HERB FORMULAS

DANG GUI BU XUE TANG

English: Tangkuei Decoction to Tonify the Blood
Also Known As: Tangkuei and Astragalus Combination
Blood Tonifying Decoction with Chinese Angelica
Angelica Blood Supplementing Decoction

HERBS AND ACTIONS

Pharmaceutical Latin
Pin Yin
Dosage
Actions
Rx. Astragali Huang Qi 10-30g Strongly tonifies Spleen and Lung Qi to reinforce Blood and generate flesh.
 With Dang Gui, for Qi and Blood Deficiencies with chronic non-healing sores, numbness, Bi Syndrome, paresthesia and thirst in patients with a weak pulse
Rx. Angelicae Sinensis Dang Gui 2-9g Generates flesh, nourishes and invigorates Blood and replenishes the Qi of the Blood.
With Huang Qi, for excessive blood loss with pale face, weakness, fatigue and / or low grade fever.

FORMULA ACTIONS

  • Tonifies Qi
  • Generates Blood
  • Promotes healing of wounds

SYNDROMES

  • Heart Blood Deficiency
  • Heart and Liver Blood Deficiencies
  • Spleen Not Governing Blood
  • Yin ulcers
  • Fever and headache due to Blood loss

CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS

  • Hot sensations in the muscles and skin
  • Red face
  • Irritability
  • Thirst with a preference for warm beverages or does not wish to drink
  • Fatigue
  • Fever
  • Headache
  • Slight perspiration
  • hypermenorrhea during menstruation or after labor
  • Purulent abscesses
  • Red eyes
  • Dry, feverish skin
  • Postpartum fever
  • Distress
  • Postpartum headache
  • Postpartum irregular menstruation
  • Slow healing of wounds
  • Excessive Blood loss after labor
  • T: Pale
  • P: Flooding, big, forceless and Deficient when pressed hard or Big and weak

TREATS

  • Anemia
  • Allergic purpura
  • Thrombocytopenic purpura
  • Dysfunctional uterine bleeding
  • Perimenstrual fever
  • Non-healing sores and ulcers
  • Supportive therapy during radiation treatment
  • Insufficient lactation
  • Arthritis
  • Leukemia
  • Leukopenia
  • Neurasthenia
  • Purulent abscesses
  • Postpartum bleeding
  • Postpartum fever
  • Amenorrhea
  • Ulcerative colitis
  • Heel pain
  • Neurasthenia
  • Tuberculosis

CONTRAINDICATIONS AND HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

CONTRAINDICATIONS
  • Contraindicated for those with Yin Deficiency with tidal fever.
  • Contraindicated for those with Excess conditions.
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

NOTES

MODIFICATIONS

For bleeding due to Spleen Not Governing Blood: For ulcerated sores in which the toxin has not been completely discharged:
+ Hb. Agrimoniae Xian He Cao + Flos Lonicerae Jin Yin Hua
+ Crinis Carbonisatus Xue Yu Tan + Rx. Glycyrrhizae Gan Cao
For allergic purpura:
For common cold or influenza with fever and headache during menstruation or postpartum:
+ Bombyx Batryticatus Jiang Can + Bul. Allii Fistulosi Cong Bai
+ Rx. Achyranthis Niu Xi + Sm. Sojae Preparata Dan Dou Chi
For general Blood Deficiency:
+ Rz. Zingiberis Recens Sheng Jiang
+ Rx. Rehmanniae Preparata Shu Di Huang + Fr. Jujube Da Zao
+ Rx. Polygoni Multiflori He Shou Wu
For hypermenorrhea:
+ Hb. Taxilli Sang Ji Sheng + Rx. Sanguisorbae Di Yu
+ Rx. paeoniae Alba Bai Shao + Charred Rx. Scutellariae Huang Qin
For tachycardia:
+ Rx. Glycyrrhizae Gan Cao
+ Generate the Pulse Powder
Sheng Mai San
For ulcerated sores that do not heal:
For continuous bleeding:
+ Flos. Lonicerae Jin Yin Hua
+ Calcined Fossilia Ossis Mastodi Duan Long Gu + Fr. Forsythiae Lian Qiao
+ Fr. Corni Shan Zhu Yu + Rx. Trichosanthis Tian Hua Fen
+ Colla Corii Asini E Jiao
For fibromyalgia due to Blood Deficiency:
   
+ Drive out Stasis in the Mansion of Blood Decoction
Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang
   
+ Moisten the Intestines Pill
Run Chang Wan
   
or
   
+ Drive out Stasis in the Mansion of Blood Decoction
Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang
   
+ Moisten the Intestines Pill #1
Run Chang Wan #1
   
or
   
+ Drive out Stasis in the Mansion of Blood Decoction
Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang
   
+ Moisten the Intestines Pill #2
Run Chang Wan #2