From: Traditional Chinese Medicine for adjuvant treatment of breast cancer: Taohong Siwu Decoction
TCM | REHMANNIAE RADIX (Dihuang, DH) | ANGELICAE SINENSIS RADIX (Danggui, DG) | PAEONIAE RADIX ALBA (Baishao, BS) | CHUANXIONG RHIZOMA (Chuanxiong, CX) | PERSICAE SEMEN (Taoren, TR) | CARTHAMI FLOS (Honghua, HH) |
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Origin | Rehmannia glutinosa Libosch | Angelica sinensis(Oliv.)Diels | Paeonia lactiflora Pall | Ligusticum chuanxiong Hort | Prunus persica(L.)Batsch or Prunus davidiana(Carr.)Franch | Carthamus tinctorius L |
Medicinal parts | Root tuber | Root | Root | Rhizome | Seed | Flower |
Producing area | Henan, Liaoning, Hebei, Shandong Province | Gansu, Yunnan, Sichuan Province | Sichuan, Zhejiang, Anhui Province | Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou Province | Sichuan, Shaanxi, Shandong, Hebei Province | Sichuan, Henan, Hunan, Xinjiang Province |
Preparation | Bake slowly until about 80% dry | firework slowly smokes dry | After boiled in boiling water, remove skin and dry | Sun-dried | Sun-dried | Shade or sun-dried |
Dosage | 10–15 g | 6–12 g | 6–15 g | 3–10 g | 5–10 g | 3–10 g |
Flavor and meridian tropism | Sweet, cold; heart, liver, and kidney | Sweet, pungent, and warm; liver, heart, and spleen | Sweet, pungent, warm; liver and spleen | pungent, and warm; liver, gallbladder | Bitter, sweet, calm; heart, liver, large intestine meridian | Sweet, pungent; heart, liver |
Efficacy | To clear heat and cool blood, nourish yin and promote body fluid | To Replenish blood; promote blood circulation; regulate menstruation and relieve pain; moisturize dryness and smooth intestines | To expel wind and dampness, detoxify and antispasmodic | Invigorate qi to relieve depression, eliminate wind and dampness, promote blood circulation and relieve pain | To promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, moisten the intestines and laxative, relieve cough and relieve asthma | To activate blood circulation, remove blood stasis and relieve pain |
Traditional uses | Used for heat into the camp blood, warm toxins and spots, vomiting blood, blemishes, and heat injury to the yin | Various syndromes of blood deficiency; irregular menstruation; amenorrhea; dysmenorrhea | Blood deficiency, irregular menstruation, abdominal pain, limb contraction pain, headache and dizziness | Wind-cold headache, dizziness, hypochondriac pain, abdominal pain, cold arthralgia and tendons, amenorrhea | Amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, lumps, pulmonary carbuncle, intestinal carbuncle, fall and flutter injury, dry intestines, constipation, cough and wheezing | Treatment of amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, dystocia, stillbirth |
Main chemical composition | Catalpol, Rehmannia Glucoside D | Ferulic acid, ligustilide | Paeoniflorin, albiflorin, total glucosides of paeony | Ferulic acid, ligustilide, ligustrazine | Amygdalin | Hydroxysafflor yellow A, kaempferol, quercetin |
Pharmacological action | Blood system, cardiovascular system, orthopedics, central nervous system and immune system | Anti-tumor, anti-oxidation, inhibition of angiogenesis, anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving | Protecting cardiovascular, anti-inflammatory, and anti-oxidation | Anti-tumor, anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidation, and protection of the nervous system | Cardio-cerebral vascular protection, inhibits atherosclerosis, it can anticoagulant, inhibit platelet aggregation and improve blood rheology | Anti-myocardial ischemia, regulating hemodynamics, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, anti-oxidation, and regulating immunity |