Yue Ju Wan Escape Restraint Pill - TCM Herbal Formula | Chinese Medicine Theory

Names Of Yue Ju Wan

Yue Ju Wan TCM Herbal Formula

English Name: Escape Restraint Pill
Pinyin Name: Yue Ju Wan
Alternate Names: Yue Chu Wan, Xiong Zhu Wan, Cyperus and Atractylodes Formula, Stagnation Relieving Pill
Chinese Character: 越鞠丸

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How Is Yue Ju Wan Categorized?

Yue Ju Wan Functional Groupings

Primary Category: Regulate the Qi
Subcategory: Promote the Movement of Qi

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Sub Categories Within The Regulate the Qi Category

Direct Rebellious Qi Downward Promote the Movement of Qi

There Are 4 Formulas In Our Regulate the Qi Category

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How Is Yue Ju Wan Used Clinically?

Yue Ju Wan Usages and Indications

An important formula for plum pit qi and related issues arising from qi stagnation (from many factors) - an oppressive sensation in the chest and/or diaphgram, gerd, reflux, indigestion, nausea, belching with a fetid odor.
Gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, intercostal neuralgia, cholecystitis, cholelithiasis.
Infectious hepatitis.
Migraines when the underlying factor is that of stagnation.
Besides a range of digestive issues, the formula may be used for a wide range of psychiatric conditions including depression, schizophrenia, panic disorder, etc. when the underlying factor is chiefly stagnation.

Cautions and Contraindications

Generally should be avoided in cases where the issues are arising from predominately deficiency syndromes (weakness, loose stools, no appetite).

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Xiang Fu

Nut Grass Rhizome

Appears in the Herbs That Regulate The Qi category

Usages

Spreads and regulates the Qi, soothes the liver - hypochondriac pain, epigastric distention, disharmony between the liver and the spleen.
Regulates menses, alleviates pain (by resolving liver qi stagnation) - dysmenorrhea, irregular menses.

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.

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

Cang Zhu

Atractylodes

Appears in the Aromatic Herbs That Transform Dampness category

Usages

Strongly dries dampness, strengthens spleen - low appetite, diarrhea, epigastric distention, fatigue, vomiting, greasy tongue coat.
Expels wind-damp-cold (bi-syndrome) in extremities.
Clears damp-heat from lower burner (combine with clear-heat herbs, however, as this has a warm nature (for example, Er Miao San) - vaginal discharge, swollen and sore joints.
Induces sweating, release the exterior.
Improves vision.

Shen Qu

Medicated Leaven

Appears in the Herbs That Relieve Food Stagnation category

Usages

Reduces food stagnation, strengthens stomach - stomach cold with food stagnation or accumulation, with epigastric and abdominal fullness or distention, lack of appetite, borborygmus, and diarrhea.
Aids in mineral digestion and absorption.