Blood stasis

Blood Stasis

By Lan Miles 

     邱雪兰 

    Qiu Xuelan Ph.D

Blood stasis is the underlying syndrome which leads to a host of diseases ranging from chronic pain, to endometriosis, firbroids and uterine cancer.  For women blood stasis can cause hormonal fluctuations, painful periods and systemic pain in the body of unknown origin that feels like a poking or stabbing pain.

Herbs which affect "blood stasis" do more that simply increase circulation.  They affect prostaglandins and cellular receptors.  Depending on how the receptors are arranged these can affect:

• Uterine contraction
• Cell growth
• Inflammatory mediation
• Hormone regulation
• Sensitize spinal neurons to pain
• blood clotting and thinning
• blood vessel dilation and constriction
• Reduce pressure in the eye socket
• Affect the hypothalamus to produce or decrease inflammation and fever
• Increase kidney filtration rate

 How did the Chinese know that all of these complex problems were related to blood stasis?  The answer is actually quite simple.  It comes down to blood clots and bruises.  Both are associated with pain and inflammation and both are purple and involve sticky blood.  The following photo is of endometriosis, a condition that Chinese Medicine treats quite well.  It is a simple problem that becomes complex.

1. Dead tissue doesn't communicate and gets blocked off.  This can happen from cold, trauma or disease. 
2. Blocked off areas die.  Dead tissue should get cycled out, but doesn't always.
3. Repeat steps one and two until you develop a systemic disease.  

                                 Eventually you get a small problem that becomes systemic.

Notice those dark purple spots?  Kind of looks like stuck blood right?

 

 
 Blood stasis will generally occur with dark menstrual clots, stabbing pain, poor circulation marked by slightly blue or purple nails, floaters in the visual field and darker veins under the tongue.  The tongue and lips may also be slightly purple.  If you have some of these symptoms you should see a Chinese Medicine Doctor and look into getting a formula based on "Blood Mover"


This is the base formula.

川芎	Chuan Xiong	Sichuan lovage root, cnidium, chuanxiong root	3	grams
桃仁	Tao Ren	peach kernel, persica	6	grams
紅花	Hong Hua	safflower flower, carthamus	3	grams
熟地黄	Shu Di Huang	cooked rehmannia root, prepared Chinese foxglove root	6	grams
當歸	Dang Gui	tangkuei, Chinese angelica root	6	grams
白芍	Bai Shao	white peony root, peony	6	grams

Blood Mover by HerbmedRx

This formula increases macrophage activity to allow your body to clean dead tissue out and then signals bone marrow to create fresh red blood cells.  It not only improves circulation within the blood vessels, but also maintains healthy circulation of healthy, oxygen carrying red blood cells.

What do you think caused this?

Well..looks kind of like a bruise...I wonder if...

Henoch-Schönlein purpura:  Associated with chronic pain and vascular problems.  How might you treat it?  You guessed it...move blood.  A modified for of blood mover is used to treat this disease.

How about now?

Yes its brown and looks like a dead tree, but look at the other nails.  They are not very dark or purple  This is skin cancer. Only specialists can safely use blood moving herbs with cancer patients.  Most people will only help the cancer spread using this formula.

What about these?

Yes, most pain and bruise formulas use blood mover as a base formula.

Yes she's purple, but thats probably photoshop.  In any case, you never use blood movers when you have a runny nose, or even a tickle in the back of your throat.  It allows diseases deeper entry into your body.  This formula it not effective at all for the common cold.

Never move blood while pregnant.

What else can you do to move blood?

 This method is effective for moving blood as it crosses the blood ocean acupuncture point

Often this moves blood to the muscles, more than evenly through the system.  It really depends on intensity.  Easy jogging is good, strenuous bad.

This will help especially when you make a soak out of blood moving herbs

So will this

The best results include taking herbs internally and then doing some form of external therapy a half hour afterwards so that the herbs are affecting your blood while you mechanistically aid the herbs to get deeper into the body to help cycle out old tissue and replace it with with vibrant life carrying red blood cells.

Blood vessels evidently look like Ikea furniture.