Blood stagnation Flashcards
What foods are helpful for Blood stasis?
Neutral to warming
Pungent (mildy spicy) and salty (for softening hardness or masses)
What diet would you suggest for blood stagnation?
- Light and mildy spicy foods
- foods cooked by stir fry, poaching, steaming
- fibre through more vegetables, less carbs and meat
- keeping sugar and fruit away from main meals
- Avoiding dairy with meat
- Avoiding too many protein rich foods with easily digestible ones.
What foods are beneficial for Qi stagnation?
Vegetables: shallot, leak, chives, garlic, eggplant, seaweed, fungi, onion and mustard greens
Fruit: peach
Legumes and nuts: adzuki bean, chestnut
Drinks, spices and condiments: turmeric, ginger, basil, cayenne, nutmeg, oregano, rosemary, thyme, white pepper, red wine, vinegar
Meat / seafood: crab, jellyfish, seaweeds, mussels, calm, abalone, hawthorn
Herbs: lotus root, cinnamon bark, rose bud, coix seeds, hawthorn fruit, chinese Angelica root
What foods are non-beneficial to Blood stagnation?
Cold, raw foods, refrigerated food
Alcohol, excessive caffeine
Food colouring, preservatives, sugar
Cheese, eggs, ice cream, cream, red meats, margarine, nuts, pizza, hot chips
Spicy food
What herbs are for Blood stagnation?
Chuan Xiong
Niu Xi
What herbal formulas are for blood stagnation?
Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang
Wen Jing Tang
Huai Hua San
What is Chuan Xiong?
LIGUSTICUM CHUANXIONG
What is the collection and processing of Chuan Xiong?
Collected when node disc on rhizome protrudes and is purplish in summer.
Dried under the sun or baked, then cut into pieces.
What are the actions and inactions of Chuan Xiong?
- Invigorates Blood and promotes Qi movement: any blood stasis pattern which as dysmenorrhoea, amenorrhoea, difficult labour, retained lochia or stagnation of Qi and Blood. Pain and soreness of chest.
- Expels wind and alleviates pain: externally contracted Wind, headache, dizziness, skin conditions, painful obstruction.
What are the classifications of Chuan Xiong?
Nature: Warm
Taste: Acrid
Direction of action: ascending
Site of action: Liver. GB, pericardium
What is the dosage of Chuan Xiong?
3-9g
What are the cautions / contraindications of Chuan Xiong?
Yin Xu
Ascendant Liver Yang, Heavy menses, blood thinners, caution in pregnancy
What is Niu Xi?
ACHYRANTHES BIDENTATA (ROOT)
What is the collection and processing of Niu Xi?
Collected when stem and leaf are withered in winter.
What are the actions and indications of Niu Xi?
- Invigorates Blood & dispels stasis: dysmenorrhoea, amenorrhoea, retained lochia
- Tonifies Liver & Kidney, strengthens sinews & bones: treats lower back and knee pain due to Liver & Kidney Xu: pain and soreness affecting the lower back and knee
- Induces downward movement of Blood & Fire: treats chaotic movement of blood heat in the UJ or Yin Xu w/ ascendant fire or ascending Yang
- Clears damp heat in LJ: oedema, painful urinary dribbling with stones
What are the classifications of Niu Xi?
Nature: neutral
Taste: bitter, sour
Direction of action: descending
Site of action: Liver, Kidney
What is the dosage of Niu Xi?
6-15g
What are the cautions and contraindications of Niu Xi?
Contraindicated in pregnancy, menorrhagia
What is the formula Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang?
- Dang Gui
- Sheng Di Huang
- Tao Ren
- Hong Hua
- Zhi Gan Cao
- Zhi Qiao
- Chi Shao Yao
- Chai Hu
- Chuan Xiong
- Jie Geng
- Chuan Niu Xi
What are the actions of Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang?
Activate blood circulation and dispel blood stagnation
Activate Qi circulation and relives pain
What are the indications, symptoms and patterns of Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang?
- Blood stagnation in the chest and diaphragmatic region
- Stabbing pain in the chest, head or hypochondriac region. Hiccups, dry heaves, vomiting, palpitation.
- Tongue: purplish, purple sots or distended, dark sublingual vessels
- Choppy and wiry pulse
What are the cautions and contraindications of Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang?
Contraindicated in pregnancy
Caution with heavy, long periods
What is the dosage of Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang?
Prepared as a decoction
What is Wen Jing Tang?
- Wu Zhu Yu
- Dang Gui
- Bai Shao
- Chuan Xiong
- Ren Shen
- Gui Zhi
- Er Jiao
- Mu Dan Pi
- Sheng Jian
- Gan Cao
- Zhi Ban Xia
- Mai Dong
What is the function of Wen Jing Tang?
Warms channels to dispel cold, remove blood stasis and nourishes blood
What are the patterns and symptoms indicated for Wen Jing Tang?
- Deficient cold and blood stasis in Chong and Ren meridians
- Vaginal spotting with dull blood clot, irregular menstruation with preceded or delayed menstrual cycle, painful menstruation
- Infertility due to cold in the uterus, abdominal pain, distension
- Dull red or dark red tongue. Thin and Choppy pulse
What are the cautions and contraindications for Wen Jing Tang?
Heat patterns or irregular menstruation due to deficiency without blood stasis
What is the dosage of Wen Jing Tang?
Prepared as a decoction
What is the function Huai Hua San?
Clears intestinal heat and stanch bleeding, scatters wind and rectifies Qi.
What is Huai Hua San?
- Chao Huai Hua
- Ce bai ye
- Jing Jie
- Chao Zhi Ke
What are the associated patterns and symptoms indicated for Huai Hua San?
- Bloody stool due to wind-heat-damp toxin obstructing the intestines
- Manifests as bleeding before or after defaecation, blood-stained stool with bright-red or dusky muddy blood.
- Red tongue with yellow and greasy coat
- Rapid or slippery pulse
What are the cautions / contraindications for Huai Hua San?
Contraindicated for clients with chronic bloody stool or Qi Xu.
This formula is not suitable for long-term oral use.
What is the dosage for Huai Hua San?
Prepared as a decoction
