Yu Bai Pi San 【Source】Volume 16 of "Feminine Great Good Formulas." 【Composition】60 g each of elm bark, licorice root; 30 g of winter purslane seed 【Usage】Coarsely grind. Take 6 g per dose, use 150 ml of water, boil down to 105 ml, strain, and take warm. 【Function】Facilitate delivery, promote labor. 【Indications】Difficult childbirth, dry and constricted birth canal, wiry pulse. 【Discussion】Elm bark is slippery and removes adhesions; raw licorice is sweet and clears heat; winter purslane seed is slippery, promotes fetal descent and opens orifices. Prepared as a powder and decocted in water, it makes the birth canal smooth, thus preventing dryness and constriction. |