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Xiao Huo Luo Wan - Minor Invigorate Channels Pills

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Formulas Related by Clinical Functions

Xiao Huo Luo Wan is in the "Dispel Wind-Dampness" group within the "Expel Dampness" category.

Other Formulas in "Dispel Wind-Dampness" (5)

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Common Formula Ingredients

Xiao Huo Luo Wan is generally comprised of the following 10 ingredients:

Chuan Xiong
Chuan Xiong
Szechuan Lovage Root
  • Invigorate blood, promote movement of Qi - any blood stasis pattern, important for gynecological issues (amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, difficult labor, lochioschesis).
  • Expels wind and alleviates pain - headache (temporal, vertex), dizziness, painful obstructions, skin issues.
  • Headache - moves qi upward and alleviates pain; headaches due to wind, heat, cold, blood deficiency.
Chuan Xiong is also included in 43 formulas
Dan Nan Xing
Jack in the Pulpit Rhizome and Bile
  • Transforms phlegm heat, extinguishes wind, stops convulsions - muscle spasms/cramps, infantile convulsions, seizure disorders, facial paralysis, stroke (CVA) from wind and phlegm obstruction.
  • Zhi (or Tian) Nan Xing is prepared with fresh ginger and Dan Nan Xing is prepared with cow bile.
Dan Nan Xing is also included in 4 formulas
Dang Gui
Dang Gui
Chinese Angelica Root
  • Tonifies the blood, regulates menses - pallid, ashen complexion, tinnitus, blurred vision, palpitations, irregular menses, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea.
  • Invigorates/harmonizes the blood, disperses cold - important herb to stop pain due to blood stasis - abdominal pain, trauma, carbuncles due to blood stasis, chronic bi.
  • Moistens dry intestines due to blood deficiency.
  • Reduces swellings, expels pus, generates flesh - sores.
Dang Gui is also included in 66 formulas
Di Long
Earthworm
  • Drains liver heat, stops spasms an convulsions - high fever with convulsions and seizures.
  • Clears lung heat - wheezing.
  • Clears heat in the channels and promotes movement - swollen, painful joints with limited range of motion, sequelae of wind-stroke.
  • Clears heat and promotes urination - hot painful urinary dysfunction, edema.
  • Hypertension associated with liver yang rising.
Di Long is also included in 3 formulas
Luo Shi Teng
Star Jasmine Stem
  • Dispels wind-hot-damp bi and spasms of the sinews.
  • Cools the blood and reduces swellings - toxic sores, sore throat.
Mo Yao
Mo Yao
Myrrh
  • 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.
Mo Yao is also included in 7 formulas
Ru Xiang
Ru Xiang
Frankincense
  • 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 injury.
Ru Xiang is also included in 6 formulas
Si Gua Luo
Dried Vegetable Sponge
  • Expels wind, invigorates the channels - damp heat obstructing the channels and muscles causing sore chest and flank areas, sore muscles and sinews, stiff joints, traumatic injury, breast abscess.
  • Expels phlegm - cough due to lung heat with high fever, chest pain, sticky sputum.
  • Expels summer heat, promotes urination.
  • Swollen-painful breasts, insufficient lactation.
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
Wang Bu Liu Xing
Wang Bu Liu Xing
Vaccaria Seeds
  • Invigorate blood and channels - upper body - promote lactation, lower body - unblocks menses, amenorrhea due to blood stasis.
  • Swelling - breast or testicular swellings with pain.
Wang Bu Liu Xing is also included in 3 formulas