The basic formula for tonifying Blood is Si Wu Tang. It is composed of white peony, angelica sinensis, radix Rehmanniae Praeparata and Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong. Functions: tonifying blood and harmonizing blood. The symptoms include palpitation, insomnia, dizziness, lack of color, thinness, weakness, irregular menstruation, scanty or closed menstruation, pain in the umbilicus and abdomen, or even hard lumps in the abdomen, pale tongue, and thin or astringent pulse.
Four first derivative formula (1) Gum and Ai Tang
Composition: Four Substance Tang with Gum, Ai Ye, and Glycyrrhiza
Functions: nourishing blood, stopping bleeding, regulating menstruation, and stabilizing the fetus.
Treatment: women with deficiency of Chong Ren, blood deficiency with cold evidence.
(2) Peach and Red Four Substance Soup
Composition: Four Substance Soup with peach kernel and safflower
Functions: nourishing the blood and activating the blood.
Treatment: blood deficiency with blood stasis.
(3) Bazhen Tang
Composition: four things plus four jun (ginseng, poria, atractylodes, licorice, white peony, ripened land, angelica, chuanxiong).
Function: Benefiting Qi and tonifying Blood.
Attacks: deficiency of Qi and Blood.
(4) Sheng Gui Tang
Composition: four things plus ginseng, astragalus.
Functions: tonifying qi, replenishing blood, taking in blood.
Treatment: weakness of qi and blood, qi does not regulate blood evidence.