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
How Is Yue Ju Wan Categorized?
Yue Ju Wan Functional Groupings
- Primary Category: Regulate the Qi
- Subcategory: Promote the Movement of Qi
Sub Categories Within The Regulate the Qi Category
There Are 4 Formulas In Our Regulate the Qi Category
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).
Conditions and Patterns Potentially Related With Yue Ju Wan

Yue Ju Wan Related Conditions and Patterns
Abdominal PainAcid Reflux Disease (GERD)Chronic CholecystitisDepressionEpigastric PainGallstones (Cholelithiasis)GastritisGeneralized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)MigrainesNauseaPanic AttackPeptic UlcerPlum Pit QiSchizophreniaVomiting
All Conditions
Blood StagnationLiver Blood StagnationLiver Qi StagnationStomach Blood StagnationStomach Food Stagnation
All Patterns
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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