The effects of Salvia miltiorrhiza are activating blood circulation, regulating menstruation, relieving pain and removing blood stasis, hawthorn is to eliminate food and stagnation, move qi and dissipate blood stasis, and astragalus is to invigorate the spleen and tonify the middle, and to raise yang and lift up the sun (to raise the yang qi of the body in order to lift up the sunken organs).
1. Salvia miltiorrhiza has the efficacy of activating blood circulation and regulating menstruation, relieving pain and eliminating blood stasis, cooling blood and eliminating carbuncles (eliminating carbuncles and swellings by cooling the blood), and removing vexation and tranquilizing the mind. It should be prohibited for women with excessive menstruation and those without blood stasis, and pregnant women should take it with caution.
2. Hawthorn has the efficacy of eliminating food stagnation, promoting circulation of Qi and dispersing blood stasis, and is mainly used for treating food stagnation, dysentery and abdominal pain, chest and abdominal pain with blood stasis, dysmenorrhea, and hernia pain, etc. It should be used with caution for people with weak spleen and stomach. It should be used cautiously for people with weak spleen and stomach without stagnation and pregnant women.
3. Astragalus has the effect of tonifying the middle and strengthening the spleen, elevating the Yang and lifting the trap, benefiting the guards and consolidating the surface, diuretic, toxin and muscle (expel poisonous evils and promote muscle growth and wound healing), and it is mainly used in treating qi deficiency and self-sweating (involuntary sweating during the daytime, which is aggravated with a little movement), lung, spleen and qi deficiency and ulcers and other diseases. It should be contraindicated in cases where the surface is solid and evil, and the heat toxin is still prevalent in sores and ulcers at the beginning or after ulceration.
Specific medication should be under the guidance of a physician, and should not be used without authorization.