Folio Bound VIEWS - Chinese Medicine

pulse. Besides this, there is an underlying deficiency of Kidney-Yang as

shown by the Slow and Weak pulse on the left-Rear position, Pale and

Swollen tongue, dizziness, cold feeling and backache and some

deficiency of Qi and Blood as evidenced by the Choppy pulse.

Treatment principle The treatment principle adopted was to tonify and warm Kidney-Yang,
scatter internal Cold, nourish Blood and stop pain. She was treated with
both acupuncture and herbs.

Acupuncture The acupuncture points, used with even method to scatter Cold and
reinforcing method to tonify the Kidneys and nourish Blood, were
selected from the following:

LU-7 Lieque and KI-6 Zhaohai to open the Directing Vessel, regulate

Qi and Blood in the uterus and stop pain.

ST-29 Guilai, with moxa, to regulate Blood, scatter Cold and stop pain.

Ren-6 Qihai and Ren-4 Guanyuan, with moxa, to tonify Qi and Blood

and tonify Kidney-Yang.

BL-23 Shenshu, with needle and moxa, to tonify and warm

Kidney-Yang.

SP-6 Sanyinjiao and ST-36 Zusanli to tonify Qi and Blood.

Herbal Treatment The formula used was a variation of Ai Fu Nuan Gong Wan
Artemisia-Cyperus Warming the Uterus Pill:

Ai Ye Folium Artemisiae 9 g

Wu Zhu Yu Fructus Evodiae rutaecarpae 4.5 g

Rou Gui Cortex Cinnamomi cassiae 3 g

Xiang Fu Rhizoma Cyperi rotundi 6 g

Dang Gui Radix Angelicae sinensis 9 g

Chuan Xiong Radix Ligustici wallichii 6 g

Bai Shao Radix Paeoniae albae 9 g

Huang Qi Radix Astragali membranacei 6 g

Sheng Di Huang Radix Rehmanniae glutinosae 9 g

Xu Duan Radix Dipsaci 6 g

Wu Yao Radix Linderae strychnifoliae 6 g

Yan Hu Suo Rhizoma Corydalis yanhusuo 6 g

Explanation The first ten herbs constitute the root formula which scatters Cold,
warms the Uterus, tonifies Qi and Blood and tonifies and warms
Kidney-Yang.

Wu Yao and Yan Hu Suo move Qi and Blood and stop pain.