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Huo Luo Xiao Ling Dan 活络效灵丹
Fantastically Effective Pill to Invigorate the Collaterals


Tradition:
TCM

Source / Author:
Essays of Medicine Esteeming the Chinese and Respecting the Western, 1918–1934

Herb Name
Dang Gui 当归 (Chinese angelica)
Dan Shen
丹参 (Red Sage root)
Ru Xiang
乳⾹ (Frankincense)
Mo Yao
没药 (Myrrh)

Latin
Angelica sinensis
Salvia miltiorrhiza
Boswellia carterii
Commiphora myrrha

Amount



15 grams ea.

Preparation:
Powder and form Honey pills.
Can also be prepared as a tincture.


Function:
Moves the Blood, clears Stasis, Open the Collaterals (Capillaries), Eases Pain

Use:
Fixed Pain with dull complexion, dark tongue or with bruised spots; wiry pulse
1. Fixed, sharp, stabbing Pain in the chest, abdomen, back, limbs
2. Neuralgias incl. Trigeminal Neuralgia, Post-herpetic Neuralgia, Intercostal Neuralgia
3. Bruising, Swelling due to Trauma
4. Fibroids; Tumors
5. Fixed abdominal masses
6. Angina Pectoris
7. Cerebral Thrombosis
8. Dysmenorrhea
9. Arthritic or Rheumatic pain associated with Blood stasis (dull colored joints)
10. Chronic Osteomyelitis
11. Cirrhosis; Liver Abscess; Liver hardness
12. Chronic abscesses; Chronic Eczema, Psoriasis
13. Internal or External Ulcers; Diabetic Ulcers


Dose:
The above can be taken in 4–6 equal doses, preferably taken with wine. It may also be decocted to be taken over the course of the day.

Cautions:
1. Not used during Pregnancy.
2. Not used in Bleeding disorders.
3. Can increase e
ffectiveness of Blood thinning agents


Modifications:
1. Pain in the lower limbs, add Angelica Du Huo and Achyranthes Niu Xi
2. Pain in the upper limbs, add Cinnamon twig Gui Zhi and Tumeric
3. Blood stagnation with Cold, add Cinnamon and/or Cinnamon twig Gui Zhi
3. To increase Blood-moving e
ffect, add Safflower and Peach kernel.
4. Also to increase blood-moving e
ffect, add Notoginseng San Qi
5. To more strongly invigorate the collaterals (
fine capillaries), prepare as a tincture and add Saffron, Asarum and Camphor.
6. Stubborn Rheumatic pain, add prepared Nux Vomica and prepared Aconitum Fu Zi


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This is a premier formula for pain due to Blood stagnation. It may be used for a wide range of disorders when the root cause is poor circulation or blood stagnation. Various chronic disorders can respond to such blood-moving formula when other treatment strategies have failed.

It is more effective and quicker acting if prepared as a tincture.
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