🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Early Menstruation
（One）
【Differential Diagnosis】Excess Yang causing blood heat.
【Treatment】Clear heat, cool blood, nourish blood, and regulate menstruation.
【Formula Name】Qin Zhu Si Wu Tang (Four Substances Decoction with Scutellaria).
【Composition】Rehmannia glutinosa (prepared) 6g, Ligusticum chuanxiong 3g, Angelica sinensis 6g, Scutellaria baicalensis 6g, Atractylodes macrocephala 6g, Paeonia lactiflora (stir-fried) 6g.
【Usage】Decocted in water, take once daily, twice per day.
【Source】"Golden Mirror of Medical Principles," Volume XLIV.
（Two）
【Differential Diagnosis】Liver depression with blood heat.
【Treatment】Nourish blood and ying, soothe liver, strengthen spleen, and clear stagnant heat.
【Formula Name】Jia Wei Xiao Yao San (Augmented Free and Easy Wanderer Powder).
【Composition】Angelica sinensis 3g, Paeonia lactiflora 3g, Poria 3g, Stir-fried Atractylodes macrocephala 3g, Bupleurum chinense 3g, Moutan bark 1.5g, Stir-fried Gardenia jasminoides 1.5g, Fried Glycyrrhiza 1.5g.
【Usage】Decocted in water, take once daily, twice per day.
【Source】"Summary of Internal Medicine," Volume Lower.
（Three）
【Differential Diagnosis】Yin deficiency with blood heat.
【Treatment】Nourish yin, clear heat, harmonize blood, and regulate menstruation.
【Formula Name】An Jing Tang (Peaceful Menstrual Decoction).
【Composition】Angelica sinensis (whole root) 4.5g, Ligusticum chuanxiong 1.5g, Mugwort leaf 1.5g, Donkey-hide gelatin pearls 1.5g, Glycyrrhiza 1.5g, Phellodendron amurense 1.5g, Anemarrhena asphodeloides 1.5g, Paeonia lactiflora 2.4g, Prepared Coptis chinensis (ginger juice stir-fried) 2.4g, Rehmannia glutinosa 3g, Scutellaria baicalensis 3g, Cyperus rotundus 3g.
【Usage】Decocted, taken on an empty stomach.
【Source】"Correctness of Medical Practice," Volume VII.
（Four）
【Differential Diagnosis】Kidney Qi instability.
【Treatment】Moderately tonify spleen and kidney, regulate menstruation, and solidify Chong vessel.
【Formula Name】An Chong Tiao Jing Tang (Solidify Chong and Regulate Menstruation Decoction).
【Composition】Dioscorea opposita 15g, Atractylodes macrocephala 9g, Fried Glycyrrhiza 6g, Stone lotus seed 9g, Eucommia ulmoides 9g, Rehmannia glutinosa (prepared) 12g, Phellodendron amurense root bark 9g, Raw oyster shell 30g, Sepia 12g.
【Usage】Decocted in water, take once daily, twice per day.
【Source】"Liu Fengwu's Gynecological Experience."
（Five）
【Differential Diagnosis】Internal blood stasis with cold predominance.
【Treatment】Warm the meridians and expel blood stasis.
【Formula Name】Jia Wei Niu Xi Zhu Yu Tang (Augmented Achyranthes Blood-Stasis Expelling Decoction).
【Composition】Achyranthes bidentata 9g, Cinnamomum cassia (heartwood) 6g, Paeonia rubra 6g, Persicae semen 6g, Angelica sinensis 6g, Aquilaria agallochum 6g, Moutan bark 6g, Ligusticum chuanxiong 3g, Charred mugwort leaf 9g.
【Usage】Decocted in water, take once daily, twice per day.
【Source】"Textbook of Chinese Gynecological Treatment."
（Six）
【Differential Diagnosis】Excess Yang causing blood heat.
【Treatment】Cool blood and clear heat.
【Formula Name】Sheng Si Wu Tang (Raw Four Substances Decoction).
【Composition】Raw Paeonia lactiflora 9g, Raw Rehmannia glutinosa 9g, Anemarrhena asphodeloides 9g, Raw Scutellaria baicalensis 9g, Ligusticum chuanxiong 6g, Raw Angelica sinensis (whole root) 15g.
【Usage】Decocted in water, take once daily, twice per day.
【Source】"Eight Methods of Medicine," Volume IV.