The "first prescription for enriching blood" is widely used.
Siwutang is a common prescription for enriching blood and a basic prescription for regulating menstruation for women. Known by later physicians as "the first prescription for enriching blood" and "the first prescription for gynecology", it is widely used for conditioning patients with gynecological diseases and blood deficiency syndrome.
Huang Sui Ping said, tracing back to the source, this prescription actually evolved from Jiao Tangai in Synopsis of the Golden Chamber written by Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage. Zhongjing's Jiao Ai Tang was originally used to treat various bleeding syndromes caused by women's insufficient chong Ren and inability to keep yin and blood inside. Lin Daoren subtracted colla Corii Asini, Folium Artemisiae Argyi and Glycyrrhrizae Radix for warming uterus and regulating menstruation, replaced Radix Rehmanniae Preparata and Radix Paeoniae with Radix Paeoniae Alba, and kept the original prescriptions of Radix Angelicae Sinensis and Rhizoma Chuanxiong, named "Siwu Decoction", thus making Yangxue Tiaojing Antifetation Prescription a medicine for treating blood deficiency and blood stasis syndrome in traumatology.
Doctors in later generations generally like to use this prescription to treat gynecological diseases and various blood deficiency syndromes. Siwutang, as the basic prescription of nourishing blood and regulating menstruation, was improved from Siwutang in later generations.
People with heat constitution should pay attention to increase or decrease.
Huang Suiping reminded that although Siwutang is called "the first party to replenish blood", it should also correspond to physical fitness, and not everyone can use it.
The suitable crowd of Siwutang includes:
1, dizziness, palpitation, especially when suddenly standing up from squatting position, accompanied by insomnia and forgetfulness;
2, pale, bloodless, or pale, lips and nails are lighter;
3, menstruation is delayed, the amount is small or amenorrhea, the color is dark at first, and then the color becomes very light;
4, fatigue after menstruation is obvious, knee joint is sore, and it is aggravated after exercise.
However, Siwu decoction, as a tonic, is warm and dry. Therefore, it is not suitable for people with damp heat, and some people with hot constitution are prone to get angry and get acne; Radix Rehmanniae Preparata and Radix Angelicae Sinensis in the prescription are greasy, and people with poor spleen and stomach function and moisture are prone to diarrhea. In addition, both Angelica sinensis and Ligusticum chuanxiong have the function of promoting blood circulation, so it is not advisable to take them during menstruation and pregnancy to avoid blood-enriching abortion.
For those with heat constitution, Huang Suiping suggested that Radix Rehmanniae could be used instead, or half of Radix Rehmanniae and half of Radix Rehmanniae, and Rhizoma Chuanxiong should be reduced appropriately.
Medicinal diet recommendation: Siwu black chicken soup
Materials: Radix Rehmanniae Preparata 10g, Radix Angelicae Sinensis 10g, Radix Paeoniae Alba 10g, Rhizoma Chuanxiong 5g, and half black-bone chicken. (1 person)
Practice: Wash the black-bone chicken, peel and cut into pieces, blanch it and put it in a casserole with all the medicinal materials, add enough water to boil it, then simmer 1 hour and add salt to taste.
Efficacy: replenishing blood and qi, regulating menstruation and removing blood stasis.
Suitable for people: people with blood deficiency and blood stasis, such as dizziness, dull complexion and palpitation and insomnia, women with irregular menstruation, scanty menstruation or amenorrhea, pale tongue, thin tongue coating, thin or astringent pulse.
Source | Yangcheng Evening News Yangcheng School
Editor | Cui Wencan