TRADITIONAL INTERNAL MEDICINE – DISEASES & FORMULAS
Move the Blood – Blood Stasis
Blood Stasis can have several different meanings. Acute Trauma with Bruising involves Blood stasis. But Blood stasis is also involved in many chronic diseases. Most chronic inflammatory conditions involve Blood stasis, as is Cirrhosis, Fibrosis and Tumors. Likewise Chest pain and Angina Pectoris is also associated with Blood Stasis. Many gynecological diseases are related to Blood stasis including Dysmenorrhea, Endoemtriosis and Fibroids and usually there will be accompanying dark blood or blood clots in the menstrual blood.
Symptoms of Blood stasis include sharp, stabbing, fixed pain, dull complexion, purplish color of the nails, lips and tongue, a choppy pulse. Females will have dark or clotted menstrual Blood. Chronic pain following Trauma indicates unresolved Blood stasis.
See also:
Western Tradition
Blood Stasis in General
Decoction for Wounds
Vulnerary Decoction
Tincture of Myrrh
Tincture of Saffron
Tincture of St. Johns wort
Powder to Move the Blood (Wirtzung)
Powder to Break Blood Above and Below (Nicholas)
Powder for Congealed Blood in the Chest
Powder for Coagulated Blood (Renodeus)
Powder of Gum Lacca Lesser (Mesue)
Powder of Gum Lacca Greater (Mesue)
Troches of Gum Lacca (Trochisci de Lacca) (Mesue)
Troches of Myrrh
Troches of Saffron (Damocrates)
Troches of Saffron (Nicholas)
Electuary of Saffron Lesser (Diacrocon Minus) (Mesue)
Electuary of Saffron Greater (Diacrocon Majores) (M.)
Pills of Ruffus (Common Pills)
Ointment for Congealed Blood
Oil of the Philosophers
Blood Stasis in the Head
Tincture of St. Johns wort
Powder for Head Wounds (Andernacus)
Blood Stasis in the Chest
Vulnerary Decoction
Tincture of Saffron
Tincture of Musk
Troches of Saffron (Damocrates)
Powder for Congealed Blood in the Chest
Powder to Break Blood Above and Below (Nicholas)
Blood Stasis in the Abdomen
Powder of Gum Lacca Lesser (Mesue)
Powder of Gum Lacca Greater (Mesue)
Troches of Gum Lacca (Trochisci de Lacca) (Mesue)
Powder to Break Blood Above and Below (Nicholas)
TCM Classification
Blood Stasis in General
Dang Gui Shao Yao San
Shi Xiao San
Huo Luo Xiao Ling Dan
Tao Hong Si Wu Tang
Ge Xia Zhu Yu Tang
Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang
Shao Fu Zhu Yu Tang
Shen Tong Zhu Yu Tang
Tong Qiao Huo Xue Tang
Qi Li San
Di Dang Tang
Severe Blood Stasis
Chronic Blood stasis, maybe fibrosis or cirrhosis, varices etc. with emaciation. Dull complexion, purple tongue and lips, choppy and weak pulse
Di Dang Tang
Da Huang Zhe Chong Wan
Blood Stasis with Deficiency
Fatigue, Weakness of the limbs, typically a chronic condition, or seen in the elderly. Purplish lips, nails bed and tongue with a choppy pulse
Bu Yang Huan Wu Tang
According to Location
Heart Blood Stasis
Chest pain, sweating, weakness, breathless, weak or choppy or intermittent pulse
Dan Shen Yin
Blood Stasis in the Head
Tong Qiao Huo Xue Tang
Blood Stasis in the Chest
Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang
Blood Stasis in the Abdomen
Ge Xia Zhu Yu Tang
Da Huang Zhe Chong Wan
Di Dang Tang
Tao Hong Si Wu Tang
Blood Stasis in the Lower Body
Shao Fu Zhu Yu Tang
Gui Zhi Fu Ling Wan
Di Dang Tang
Tao Hong Si Wu Tang
Blood Stasis in the Extremities
Huo Luo Xiao Ling Dan
Jin Gu Die Shang Wan
Shen Tong Zhu Yu Tang
