Blood tonics
Ba zhen tang
Eight-Treasure Decoction
- Chinese name
- 八珍汤
- Group
- Blood tonics
- English name
- Eight Precious Herbs
Replenishes qi and blood.
Indications
For fatigue, pallor, dizziness, shortness of breath, palpitations and poor appetite: anaemia, weakness, irregular menstruation from exhaustion, recovery after childbirth and chronic deficiency complaints.
Ingredients
| Ingredients | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ginseng (ren shen) | 6–9 g |
| Bai zhu (white atractylodes) | 9–12 g |
| Fu ling (poria) | 9–12 g |
| Honey-fried licorice (zhi gan cao) | 3–6 g |
| Dang gui (Chinese angelica) | 9–12 g |
| Szechuan lovage (chuan xiong) | 6–9 g |
| Prepared rehmannia (shu di huang) | 9–12 g |
| White peony root (bai shao) | 6–9 g |
| Fresh ginger (sheng jiang) | 1–3 g |
| Jujube (da zao) | 3–5 stuks |
- Tongue
- pale with a thin white coating
- Pulse
- thin and weak, or large and soft
Variations
- For deficiency of qi, blood and yang with cold: add huang qi and cinnamon bark (shi quan da bu tang).
- For irregular menstruation with fatigue and clear or white discharge: add Chinese motherwort.
Note
A combination of si wu tang and si jun zi tang.