Support Life
A stabilizing tonic appropriate throughout the entire pregnancy, nourishing Yang, Yin, Qi and Ying while also supporting Jueyin uterus, and relaxing Wood. It is strengthening, and calming to the stomach, the womb and the emotions. It is very helpful in the treatment of morning Read more... |
Overactive Uterus
This stabilizing formula helps to calm the fetus and relax excessive contraction. It nourishes blood, yang, qi and nutritive while giving a container to overactive ministerial fire, thus having a calming and stabilizing effect on the womb. Read more... |
Moisten Jueyin
Based off of the Jin Gui Yao Lue formulae, Xiong Gui Jiao Ai Tang and Dang Gui San, this formula is appropriate for "calming the fetus" in women with a dry jueyin and manifestations of restless ministerial fire which has lost its root as a result of blood dryness. It gently moves stasis while moistening the blood. It addresses the yangming/jueyin axis in order to preserve the merging of yin and yang, and therefore the circulation of fire and water. Differential diagnosis: if there are no signs of stasis... Read more... |
The Waiting Month
37 weeks and onward. This late pregnancy formula, inspired by Sun Simiao’s Dan Shen Wan as well as several Shang Han Za Bing Lun formulae, strongly encourages the movement of the East, fanning ministerial fire in the jueyin uterus realm so as to prepare for birth. It also supports yang and the shaoyin pivot by assisting yang submersion as well as relieving the North of any fluid accumulation (which is common in late pregnancy). It is thus a great way to nourish yang and blood before the birth, and postpartum. Read more... |
Topsy Turvy
30 weeks and onward. Encourages the downward descent of yang into yin with the xuan fu hua method so yang and yin can unite in shaoyin, in general (strengthening the shaoyin pivot, blood and qi) as well as in particular when a breech baby’s yang vertex needs encouragement to reach the mother’s yin perineum. Read more... 
Water Overtaking Fire
For manifestations of water overtaking fire, water accumulation anywhere in the body, whether the flesh or the womb. It supports the transformation of water, generates yang with sweet and acrid, submerges yang into yin with xuan fu hua (the fire herb of the fire class in the Tang Ye Jing), and disinhibits fluids to support shaoyin. Read more... |
Gather the Dew
Generates fluids in the entire body, including the womb. It addresses the proper allocation of fluids, drying that which needs to be dried (Taiyin) while moistening that which needs more fluids (Yangming, Jueyin). It can be used to normalize fluid physiology, as well as calm the spirit and encourage the consolidating direction of the West in the second half of pregnancy, Read more... 
Dragon Rising With Water For manifestations of water overtaking fire, edema complicated by the excessive upward ascension of ministerial fire: fluid accumulation accompanied by signs of restlessness and heat in the upper. This formula disinhibits the fluids and supports the kidneys. It helps descend and submerge yang into yin with xuan fu hua, the fire herb of the fire class in the Tang Ye Jing, and by using
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Mother's Milk
Production and let-down. This formula activates the fluids condensing capacity of yangming metal of the West and nourishes blood, so as to generate abundant milk via the yangming/jueyin axis. It helps replenish blood and yang in the postpartum period. It is based off of the famous postpartum recovery formula of the Jin Gui Yao Lue, Read more... |
Clear Breast This formula clears heat in the breasts on the shaoyang and yangming levels, with particular attention to healing flesh and encouraging flow; it also generates yang and yin, and nourishes fluids so as to support the mother in her recovery as well as in the lactation process.
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