Product Specifications
Practitioner Notes
Formula Type
Extract & Concentrate
TCM Pattern
Blood vacuity and blood stasis. When the liver qi stagnates and the liver blood is deficient, patients may lose their amiable nature and exhibit irritability, quick temper, insomnia, or dream disturbed sleep. These circumstances are considered Hardness of the liver.
Therapeutic Functions
Nourishes and supplements the blood, courses the liver, quickens the blood and dispels stasis.*
Clinical Indications
Primary dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation, anemia, threatened miscarriage, post-parum weakness, insufficient lactation, urticaria, and neurogenic headache.
Symptoms & Signs
Fatigue, dizziness, blurred vision, tinnitus, palpitations, pale lips and nails, irregular menstrual cycles, scanty menstruation, clots in the menstruate, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, PMS, painful abdominal masses, threatened miscarriage.
Precautions
Use with caution for patients with poor appetite, indigestion, or loose stool due to spleen qi vacuity. Si Wu Tang is contraindicated for acute blood loss. Not for use during pregnancy.
Pulse Quality
Thin, frail, or rough.
Tongue Appearance
Pale.
Ingredients
Imperial Grace Formulary of the Tai Ping Era (He Ji Ju Fang)
| Pin Yin | Botanical Name |
|---|---|
| dang gui | Angelica sinensis root |
| shu di huang | Prepared Rehmannia root |
| bai shao | White Peony root |
| chuan xiong | Ligusticum wallichii rhizome |