Xiao Yao San (Rambling Powder)
- Regulate and Harmonize the Liver and Spleen
- Chai Hu
- Bo He
- Bai Shao
- Dang Gui
- Bai Zhu
- Fu Ling
- Zhi Gan Cao
- Wei Jiang
- Chai Hu and Bo He spread the Lv Qi to relieve constraint.
- Bai Shao and Dang Gui nourish the Blood and Soften the Liver.
- Bai Zhu, Fu Ling, Zhi Gan Cao, and Wei Jiang strengthen the Sp, tonify the Qi, and harmonize MJ.
Function: Spreads the Lv Qi to relieve constraint, nourishes the blood, and strengthens Spleen.
Indications: Lv Qi constraint with Blood deficiency and Sp Qi deficiency.
Symptoms: Hypochondriac pain, headache, dizziness, dry mouth and throat, fatigue, and poor appetite. There may also be alternating chills and fever, or menoxenia (irregular menstruation) and distended breasts.
Pulse: Wiry and deficient
Clinical Applications:
- This is the representative formula used for regulating the Lv, nourishing the blood and strengthening the Sp. This formula is also often used for regulating mestruation.
- The key symptoms are hypochondriac pain, fatigue, poor appetite, irregular menstruation, wiry and deficient pulse.
- For cases with severe Lv Qi stagnation, add Xiang Fu and Chen Pi.
- For severe Blood deficiency add Shu Di Huang or Sheng Di Huang (Hei Xiao Yao San).
- For Lv Qi stagnation that transforms into Fire, add Mu Dan Pi and Zhi Zi (Jia Wei Xiao Yao San). The symptoms are irritability, or tidal fever with night sweating, or headache with dry red eyes, or dark red cheeks and dry mouth, or irregular menstruation with lower abdominal pain, or difficult painful urination. Red tongue with thin yellow coating, wiry, rapid, and deficient pulse. This formula is commonly used for menorrhagia or nosebleed during menstruation.
- Currently used for chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, gallstone, peptic ulcer, chronic gastritis, neurosis, menopausal syndrome, fibrocystic breast, lobular hyperplasia of breast, PMS, pelvic inflammation, functional uterine bleeding, fibroid etc. due to Lv Qi stagnation with Blood deficiency and Spleen deficiency.