What is Four Substances Soup
What is Four Substances Soup? Four Substances Soup is a Han Chinese medicinal dish. It is a classic Chinese medicine prescription for tonifying and nourishing blood, which is composed of four herbs: Angelica sinensis, Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong, Paeonia lactiflora, and Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata. Four Substances Soup is a prescription handed down from traditional Chinese medicine that has the effect of tonifying blood and regulating menstruation, which can slow down women's menstrual pain.
Si Wu Tang is a common formula for tonifying blood and a basic formula for regulating menstruation. It was first used in the late Tang Dynasty in the "Immortal Authorization of Injury Renewal Secret Recipe" by Lin Daoren, and was used for traumatic injuries with blood stasis and pain. It was later included in the first national pharmacopoeia of China, Taiping Huimin Hejian Bufang of the Song Dynasty (this book was the first to record the use of Si Wu Tang in obstetrics and gynecology diseases). Later on, it was recorded and commented in the medical books such as the Song Dynasty's "Hygienic Family Treasure Obstetrics and Gynaecology - Postpartum Formula", the Ming Dynasty's "Doctor's Formula - Four Substances Soup for Regulating Menstruation", and the early Qing Dynasty's "Jiyin Compendium - Menstruation Regulating Door". Four Substances Soup was called "the first formula of gynecology", "the legislation of blood evidence", "regulating all blood evidence is its specialty" and "women's sacred medicine". "
The first formula in gynecology.
In Taiwan Province of China, the more popular Rose Four Substance Soup is made of angelica, Sichuan dome, cinnamon, cooked dihuang or raw dihuang boiled, if it belongs to the body of the hot people are suitable for drinking raw dihuang composed of Rose Four Substance Soup, if the system of the cold people are suitable for drinking the Four Substance Soup composed of cooked dihuang!
Effects and functions of Four Substances Soup
Six Substances Soup is a traditional Chinese medicine prescription that has been handed down to us, which uses four kinds of Chinese herbs: Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Radix Angelicae Sinensis and Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong. What are the effects and functions of Four Substances Soup? Generally speaking, it has the effect of tonifying blood and regulating menstruation, which can alleviate women's menstrual pain. Four Substances Soup matches the yin and soft blood tonic of Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata and Radix Paeoniae Alba (blood medicines) with the pungent Radix Angelicae Sinensis and Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong (blood medicines), combining dynamic and static elements to tonify blood without stagnating it, and to invigorate blood without harming it.
I. Effects of Four Substances Soup
Dang Gui (Angelica sinensis): its flavors are sweet, pungent, and warm, and it acts on the liver, heart, and spleen. The primary function of angelica is to tonify blood and regulate menstruation, activate blood circulation and relieve pain, in addition to the effect of skin moisturizing, playing an extremely important role in the protection of women's health.
Richlandia: sweet and slightly warm in nature, it works on the heart, liver and kidney, and has the function of tonifying blood and nourishing yin, which can deal with women's pale face, dizziness, dizziness, and irregular menstruation, and with Angelica, it can also enhance the effect of Angelica's blood tonic and blood circulation.
Ligusticum chuanxiong: the flavor is pungent, warm, the role of the liver and gallbladder, has to move qi and blood, calm and tranquilize the mind, dispel wind-dampness pain, soothe the liver and relieve depression and other effects. It is both a gynecological mainstay and a good remedy for headaches. It also affects the endocrine system and reduces premenstrual symptoms such as breast discomfort, mood anxiety and depression.
White peony: sour, bitter and slightly cold in nature, it acts on the liver and spleen, moisturizing, relieving pain, soothing the liver and strengthening the spleen. The Tang Materia Medica says it "benefits women's blood", and modern Chinese medicine believes it can nourish the blood and soften the liver, and has a very good effect on menstrual disorders.
Taiping Huimin Hejiao Bianfang (太平惠民和剂局方): It regulates Rongwei and nourishes qi and blood. It is used for treating the deficiency of Chong Ren, irregular menstrual flow, leakage in collapse, hard mass in the blood, pain in the hair, coldness in pregnancy, inappropriate management, restlessness of the fetus, more than blood, and postpartum, wind and cold, the evil dew does not go down, and there is a blockage in the mass, and pain in the abdomen, and sometimes there are chills and fever.
Xian Zhi Li Yan Ren Jian Secret Formula: nourishing blood and blood, regulating menstruation and removing blood stasis. It can be used to treat the deficiency of Chong Ren, irregular menstruation, pain in the umbilical cord and abdomen, leakage in collapse, hard mass in the abdomen, pain in the abdomen; in pregnancy, inappropriate management, fetal restlessness, abdominal pain and blood in the abdomen; in post-partum, when there is no discharge of evil dews, there is obstruction in the mass in the abdomen, pain in the abdomen, and chills and fever in the abdomen; and in bruises and injuries, there is accumulation of stasis of blood in the abdomen.
Two, the role of four things soup
1, regulating blood deficiency
General women more often occur in the problem of blood deficiency, women in menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, blood loss is large, easy to cause blood deficiency. The symptoms of blood deficiency in Chinese medicine are similar to those of anemia in Western medicine, such as pale, bloodless face, white lips, dizziness, fatigue, palpitations, etc., and in women, there is a lack of menstruation or menstrual cramps. Sometimes, when menstrual pain or menstrual flow is particularly heavy, there may be blood stagnation, which can be improved by taking 2 to 3 doses of Four Substance Soup after menstruation is over. In addition, people who are prone to cold hands and feet in winter, four things soup is also helpful.
2, regulating female physiological period
Si Wu Tang is a classic Chinese medicine, known as the "gynecological first party", on the female physiological problems such as more and less, delayed to early, etc. have a certain role in regulating the improvement.
3, beauty
Throughout the ages, four things soup is respected by countless women, modern women due to the pressure of the workplace, the life of the tedious, often make the skin yellow, the face is not good. Four Substance Soup can make your beauty look last all the time and keep your skin hydrated and smooth.
4, detoxify the liver and strengthen the spleen
Spleen deficiency, liver fire, usually manifested in the lack of appetite, easy to lose temper. The long-term lack of appetite and poor sleep quality will aggravate the symptoms of liver fire, and too much liver fire will affect the appetite. Four Substances Soup can ease the liver and strengthen the spleen, which brings good news to those who are emotionally volatile, often get angry over trivial matters, and always feel that their qi is not in order.
The standard formula of Four Substances Soup
The standard formula of Four Substances Soup is 12 grams of Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, 12 grams of Radix Angelicae Sinensis, 12 grams of Radix Paeoniae Alba, 12 grams of Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong, a combination of the four medicinal herbs, which is regarded as the first medicinal formula for gynecology.
Si Wu Tang is a common formula for tonifying blood and is also a basic formula for regulating menstruation. It was first used in the late Tang Dynasty in the "Secret Recipe of Renewal of the Immortal's License to Treat Injuries", which was used for traumatic injuries with blood stasis and pain. It was later included in the first national pharmacopoeia of China, the Taiping Huimin Hejiaobu Fang of the Song Dynasty. Four Substance Soup was called "the first formula of gynecology", "the legislation of blood evidence", "regulating all blood evidence is its specialty" and "the holy medicine for women" by later generations of doctors. "and so on.