Source: Yilin Gaicuo (Corrections on Medical Works).

Ingredients:
No. 1 Taoren (Semen Persicae) 12 g;
No. 2 Honghua (Flos Carthami) 9 g;
No. 3 Danggui (Radix Angelicae Sinensis) 9 g;
No. 4 Shengdihuang (Radix Rehmanniae) 9 g;
No.5 Chuanxiong (Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong) 5 g;
No. 6 Chishaoyao (Radix Paeoniae Rubra) 6 g;
No. 7 Niuxi (Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae) 9 g;
No. 8 Jiegeng (Radix Platycodi) 5 g;
No. 9 Chaihu (Radix Bupleuri) 3 g;
No. 10 Zhike (Fructus Aurantii) 6 g;
No. 11 Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae) 3 g.
 
Administration:
Decoct the above drugs in water for oral application.

Actions:
Promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis, and promoting flow of qi to relieve pain.
  
Clinical Application:
This recipe is indicated for blood stasis in the chest, marked by protracted chest Fain and headache at fixed location as if pricked with needles, or protracted hiccup, or dysphoria due to interior heat, or Palpitation, insomnia, irritability, hectic fever at dusk, dark-purple lips or blackish eyelids, deep-red tongue with ecchymoses, uneven or taut and tense pulse. It is applicable to chest pain as seen in angina pectoris of coronary heart disease, rheumatic heart disease, chest contusion and costal chondritis.

It may also be used in headache, vertigo arid mental depression as the result of sequelae of commotio cerebri, which are ascribed to blood stasis and qi stagnation and affect the upper body. In case of abdominal mass, add Yujin (Radix Curcumae) and Danshen (Radix Saliviae Miltiorrhizae) to promote blood flow and remove stasis and mass.

Elucidation:
This syndrome is the result of blood stasis in the chest and disorder of qi activity. It should be treated by promoting the circulation of blood and qi to remove stasis and relieve pain. The first two ingredients are essential drugs for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, which act as monarch drugs with doubled effect. Used as minister drugs, No. 6 has the action of promoting blood flow and removing blood stasis, No. 5 promoting the flow of qi and blood, and No. 7 promoting smooth flow of blood in vessels and causing blood stasis to descend, which all help bring about the effect of monarch drugs.

No. 10 and No. 8 can regulate flow of qi and No. 9 disperse the stagnated liver-qi, whose combination constitutes the effects of regulating qi function of the liver and gallbladder to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. No. 4 and No. 3 nourish blood and yin and clear away the latent heat in blood. The above five ingredients play the part of adjuvant drugs. No. 11 serves as guiding drug to mediate properties of other drugs. The compatibility of this recipe is meant to promote the circulation of blood and nourish blood, to promote the flow of qi and clear away heat simultaneously so as to prevent impairment of blood and accumulation of heat.