The more you supplement, the more stagnant you become.

This is a rather typical case that I saw recently. The patient had studied Chinese medicine for several years, so she judged herself as having a deficiency of both qi and blood, and took her own formula for a year, but at the time of consultation, she complained that her symptoms had not improved but had worsened, including restlessness, distension and fullness in the chest, irregular menstruation, constipation, and a dark red tongue with greasy coating. The tongue was dark red with greasy coating, and the pulse was thin]. The prescriptions are all qi-supplementing and blood-supporting products, such as astragalus, ginseng, angelica and aconite, mostly ginseng and nourishing the rong, the ten perfect tonic formula, in contrast, the symptoms are identified as liver and qi disharmony, dysregulation of the flushing of the actual evidence, more benefit to the qi and blood, will be repeated its stagnation of qi and blood, how can it be effective? We gave him a formula of draining liver qi and regulating the flushing process, such as Xiang Xiang, Mu Xiang, Qing Chen Pi, Chai Hu, Hou Pu, Yu Jin, Hong Hua, Chuan Xiong, etc. The symptoms were greatly reduced after a few doses, and he is still under treatment.