Harmonize Blood
In a nutshell, the reasons for adopting the above four steps to harmonize Blood in bleeding are
as follows:
- Stop bleeding: to arrest blood loss
- Eliminate stasis: to prevent Blood from congealing
- Calm Blood: to prevent recurrence of bleeding
- Nourish Blood: to restore the Blood after the blood loss.
These four treatment aims to harmonize Blood are all the more important in gynaecology as
Blood is obviously central to all women's gynaecological complaints.
Stop Bleeding
Examples of herbs that stop bleeding especially from the uterus are:
Pu Huang Pollen Typhae
Xian He Cao Herba Agrimoniae pilosae
Di Yu Radix Sanguisorbae officinalis
Qian Cao Gen Radix Rubiae cordifoliae
Ai Ye Folium ArtemisiaeEliminate Stasis
Eliminating stasis is necessary to prevent Blood from congealing when stopping-bleeding herbs
are used.
As the proper movement and circulation of Blood is extremely important to women's physiology
and stopping-bleeding herbs may have a tendency to congeal Blood, herbs which simultaneously
stop bleeding and move Blood are particularly useful. These are:
Pu Huang Pollen Typhae
San Qi Radix Notoginseng
Qian Cao Gen Radix Rubiae cordifoliaeApart from these three, many other moving-Blood herbs are used in menorrhagia, for example
Chuan Xiong Radix Ligustici wallichii, Yi Mu Cao Herba Leonori heterophylli, Hong Hua Flos
Carthami tinctorii and Tao Ren Semen Persicae.