Folio Bound VIEWS - Chinese Medicine

Treatment principle The treatment principle followed was to move Liver-Blood and
eliminate stasis in the uterus. This patient was treated only with herbs.

Herbal treatment The formula used was a variation of Ge Xia Zhu Yu Tang Eliminating
Stasis below the Diaphragm Decoction:

Dang Gui Radix Angelicae sinensis 9 g

Chuan Xiong Radix Ligustici wallichii 3 g

Chi Shao Radix Paeoniae rubrae 6 g

Hong Hua Flos Carthami tinctorii 6 g

Tao Ren Semen Persicae 6 g

Wu Ling Zhi Excrementum Trogopteri 4 g

Yan Hu Suo Rhizoma Corydalis yanhusuo 6 g

Xiang Fu Rhizoma Cyperi rotundi 3 g

Zhi Ke Fructus Citri aurantii 6 g

Wu Yao Radix Linderae strychnifoliae 6 g

Mu Dan Pi Cortex Moutan radicis 6 g

Gan Cao Radix Glycyrrhizae uralensis 3 g

Yi Yi Ren Semen Coicis lachryma jobi 20 g

E Zhu Rhizoma Curcumae zedoariae 9 g

Explanation All the herbs but the last two form the Ge Xia Zhu Yu Tang with the
dosages of some of the herbs reduced.

Yi Yi Ren was added to soften the mass.

E Zhu was added to "break" Blood.

This formula was given for 9 months, with slight variations, and

produced a dispersal of the myoma.

Case History 17.2

Abdominal Masses: Stasis of Liver-Blood-Female, Age 27

A 27-year-old woman had been diagnosed as having a large cyst on one ovary (7.5 cm in
diameter), a myoma between the uterus and the ovary, and endometriosis. This caused her some
abdominal pain and discomfort. The abdomen felt hard on palpation. Her periods were painful,
sometimes heavy and sometimes scanty, sometimes stopping and starting, and the menstrual
blood was dark with clots. She had an excessive vaginal discharge, yellow in colour. Her tongue
was Pale-Purple, Swollen and with a sticky coating all over which was yellow on the root. Her
pulse was Slippery, slightly Firm (Wiry at the Deep level), Deep, and Weak on both Rear
positions.

Diagnosis The ovarian cyst and myoma were due to stasis of Blood, but there was
also Damp-Heat in the Lower Burner contributing to the stagnation in