🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Breast tissue is a target organ for sex hormones; thus, hormonal imbalance can lead to breast nodules and pain, as well as manifest as menstrual disorders, including early or delayed menstruation, reduced or increased menstrual flow, dark purple or pale red blood color. Menstrual irregularities are often related to dysfunction of zang-fu organs, qi, blood, and meridians, particularly involving the liver, spleen, and kidney. For example, early menstruation with excessive flow, pale red blood, loose stools, and fatigue indicate deficiency of both liver and kidney qi and blood. Treatment includes: 9 g of white ginseng, steamed with rock sugar, consumed over 3–4 days. Alternatively, 15 g of codonopsis, 30 g of astragalus, 12 g of white atractylodes, 5 g of raw rehmannia, 3 g of fried licorice, 6 g of donkey-hide gelatin, 3 g of mugwort leaf, and 5 g of prepared ginger. For heat excess, add 12 g of raw rehmannia, 9 g of lycium root bark, 9 g of scrophularia, remove mugwort and prepared ginger. Mild cases may use Ren Shen Yang Rong Wan or Wu Ji Bai Feng Wan.
If early menstruation or excessive bleeding results from blood heat, symptoms include flushed cheeks, hot palms and soles, dry mouth with little saliva, dizziness, blurred vision, red tongue, and rapid pulse. Treatment includes: 12 g of raw rehmannia, 9 g of lycium root bark, 9 g of scrophularia, 6 g of donkey-hide gelatin (melted), 9 g of white peony, 9 g of yellow chrysanthemum, 15 g of hedyotis, 9 g of goji berries, 12 g of codonopsis, 3 g of fried licorice, taken once daily. Mild cases may use Zhī Bó Dì Huáng Wán or Èr Zhì Wán.
If menstruation comes early with heavy flow, dark purple blood with clots, lower abdominal pain, dark purple tongue with ecchymosis, and wiry-thin pulse, this indicates blood stasis obstructing the uterus. Treatment involves activating blood circulation and removing stasis: 15 g of angelica, 12 g of salvia, 12 g of eupatorium, 2 g of peach kernel, 30 g of motherwort, 15 g of achyranthes, 9 g of processed aconite, 9 g of spikenard, 12 g of white atractylodes, taken once daily. After symptom improvement, take Motherwort Paste.
For middle-aged women suffering from mammary hyperplasia or cystic mastopathy presenting with prolonged or double monthly menstruation, accompanied by dizziness, tinnitus, lower back weakness, fatigue, and hot palms and soles due to liver-kidney deficiency, treatment includes: 9 g of goji berries, 9 g of alisma, 9 g of chrysanthemum, 9 g each of raw and cooked rehmannia, 9 g of stir-fried white atractylodes, 9 g of stir-fried white peony, 9 g of moutan bark, 12 g of epimedium, 12 g of dodder seed, taken once daily. Suitable preparations include Jin Kui Shen Qi Wan and He Che Da Zao Wan. For severe breast disease with menstrual disorders unresponsive to long-term treatment, use Xian Jie Dan series drugs combined with external application of Breast Healing Ointment, yielding remarkable results.
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