Stabilize the Menses Pill
Chinese Prescription: Gu Jing Wan
English Translation: Stabilize the Menses Pill
Formula Type: Stabilize the Womb
Actions: Enriches the yin, clears heat, stops bleeding, & stabilizes the menses.
Indications: Continuous menstruation or uterine bleeding that alternates between trickling & gushing of blood. The blood is very red & may contain dark-purple clots. Accompanying signs & symptoms include a sensation of heat & irritability in the chest, abdominal pain, dark urine, a red tongue, & a rapid, wiry pulse.
Contraindications: Unknown.
Pinyin | English | Suggested Dosage |
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view: Gui Ban |
Honey-fried Turtle Shell, ventral part, Prepared | 30g |
view: Bai Shao Yao |
Dry-fried White Peony | 30g |
view: Huang Qin |
Dry-fried Scutellaria Baicalensis | 30g |
view: Chun Gen Pi |
Chinese Tree-of-Heaven Bark | 22.5g |
view: Huang Bai |
Dry-fried Phellodendron | 9g |
view: Xiang Fu |
Cyperus | 7.5g |
Gui Ban / Turtle Shell, Fresh Water-Ventral Part | |||
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Taste: Salty, Sweet • Temperature: Cold • Category: Tonic • Sub Category: Tonify Yin | |||
Dosage9-30g, crush & cook 30 minutes before adding other ingredients |
Actions1. Nourishes the yin & anchors the yang: for yin deficiency with ascendant yang with such symptoms as night sweats, dizziness, tinnitus, & steaming bone disorder. Also for yin deficiency of the Liver & Kidneys that generates internal wind symptoms such as facial spasms & tremors of the hands & feet.2. Benefits the Kidneys & strengthens the bones: for Kidney yin deficiency with such signs as soreness of the lower back & weakness in the legs, retarded skeletal development in children, or failure of the fontanel to close. 3. Cools blood & stops uterine bleeding: for excessive menstruation or uterine bleeding casued by reckless movement of hot blood. 4. Nourishes the blood & tonifies the Heart: for Heart deficiency with anxiety, insomnia, & forgetfulness. 5. Also for nonhealing sores & ulcerations. |
MeridiansHeart, Kidney, Liver |
CautionsAncient sources would indicate that this substance is contraindicated during pregnancy because it softens hardness, expels stasis, & aids in difficult births. Also contraindicated in cases with damp-cold Stomach, or diarrha due to yang deficiency. According to some traditional sources, this substance antagonizes Sha Shen & Ren Shen. |
Bai Shao Yao / Peony (White) | |||
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Taste: Bitter, Sour • Temperature: Cool • Category: Tonic • Sub Category: Tonify Blood | |||
Dosage6-15g, very large doses up to 30 g |
Actions1. Nourishes the blood & regulates the menses: for blood deficiency with such symptoms as menstrual dysfunction, vaginal discharge, & uterine bleeding. This is a very commonly used herb for treating women's disorders.2. Calms & curbs the Liver yang & alleviates pain: for such symptoms as flank, chest, or abdominal pain from either constrained Liver qi or disharmony between the Liver & Spleen. In general, this herb is used to "soften & comfort" the Liver, stop painful spasms in the abdomen, stop cramping pain or spasms in the hands & feet, & alleviate abdominal pain associated with dysentric disorders. It is also used for headache & dizziness due to ascendant Liver yang. 3. Preserves the yin & adjusts the nutritive & protective levels: for vaginal discharge & spermatorrhea, as well as exterior wind-cold from deficiency patterns with continuous sweating that does not resolve the problem. It is also used for yin deficiency where the yang floats to the surface causing spontaneous sweating or night sweats. |
MeridiansLiver, Spleen |
CautionsUse with caution in cases of diarrhea due to cold from deficiency, & in patients with weak yang & cold from deficiency. May antagonize shi hu & mang xiao, may counteract with bie jia & xiao ji, & may be incompatible with li lu. |
Huang Qin / Scute or Baical Skullcap Root | |||
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Taste: Bitter • Temperature: Cold • Category: Clear Heat • Sub Category: Drain Damp | |||
Dosage6-15g |
Actions1. Clears heat & drains fire, especially from the upper burner: for heat patterns with high fever, irritability, thirst, cough, & expectoration of thick, yellow sputum, or hot sores & swellings. In treating the latter it can be applied topically or taken internally.2. Clears heat & dries dampness: a major herb for damp-heat in the Stomach or Intestines, which manifests as diarrhea or dyenteric disorder; damp warm-febrile disease, which presents with fever, stifling senstaion in the chest, & thirst but inability to drink; or for damp-heat in the lower burner with painful urinary dysfunction. Used as a an auxiliary herb for damp-heat jaundice. |
MeridiansGallbladder, Large Intestine, Lung, Stomach |
CautionsContraindicated in cases of heat from deficiency in the Lungs, cold diarrhea o any other condition with cold in the middle burner, & restless fetus due to cold in the blood. May counteract mu dan pi & li lu. |
Chun Gen Pi / Ailanthus bark or root bark | |||
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Taste: Bitter, Astringent • Temperature: Cold • Category: Stabilize & Bind • Sub Category: | |||
Dosage3-15g |
Actions1. Clears heat, dries dampness, & binds up the Intestines: for chronc diarrhea or dysenteric disorders, especially those due to damp-heat. Particularly useful when there is blood in the stool. Also used for chronic vaginal discharge due to damp-heat.2. Kills parasites: for roundworms. Used externally for pruritic tinea-like rashes. |
MeridiansLarge Intestine, Stomach |
CautionsAccording to some traditional sources, this herb should not be used in cases of cold & deficiency of the Spleen & Stomach, or where there is significant Kidney yin deficiecy. |
Huang Bai / Phellodendron Bark | |||
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Taste: Bitter • Temperature: Cold • Category: Clear Heat • Sub Category: Drain Damp | |||
Dosage3-12g |
Actions1. Drains damp-heat, particularly from the lower-burner: for such problems as thick, yellow vaginal discharge, foul-smelling diarrhea, or dysenteric disorder. Also for damp-heat pouring downward or hot leg qi with such symptoms as red, swollen, & painful knees, legs, or feet. Also for damp-heat jaundice.2. Drains Kidney fire: for ascending Kindey fire with signs of yin deficiency such as steaming bone disorder, night sweats, afternoon fevers & sweating, sometimes accompanied by nocturnal emissions & spermatorrhea. 3. Drains fire & relieves toxicity: for fire toxin generated sores & damp lesions of the skin. |
MeridiansKidney, Bladder |
CautionsContraindicated in cases of Spleen deficiency with or without diarrhea. Toxicity: There has been one case reported of a patient who developed a rash after ingestion of huang bai. When the patient was later skin-tested, there was a very strong local reaction. |
Xiang Fu / Cyperus Rhizome "Nut-grass" | |||
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Taste: Acrid, Slightly Bitter, Slightly Sweet • Temperature: Neutral • Category: Regulate Qi • Sub Category: | |||
Dosage4.5-12g |
Actions1. Spreads & regulatew Liver qi: for constrained Liver qi patterns with hypochondriac pain & epigastric distention, as well as disharmony between the Liver & Spleen. The neutral property of this herb together with its ability to dispers & harmonize account for its widespread use.2. Regulates menstruation & alleviates pain: used to facilitate the flow of Liver qi in gynecological disorders with such signs as dysmenorrhea or irregular menstruation. |
MeridiansLiver, Triple Burner |
CautionsContraindicated in cases of qi deficiency without stagnation, & yin deficiency or heat in the blood. |