Five Stagnations and Five Accumulations Pills，From *Effective Prescriptions from the Hongliao Mountain Pavilion*.，Chronic and acute cases of blood stasis (pale-yellow complexion, abdominal distension and pain, scanty and difficult urination), fluid retention (yellow complexion with edema and swelling), alcohol stagnation, food stagnation (chest distension or dry heaving), qi stagnation (chest constriction), and women’s blood stasis (yellow-green complexion with swelling, irregular menstruation);women with blood blisters or blood clots, food stagnation wrapped by qi, dry diseases with tidal fevers, or blocked menstruation; as well as blood stagnation, qi stagnation, alcohol stagnation, food stagnation, and parasitic stagnation causing distension in both men and women.
Five Stagnations and Five Accumulations Pills
Formulas Name : Five Stagnations and Five Accumulations Pills
Chinese Name : 五停五积丸
Drug Formulation
5 pieces of Shijunzi pulp (as per Formula A), 2.5 pieces of Croton seed pulp, 8 jin of aged pine resin (as per Formula B), 2 liang of Coptis, 2 liang of camphor, and 2 liang of cinnabar (water-floated).
Source
From *Effective Prescriptions from the Hongliao Mountain Pavilion*.
Benefits
Chronic and acute cases of blood stasis (pale-yellow complexion, abdominal distension and pain, scanty and difficult urination), fluid retention (yellow complexion with edema and swelling), alcohol stagnation, food stagnation (chest distension or dry heaving), qi stagnation (chest constriction), and women’s blood stasis (yellow-green complexion with swelling, irregular menstruation);women with blood blisters or blood clots, food stagnation wrapped by qi, dry diseases with tidal fevers, or blocked menstruation; as well as blood stagnation, qi stagnation, alcohol stagnation, food stagnation, and parasitic stagnation causing distension in both men and women.
Instructions for Use
Method A: Pound all ingredients together into a single pill; this constitutes one dose. Take it on an empty stomach with hot water mixed with brown sugar. Method B: Grind all ingredients into a fine powder; mix with hot water to form pills the size of mung beans. Take 5 pills per dose on an empty stomach with hot water mixed with brown sugar.About 1–2 hours after taking this medicine, a bowel movement will occur; the number of movements may vary from 2–3 to 6–7. Immediately afterward, drink one bowl of a concentrated decoction of sour-vein grass to stop the diarrhea;After 1–2 days, stew a pair of pig’s trotters with the following herbs: tung seed root, tonghua root, stinkweed root, qinzhi root, dawanzi root, hundred-joint lotus root, and jianshengxiao. Add a small amount of salt and consume the mixture.
Note
Avoid glutinous rice and vegetable oil for one month, and abstain from sexual activity for four months; the disease will then be completely eradicated.
Five Stagnations and Five Accumulations Pills,Chronic and acute cases of blood stasis (pale-yellow complexion, abdominal distension and pain, scanty and difficult urination), fluid retention (yellow complexion with edema and swelling), alcohol stagnation, food stagnation (chest distension or dry heaving), qi stagnation (chest constriction), and women’s blood stasis (yellow-green complexion with swelling, irregular menstruation);women with blood blisters or blood clots, food stagnation wrapped by qi, dry diseases with tidal fevers, or blocked menstruation; as well as blood stagnation, qi stagnation, alcohol stagnation, food stagnation, and parasitic stagnation causing distension in both men and women.