WH Acupuncture & Herbs Centre

【DIRECTIONS】: Decoct all above herbs in water for oral administration.

【EFFECTS】: Replenishing qi, strengthening the spleen and nourishing the blood to soothe fetus.

【INDICATIONS】: Continual foetal perturbation due to deficiency of both qi and the blood marked by pallor, lassitude, loss of appetite, pale tongue with thin white coating, forceless floating and rolling pulse of deep and weak pulse.

【ANALYSIS OF FORMULA】: This formula is Ten Strong Tonic Herbs Decoc­tion minus cinnamon bark, poria, but plus dipsacus root, Scutellaria amomum fruit and glutinous rice. Because dipsacus is pungent in flavor and hot in property, it is able to warm and drive blood circulation. Poria has effects of diuresis and excre­ting dampness. Both of them are harmful to fetus, thus omitted.

Of all the ingredients, ginseng, astragalus root, bighead atractylodes rhizome and licorice invigorate the middle and replenish qi; prepared rehmannia root, Chi­nese angelica root, white peony root and dipsacus root, tonify the essence and blood, nourish the liver and kidney to enrich the Chong and Ren Meridians and to protect the fetus; Scutellaria clears heat to soothe fetus, amomum fruit regulates qi to soothe fetus; combination of chuanxiong rhizome and herbs to tonify the blood has effect of regulating the vital energy within the blood; glutinous rice nourishes the spleen and stomach. Thus, this formula is effective for replenishing qi, strengthening the spleen, nourishing the liver and kidney, enrichinng Chong and Ren Meridians to soothe fetus.