Hong Hua
Carthami Flos
acrid, warm
PRIMARY FUNCTION:
Circulate Blood
CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Amenorrhea
- Abdominal pain
- Dizziness
- Retained lochia
- Abdominal masses
- Trauma
- Disorders of the skin
- Sores
- Carbuncles
- Erythema
- Chest pain
- Measles
Hong Hua is acrid to get the blood moving and warm to treat cold stagnant blood patterns. It enters the liver and heart systems. Its affinity to the heart allows it to treat chest fullness and angina pain symptoms.
Hong Hua enters the liver to move blood from liver blood stagnation and can treat many gynecological disorders as well as some skin conditions.
Channels: heart, liver
COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL POSSIBILITIES:
- Masses
- Measles
- Rash
- Carbuncles
- Erythema
- Trauma
- Difficult labor
- Menstrual disorders
- Antitumor
- Skin sores
- Headache
- Angina pain
- Arthritis
- Dyslipidemia
- Stroke
Formulas:
- Bu Yang Huan Wu Tang
- Fu Yuan Huo Xue Tang
- Ge Xia Zhu Yu Tang
- Qi Li San
- Shen Tong Zhu Yu Tang
- Shu Gan Tang
- Tao Hong Si Wu Tang
- Tong Qiao Huo Xue Tang
- Tong You Tang
- Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang
Contraindications: do not prescribe Hong Hua to patients that are pregnant or to patients with bleeding disorders
Zoo Image: a Robin Hood roadrunner with a rash shoots an arrow at a females locked crotch and hits the enemies chest