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Tai Shan Pan Shi San
chinese formulae
definition
Tai Shan Pan Shi San = "Powder that Gives the Stability of Mount Tai"
sources: Yeung, p. 227; Bensky and Barolet, p. 261.
signs and symptoms: For pregnant women with signs of threatened miscarriage, with light red blood and constant lower abdominal pain, accompanied by a pale face, fatigue, insomnia, loss of appetite.
tongue and pulse: pale tongue with a thin, white coating, and a slippery and forceless or deep and frail pulse.
indications: Qi and Xue (Blood) Xu (Deficiency) with history of miscarriage or threatened miscarriage. Also for women with Qi and Xue (Blood) Xu (Deficiency) and a history of miscarriage who desire to become pregnant.
cautions and contraindications:
ingredients: dosage for two days:
» 20 grams: glutinous rice (nuo mi).
» 9 grams: prepared rehmannia (shu di huang).
» 6 grams: ginseng (ren shen), astragalus (huang qi), Chinese angelica (tang kuei) (dang gui), dipsacus (chuan xu duan), cnidium (chuan xiong), white peony (bai shao yao), white atractylodes (bai zhu).
» 3 grams: scute (huang qin), cardamon (sha ren), honey-baked licorice (zhi gan cao).
administration: When used to prevent miscarriage, it is usually taken once a week from the second to the fourth or fifth month of pregnancy.
modifications:
» with low back pain, add eucommia (du zhong) and loranthus (sang ji sheng).
» with excessive bleeding, add gelatin (e jiao) and agrimony (xian he cao).
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