Chinese medicine believes that women are born with a liver, which is yin and yang, and the liver stores blood and yin, which is the main way to dispel turbidity and flirt. Therefore, lesbians are prone to abnormal functions such as storing blood in the liver and flirting, such as menstrual disorder, depression, hypochondriac pain, impatience and irritability. Liver qi attacking the spleen and stomach will lead to weakness of the spleen and stomach, anorexia and abdominal distension.
Taiping Huimin Hejiju Prescription points out that Xiaoyao Powder can treat "blood deficiency and fatigue, vexation and fever, limb pain, dizziness, redness of heart and cheeks, dry mouth and throat, fever and night sweats, anorexia, blood-heat pulse, irregular menstruation, abdominal pain, and cold and heat like malaria. In addition, the female blood in the treatment room is weak and yin deficiency, Wei Rong is not harmonious, phlegm is hot and humid, and the body is thin and steaming. "
Thus, Xiaoyao San has a wide range of treatment, but the key is to grasp the pathogenesis of liver deficiency, blood deficiency and spleen deficiency. In the prescription, Radix Bupleuri soothes the liver and regulates qi, Radix Angelicae Sinensis and Radix Paeoniae nourish liver blood, Poria, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens and Radix Glycyrrhizae, and Herba Menthae clear liver and purge fire. If the liver fire is serious, add Cortex Moutan and Fructus Gardeniae, that is, Jiawei Xiaoyao Powder; If liver disease is kidney deficiency, liver and kidney deficiency, backache and fatigue, and dry mouth at night, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata is added, that is, Black Xiaoyao Powder.