Infertility #26
- Medicinals
- 8
Composition
Cools the Blood and drains Yin Deficiency Fire.
Clears Heat, cools and harmonizes the Blood, clears Deficiency Fire, invigorates the Blood and dispels Blood Stasis.
- Mai Men DongRx. Ophiopogonis6–15 g
Nourishes Lung and Stomach Yin and generates Fluids.
- Bei Sha Shen
Clears Heat, cools the Blood and nourishes *Yin*.
Tonifies Liver and Kidney *Yin*.
- Bai ZhuRz. Atractylodis Macrocephalae3–15 g
Tonifies the Spleen, augments *Qi, dries Dampness and promotes water metabolism.*
Enriches Kidney Yin, clears Heat, generates fluids and reduces Heat from Deficiency
Tonifies the Kidneys and astringes Jing.
Actions
- Builds up Yin in the Liver and Kidney
- Eliminates Heat
Patterns treated
Liver Qi Stagnation, accompanied by Stagnant Heat converting into Deficiency Heat
Manifestations
- Difficulty achieving pregnancy
- Longstanding failure to become pregnant
- Fullness and distention across the chest and rib sides
- Lightheadedness
- Ringing in the ears
- Menstrual flow that is reduced in amount, dark, and clotted, or
- A light-colored, sparse menstrual flow
- An unpredictable menstrual cycle
- Pain across the breasts and hypochondrium
- Abdominal pain occurring with the menstrual period
- Breast distention before the period, in some cases
- Tightness in the breasts prior to menstruation
- Menstruation accompanied by pain
- Premenstrual irritability
- Premenstrual anxiousness
- Low mood
- Bloating of the abdomen
- Belching
- A tendency to sigh
- Fluid retention
- Head pain
- A past history of cramps
- Tongue body
- A tongue of normal color, or Red, or slightly red along the sides; when the Qi Stagnation stems from Blood Deficiency, the sides may instead appear Pale
- Coating
- Normal, or scant, or absent
- Pulse
- Thin and quick
Indications
An inability to conceive