1. Jixueteng (Chicken Blood Vine)
Huoxue (Activates Blood), Shujin (Relaxing Muscles). Used for lower back and knee pain, numbness and paralysis, and menstrual irregularities.
① Gangmu Shiyi: “Activates blood, warms the lower back and knees, treats wind paralysis.”
② Ben Cao Zai Xin: “Nourishes the middle and moistens the stomach.”
③ Yin Pian Xin Can: “Eliminates stasis, generates new blood, and smooths the meridians. Treats summer heat stroke and wind-blood obstruction.”
④ Modern Practical Chinese Medicine: “A tonic for strengthening blood, suitable for anemic neuropathy, such as limb and lower back pain, numbness, etc. Also used for women’s menstrual irregularities and amenorrhea.”
2. Jianghuang (Turmeric)
Poxue (Breaks Blood), Xingqi (Moves Qi), Tongjing (Unblocks Menstruation), Zhiting (Stops Pain). Used for abdominal distension and pain, arm pain, masses, women’s blood stasis and amenorrhea, postpartum abdominal pain, trauma, and carbuncles. Commonly paired with Yuanhu (Corydalis) and Xianguo (Cyperus).
① Tang Ben Cao: “Treats abdominal masses, dispels wind-heat, and reduces carbuncles. More potent than Yujin (Curcuma).”
② Rihua Zi Ben Cao: “Treats masses and blood clots, unblocks menstruation, and alleviates trauma and swelling; stops violent wind pain and cold food.”
③ Ben Cao Tu Jing: “Treats gas distension and postpartum blood stagnation.”
④ Gangmu: “Treats wind obstruction and arm pain.”
⑤ Ben Cao Zheng: “Eliminates abdominal gas and distension, cold food pain.”
⑥ Ben Cao Shu: “Treats gas distension, abdominal pain, and hernia.”
3. Yangchong (Silkworm)
Huoxue (Activates Blood) and Quyu (Eliminates Stasis), Wenzhong (Warms the Middle) and Liqi (Regulates Qi). Used for cough due to overexertion, hemoptysis, stroke paralysis, trauma, and pain in the heart and stomach.
① Yao Xing Kao: “Swallow several to stop bleeding, treats fatigue.”
② Gangmu Shiyi: “Moves blood, warms the spleen and stomach, harmonizes the five organs, strengthens bones, dispels dampness and wind, and tonifies Yang. Treats insomnia in the elderly, night crying in children, nocturnal enuresis in girls, and cold in young women.”
4. Niuxi (Achyranthes)
Used raw to disperse blood stasis and reduce swelling. Treats dysuria, hematuria, amenorrhea, masses, difficult labor, retained placenta, postpartum abdominal pain, throat obstruction, carbuncles, and trauma. Cooked to tonify the liver and kidneys, strengthen bones and muscles. Treats lower back and knee pain, limb spasms, and atrophy.
① Ben Jing: “Treats cold-damp atrophy, limb spasms, and knee pain that cannot bend, expels blood and qi, and treats heat burns and miscarriage.”
② Bei Lu: “Heals injuries and restores energy, tonifies kidney Yin, helps with incontinence in the elderly, and nourishes marrow, alleviates pain in the brain and lower back, and regulates women’s menstrual flow.”
③ Yao Xing Lun: “Treats impotence, tonifies kidneys, and expels stagnant blood.”
④ Rihua Zi Ben Cao: “Treats weakness and coldness in the lower back and knees, breaks masses, alleviates pain, and strengthens Yang.”
⑤ Ben Cao Yan Yi: “Can guide other herbs downward.”
⑥ Dian Nan Ben Cao: “Alleviates pain in bones and muscles, strengthens muscles, and alleviates lower back and knee pain, breaks stasis, and expels phlegm and pus.”
⑦ Gangmu: “Treats chronic malaria, dysuria, throat obstruction, mouth sores, tooth pain, carbuncles, and fractures.”
⑧ Ben Cao Zheng: “Treats blood heat and spasms, dry blood and spasms, and promotes urination and relieves constipation.”
5. Dahuang (Rhubarb)
Clears heat toxins, breaks stagnation, and moves blood stasis. Used for heat constipation, delirium, food stagnation, initial dysentery, abdominal pain with urgency, menstrual stasis, masses, seasonal epidemics, acute conjunctivitis, hemoptysis, epistaxis, jaundice, edema, and carbuncles. Clears heat, opens the intestines, cools blood, detoxifies, and promotes menstruation. Used for heat constipation, abdominal pain from stagnation, and damp-heat jaundice.
① Ben Jing: “Eliminates blood stasis, blood blockages, cold-heat, breaks masses, and clears retained food and drink, purges the intestines, and regulates the five organs.”
② Bei Lu: “Calms the stomach, expels gas, eliminates phlegm, and treats abdominal distension and fullness, cold blood blockages, and abdominal pain in women.”
③ Yao Xing Lun: “Treats cold-heat, digests food, strengthens the five organs, promotes menstruation, and relieves damp-heat and food stagnation.”
④ Rihua Zi Ben Cao: “Unblocks all Qi, regulates blood vessels, and promotes joint mobility, expels stagnation and water, and alleviates cold and heat in the limbs.”
⑤ Gangmu: “Treats diarrhea, abdominal pain, dysuria, heat constipation, and various skin lesions.”
6. Zanghonghua (Saffron)
Huoxue (Activates Blood), Huaiyu (Disperses Stasis) and Kaijie (Opens Obstructions). Used for emotional distress, chest tightness, hemoptysis, febrile delirium, fright, women’s amenorrhea, postpartum abdominal pain, and trauma swelling.
① Yinshan Zhengyao: “Treats emotional distress and gas obstruction, prolonged consumption brings joy to the heart.”
② Pinhui Jingyao: “Disperses stasis, regulates blood, opens the chest, and promotes appetite. Long-term use nourishes the lower source and improves complexion, and treats febrile delirium.”
③ Gangmu: “Activates blood and treats palpitations.”
7. Quanscorpion (Whole Scorpion)
Dispels wind, stops spasms, unblocks channels, and detoxifies. Used for convulsions, epilepsy, stroke, hemiplegia, facial asymmetry, migraines, rheumatic pain, tetanus, and lymph node tuberculosis.
① Kaibao Ben Cao: “Treats various wind rashes and stroke with hemiplegia, facial asymmetry, and slurred speech, and spasms of hands and feet.”
② Ben Cao Tu Jing: “Treats convulsions in children.”
③ Ben Cao Hui Bian: “For tetanus, use whole scorpion and Fangfeng (Saposhnikovia) as the main herbs.”
④ Gangmu: “Treats adult malaria, deafness, hernia, various wind rashes, and women’s discharge issues.”
⑤ Ben Cao Zheng: “Opens phlegm and wind.”
⑥ Yuqiu Yaojie: “Penetrates muscles and bones, dispels dampness and wind.”
⑦ Shandong Zhongcao Yao Shouce: “Calms wind, unblocks channels, and treats thrombotic occlusive vascular inflammation, lymph node tuberculosis, and epidemic mumps.”
8. Yanhusuo (Corydalis)
Huoxue (Activates Blood), Sanju (Disperses Stasis), Liqi (Regulates Qi), and Zhiting (Stops Pain). Used for abdominal and lower back pain, menstrual irregularities, masses, postpartum dizziness, retained lochia, and trauma.
① Leigong Pao Zhi Lun: “Treats heart pain that feels like dying.”
② Rihua Zi Ben Cao: “Dispels wind, regulates Qi, warms the lower back and knees, breaks masses, alleviates trauma, and treats acute lower back pain.”
③ Kaibao Ben Cao: “Primarily breaks blood, treats postpartum conditions caused by blood issues. Women’s menstrual irregularities, abdominal masses, postpartum blood flow issues, and acute blood loss due to injury or alcohol consumption.”
④ Yixue Qiyuan: “Treats spleen and stomach Qi stagnation, primarily for cold-induced diarrhea, abdominal pain, and promotes digestion.”
⑤ Gangmu: “Activates blood, regulates Qi, alleviates pain, and promotes urination.”
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