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Blood depression

血郁 〔血鬱〕xuè yù

A condition that results from sudden violent flights of anger, sprains, or irregular eating and that is characterized by stabbing pain in the chest and rib-side accompanied by lack of strength in the limbs, dribbling urination, bloody stool or a pulse sunken, scallion-stalk, rough, bound, or skipping and scallion-stalk.

Medicinal therapy: Harmonize the blood and resolve depression with Blood Depression Decoction (血郁汤 xuè yù tāng), Four Agents Depression-Transforming Decoction (四物化郁汤 sì wù huà yù tāng) or Toosendan Powder (金铃子散 jīn líng zǐ sǎn) with the judicious addition of peach kernel (Persicae Semen, 桃仁 táo rén), Chinese angelica tails (Angelicae Sinensis Radicis Extremitas, 当归尾 dāng guī wěi), curcuma (Curcumae Radix, 郁金 yù jīn), and dalbergia (Dalbergiae Odiferae Lignum, 降真香 jiàng zhēn xiāng).

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