Eupatorium and Cuttlefish Soup，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Promotes blood circulation and dispels blood stasis. Suitable for chronic prostatitis caused by blood stasis obstruction.
those who are robust with internal accumulated heat are not suited to this formula; the blood-moving action suggests caution in early pregnancy, in heavy or prolonged menses, and in those with a bleeding tendency
Commentary
Mugwort leaves occupies the sovereign position; nature warm, flavor bitter, pungent, channeled into the Spleen, Liver, Kidney, it warms the channels, stops bleeding, disperses cold and regulates menstruation and becomes the guiding principle of the whole formula. The ministerial layer, cuttlefish (nature neutral, flavor sweet, salty, channeled into the Liver, Kidney, nourishes yin and tonifies blood), lends support that reinforces the sovereign’s main effect. Together the herbs converge on this action, in accord with the damp-heat in the lower jiao pattern.