Blood depletion disease originates from

Huangdi Neijing

. The clinical symptoms are fullness and discomfort in the chest and hypochondrium

poor diet

hemoptysis

blood in the urine

blood in the stool

even in woman with amenorrhea. The

Siwuzeigu Yiluru

Pill can be used to treat blood depletion disease

although physicians of later generations had different opinions on the etiology

pathogenesis

treatment

and prescription of blood depletion disease. It was even believed that the cuttlefish bone in

Siwuzeigu Yiluru

Pill has astringent effects

while India madder root is used to promote blood circulation. However

astringent is contrary to the effect of promoting blood circulation

and difficult to grasp clinically

the classic prescription almost disappeared. Zhang Xichun

a famous physician of the Republic of China

inherited the spirit of

Huangdi Neijing

and integrated traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine. He provided innovative research on blood depletion disease in his representative work

Records of Tradition Chinese and Western Medicine in Combination

which can be roughly summarized into two points as new prescriptions for ancient diseases and new use of ancient herbal prescriptions. Our team attempted to sort the new prescriptions created by Zhang Xichun to treat blood depletion disease

including

Lichong

Decoction

Lichong

Pill

Zisheng

Decoction

Zisheng Tongmai

Decoction

Liquan

Decoction

Huayu Tongjing

Powder

and

Shiquan Yuzhen

Decoction

from the perspective of new prescriptions for ancient diseases. He believed that stagnation of heart and spleen deficiency and blood stasis underlie the pathogenesis of blood depletion disease

and suggested that the most effective treatment would be to strengthen the vital energy and eliminate the pathogenic factor

while concurrently promoting digestion

removing blood stasis and removing stagnation

nourishing yin for reducing fire. However

we also aimed to discuss Zhang Xichun’s idea of removing the limitation of the contradictory efficacy of cuttlefish bone and India madder root in the new use of the ancient herbal prescription. We used the bidirectional regulating effect of the medicine to remove stagnation and astringency to treat diseases such as morbid vaginal discharge

metrorrhagia

difficulty and pain in micturition

hemafecia

and hematuria

which broadened the applicability of the ancient prescription. These points provide new ideas for the clinical treatment of gynecopathy and andrological disease

which broaden the applicability of the ancient prescription and have important guiding significance for clinical practice.