Prescriptions for Enriching Blood
Danggui Buxue Tang
Name
Chinese Angelica Decoction for Enriching Blood
The Prescription of Danggui Buxue Tang
Source
The book Nei Wai Shang Bian Huo Lun
Ingredients
Huang Qi (Radix Astragali) 30 g,Dang Gui (Radix Angelicae Sinensis) 6 g.Explanation
Huang Qi: Used in large dose to invigorate strongly the Qi of the spleen and lung so as to promote the production of blood.
Dang Gui: Enriching blood and regulating Yang, working together with Huang Qi to result in the growth of both Yang and Yin and the generation of both Qi and blood.
The Effect of Danggui Buxue Tang
Effect
Supplementing Qi to promote the production of blood.
Indications
Syndrome of fever due to blood deficiency, marked by muscle-heat and flushed face, excessive thirst with desire for drinking, full large but weak pulse, or headache during menstruation or after giving birth, or unhealing opening of a carbuncle or furfuncle; including such diseases with the above manifestations as various anemia, allergic purpura, dysfunctionaluterine bleeding, leukopenia and neurosism.
Administrations
Decocted in water for oral dose to be taken twice.
Sources and further reading
We cite classical materia medica and modern reference works. This article is health education, not medical advice.
- Shennong Bencao Jing (The Divine Farmer's Materia Medica), Han dynasty.
- Bencao Gangmu (Compendium of Materia Medica), Li Shizhen, 1578.
- Chinese Pharmacopoeia, current edition — identity, quality and safety monographs.
- NCCIH and WHO reference material on traditional medicine safety.
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