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[Nature and flavor and meridians entered] Sweet, pungent, bitter, warm in nature; entered the liver, heart and spleen meridians.

【Function】Nourishes blood; promotes blood circulation; regulates menstruation and relieves pain; moisturizes and lubricates the intestines.

[Indications] Mainly used for blood deficiency symptoms; irregular menstruation; amenorrhea; dysmenorrhea; mass accumulation; metrorrhagia; abdominal pain due to deficiency and cold; paralysis; numbness of the skin; constipation; heaviness after dysentery; carbuncle, ulcer, and injury from falls

【Medical records】

"Ben Jing": "It is used to treat cough, reverse breathing, fever, cold and heat, washing the skin, women's miscarriage, infertility, various malignant sores and wounds, boil and drink it."

"Bie Lu": "Warms the middle and stops pain, removes internal blood congestion, treats spasms and sweating caused by stroke, treats dampness and arthritis, treats pathogenic qi and coldness, nourishes the five internal organs, and builds muscle."

"Materia Medica": "It can stop vomiting, cold and heat caused by asthenia, break up old blood, treat metrorrhagia in women, relieve coldness in the stomach and intestines, replenish deficiencies, and stop diarrhea and abdominal pain. Boil the juice and drink it to treat warm malaria, treat women's back pain caused by blood loss, and treat unbearable toothache. It can be used for patients with asthenia and coldness."

"Rihuazi Bencao": "It can cure all kinds of wind, all kinds of blood, replenish all kinds of fatigue, break up bad blood, nourish new blood and cure symptoms and habits."

"Zhenzhu Nang": "The head breaks the blood. The body circulates the blood, and the tail stops the bleeding ("Tangye Bencao" quotes it as 'the head stops the bleeding, the body harmonizes the blood, and the tip breaks the blood')"

Li Gao: "Danggui root can cure ailments, break up bad blood, and treat postpartum bad blood rushing up, remove all sores, swellings, and treat wounds with bad blood, warm the middle, moisten dryness, and relieve pain."

Wang Haogu: "It is used to treat paralysis, lameness, heat a