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Ass Hide Glue and Mugwort Decoction

胶艾汤 〔膠艾湯〕jiāo ài tāng

Source: Jīn Guì Yào Lüè 金匮要略

Ingredients:

Action: Supplements the blood and stanches bleeding; regulates menstruation and quiets the fetus.

Indication: Vacuity of the thoroughfare (chōng) and controlling (rèn) vessels in women manifesting as pain in the lesser abdomen, flooding and spotting or profuse menstruation, stirring fetus or flooding and spotting during pregnancy, and dribbling postpartum vaginal discharge.

Category: Supplementing formulas / Yīn-yáng dual supplementation formulas

Method: Dissolve the ass hide glue in the strained decoction of the other agents over a low flame, before adding rice wine.

Rationale: ē jiāo supplements the blood while mugwort warms the palace (i.e., the uterus). Both stanch bleeding. Together they treat root and tip of bleeding due to damage to the thoroughfare (chōng) and controlling (rèn) vessels; hence, they are the sovereign agents. Shēng dì huáng, Bái sháo, Chuān xiōng, and Dāng guī (which have also come to be used alone in Sì wù tāng (四物汤 Four Agents Decoction), supplement the blood and regulate menstruation. Gān cǎo is used raw to harmonize all the agents of the formula. The rice wine is used to move the other agents.

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