pus, Reduces Swelling. Used topically for non-draining sores. Used internally for intestinal abscess.

Avoid in Pregnancy, Excess Menses due to Blood moving action.

• Warms the kidneys and fortifies yang - aversion to cold, cold limbs, weak back, impotence, frequent urination; also for waning of spleen and kidney yang with abdominal pain and cold, reduced appetite, diarrhea; wheezing due to failure of the kidneys to grasp the Qi.
• Leads floating yang back to its source - upward floating of deficient yang; flushed face, wheezing, severe sweating (like oil), weak and cold lower extremities, deficient and rootless pulse (false heat-true cold, or heat above-cold below).
• Disperses deep cold, warms the channels, alleviates pain due to cold causing qi or blood stasis; amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea.
• Encourages generation of Qi and blood.

• Antagonist with Chi Shi Zhi

• 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).

• Invigorate blood, break up stasis - used topically and internally for traumatic pain, and to speed healing process of chronic sores.
• Promotes movement of Qi - liver qi stagnation, menstrual pain, chest, flank pain.
• Clears heat, cools blood - hot phlegm obstructs heart orifices with symptoms like anxiety, agitation, seizures.
• Benefits gallbladder - jaundice.

• Avoid during Pregnancy.