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Da Huang Mu Dan Pi Wan - Rhubarb and Moutan Combination

Also known as: Da Huang Mu Dan Pi Tang, Decoction of Rhubarb and Moutan Bark

Clinical Usage

  • Breaks up heat, moves blood stagnation and reduces swelling, release through the bowels - appendicitis, lower abdominal distension with pain, intestinal abscesses, hemorrhoids.
  • Post surgical infections, particularly in the colon and/or lower warmer.
  • Pelvic inflammatory disease.
  • Groin pain relieved by flexing hip and without urinary difficulty (but with symptoms similar to a UTI).

Cautions & Precautions

  • Avoid during pregnancy.
  • As this formula will cause looser stools use with caution in deficient and/or elderly patients.
  • Used for general appendicitis - avoid in infant appendicitis, or appendicitis with necrosis, peritonitis and/or parasites.
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Da Huang Mu Dan Pi Wan is in the "Purge Heat Accumulation" group within the "Drain Downward" category.

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Common Formula Ingredients

Da Huang Mu Dan Pi Wan is generally comprised of the following 5 ingredients:

Da Huang
Da Huang
Rhubarb
  • Drains heat and purges accumulations - high fever, profuse sweating, thirst, constipation, abdominal distention and pain, delirium, yellow tongue coating, full pulse which indicates intestinal heat excess or yang ming stage illness.
  • Drains heat from the blood - blood in the stool from bleeding hemorrhoids or heat in the intestine; vomting blood or nosebleed accompanied by constipation; painful eyes or fire toxin sores due to heat in the blood level.
  • Drains damp-heat via the stool - jaundice, dysentery, lin syndrome.
  • Invigorates the blood and dispels blood stasis - amenorrhea, abdominal masses, fixed pain due to blood stasis (recent and long-term blood stasis).
  • Clears heat and reduces fire toxicity - for burns, hot skin.
Da Huang is also included in 17 formulas
Dong Kui Zi
Musk Mallow Seeds
  • Promotes urination - lin syndromes (hot, xue, stone), edema without lin issues, constipation.
  • Benefits the breasts - insufficient lactation, painful swollen breasts, breast abscess.
  • Moisten and unblocks the bowels.
Dong Kui Zi is also included in 1 formula
Mang Xiao
Glauber's Salt
  • Purges accumulations, guides out stagnation - heat in the stomach and intestines with constipation; moistens dryness and softens hardness.
  • Clears heat, reduces swelling - red, swollen, painful eyes, mouth, and/or throat; red, swollen skin lesions including breast problems.
Mang Xiao is also included in 1 formula
Mu Dan Pi
Mu Dan Pi
Tree Peony Root Cortex
  • Clears Heat (excess and deficient), Cools Blood. Nose bleed, bloody sputum or vomit, subcutaneous bleeding, frequent and profuse menses due to heat in the Blood.
  • Clear Deficient Fire. Yin deficiency patterns such as steaming bone disorder after a warm-febrile disease particularly those without sweating.
  • Clears Liver Blood Stasis. Amenorrhea, abdominal masses, bruises.
  • Clears Rising Liver Fire. Headache, eye pain, flank pain, flushing, dysmenorrhea.
  • Drains Pus, Reduces Swelling. Used topically for non-draining sores. Used internally for intestinal abscess.
Mu Dan Pi is also included in 16 formulas
Tao Ren
Peach Seed
  • Breaks up blood stasis (important herb) - menstrual disorders, abdominal pain/masses, trauma, flank pain, lung abscess, intestinal abscess.
  • Moistens intestines, unblock bowels - constipation due to dry intestines.
Tao Ren is also included in 14 formulas