RM190.00
Used for menstrual cramps, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), and menopausal symptoms.
Used orally as a blood purifier ; to manage hypertension, infertility, joint pain, ulcers, anemia, and constipation; and in the prevention and treatment of allergic attacks.
Used orally for the treatment of loss of skin color (de-pigmentation) and psoriasis.
Actions
Tonify blood, activate blood, alleviate pain, regulate menstruation, and moisten intestines.
Indications
A. Insufficiency of blood
It is an essential herb to tonify blood and indicated for all kinds of blood deficiency syndromes, especially for blood deficiency with blood stasis because it is skilled in tonifying blood.
B. Pain syndromes due to blood deficiency, blood stasis and congealing cold
It is indicated for all kinds of pain syndromes caused by blood deficiency, blood stasis and congealing cold with blood stasis because it can tonify blood, activate blood, dispel cold and alleviate pain.
C. Irregular menstruation, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea
It is an essential herb in gynecology and indicated for irregular menstruation, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea because it can tonify blood, activate blood, regulate menstruation and alleviate pain. It is especial in these symptoms due to blood deficiency, blood stasis and cold congealment.
Besides regulating menstruation, it is also indicated for all kinds of syndromes due to blood deficiency and blood stasis before or after delivery.
D. Ulcers and sores
It is indicated for ulcers, especially for ulcer without burst of pus or uncured ulcers due to blood deficiency, because it can promote blood circulation, remove swelling, alleviate pain, tonify blood, improve tissue generation, and it is warm in property but skilled in tonifying blood and healthy qi.
E. Constipation due to intestinal fluid consumption
It is indicated for constipation due to blood deficiency with intestinal dryness, because it can tonify blood and moisten dryness, nourish intestines to smooth stool. It is combined with blood-nourishing, dryness-moistening and stool-smoothing herbs, for instance, it is used with raw He Shou Wu and Huo Ma Ren.
Besides, it is also indicated for cough and dyspnea because it can relieve dyspnea.
Cautions
It is contraindicated in cases of damp-heat stagnating in the middle, lung heat with phlegm fire, and yin deficiency with effulgent yang because it is warm and sweet in properties. In addition, it should be used with cautions in cases of loose stool because it can moisten intestines to smooth stool.
