Abdominal Pain

TCM Herbs Associated With Abdominal Pain

Abdominal Pain Is Associated With 31 TCM Herbs

Promotes movement of qi and blood, opens middle burner and unblocks the channels - irregular or scanty menses, abdominal pain or distention, pain and stiffness in the lower back and knees (wind-damp painful obstruction). Promotes urination - edema with difficult urination.

Invigorate blood, dispel blood stasis, reduces swelling, alleviate pain - trauma, sores, carbuncles, swellings, abdominal masses, painful obstruction, chest pain, abdominal pain, amenorrhea. Promotes healing of chronic non-healing sores.

Relaxes the sinews and muscles - bi syndromes in the lower back and/or lower extremities, calf cramps. Harmonizes the stomach, transforms dampness, reduces food stagnation - abdominal pain and spasms.

Promotes the movement of Qi, alleviates pain - stagnant qi of the stomach and/or spleen causing lack of appetite, abdominal pain, distention, nausea; liver or gallbladder qi stagnation causing flank pain, distention. Regulates stagnated Qi in the intestines - diarrhea, abdominal pain (common herb …

Stops bleeding (external and internal) - traumatic injury, uterine bleeding, vomiting blood, nosebleed, coughing blood, blood in urine or stool. Invigorate blood, dispels stasis - chest pain, postpartum abdominal pain, menstrual pain due to blood stasis.

Invigorate blood, dispel blood stasis, alleviate pain - trauma, carbuncles and swellings, chest and/or abdominal pain. Relax the sinews, invigorates the channels, alleviates pain - bi syndromes, rigidity, spasms. Reduces swellings, generates flesh - topically for sores, carbuncles, traumatic inju…

Breaks up blood stasis, promotes movement of Qi, alleviates pain - amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, post partum abdominal pain, abdominal masses. Dissolves food stagnation, accumulations.

Stops bleeding, transforms blood stasis - internal and external bleeding such as vomiting blood, nosebleed, blood in the urine or stool. Can stop bleeding without causing blood stasis. Traumatic injuries - alleviate pain, reduce swelling from falls, fracture, sprains. Invigorates the blood - che…

Reduces and moves food stagnation outward - accumulation of meat and/or greasy foods with distention, pain, diarrhea. Transforms blood stasis, dissipates clumps - post-partum abdominal pain, hernial disorder. Stops diarrhea (when partially charred). Hypertension.

Transforms dampness, stops vomiting - nausea, abdominal pain, diarrhea. Promotes movement of Qi, strengthens stomach. Calms the fetus, morning sickness. Prevents tonifying herbs from causing stagnation. (See also Bai Dou Kou, Yi Zhi Ren)

Reduces food stagnation, strengthens stomach - stomach cold with food stagnation or accumulation, with epigastric and abdominal fullness or distention, lack of appetite, borborygmus, and diarrhea. Aids in mineral digestion and absorption.

Opens the orifices, vaporizes phlegm, quiets the spirit - sensory orifice disorders due to phlegm, deafness, dizziness, poor memory, dulled sensation, seizures. Harmonize the middle warmer, transform turbid damp, abdominal pain. Wind-cold damp - painful obstruction, trauma and sores.

Invigorate blood, reduce swelling - post partum abdominal pain, amenorrhea, pain and swelling due to trauma. Stops bleeding - excessive post partum bleeding with vertigo and shortness of breath.

Invigorate blood, alleviate pain - pain from blood stasis and trauma, dysmenorrhea. Promotes movement of Qi and alleviates pain - chest pain, abdominal pain, menstrual pain, hernial disorders, epigastric pain.

Invigorates blood and regulates menses for gynecological issues - PMS, abdominal pain, irregular menses, abdominal masses, infertility, post partum abdominal pain w/lochioschesis, stasis from blood deficiency. Promotes urination and reduces swelling - acute systemic edema.