What are the symptoms of cold blood stasis

Nowadays, more and more people are in a sub-healthy state, which will more or less cause some diseases, such as cold stagnation and blood stasis. This situation is defined in traditional Chinese medicine. When it happens, patients will usually feel a different symptom in their body. The most common one is pain on their skin. However, the symptom of pain is wandering, not fixed in one part, so you should go to the hospital for appropriate treatment in time when the condition becomes more serious.

Clinical manifestations

People with blood stasis constitution often have dull complexion, rough brown skin, pigmentation, or purple spots, dull lips, bluish purple tongue or petechiae, and a thin and wiry pulse. Different symptoms often appear depending on the location of the lesions in the internal organs and meridians blocked by blood stasis. Tendency to disease: prone to symptoms (symptoms: lumps are tangible, fixed and painful in a certain place; masses: lumps are irregular, sometimes gather and sometimes disperse, and the pain is not in a certain place), pain and blood disorders.

1. Stasis in the lungs

Symptoms: chest pain, cough, shortness of breath, even wheezing and inability to lie flat, chest tightness, palpitations, dark purple tongue or ecchymosis, and wiry and hesitant pulse. Treatment principle: Promote blood circulation and regulate Qi, remove blood stasis and dredge meridians. Main recipe: Peach kernel and safflower decoction. Commonly used medicines: peach kernel, safflower, angelica, Chuanxiong, red peony root, mulberry bark, coix seed, etc.

2. Stasis in the heart

Symptoms: chest tightness and pain, pain radiating to shoulders and back, palpitations, bluish lips, bluish tongue or ecchymoses, petechiae, sluggish or intermittent pulse. Treatment principle: activate blood circulation, regulate qi and unclog meridians. Main prescription: Xuefu Zhuyu Decoction. Commonly used medicines: peach kernel, safflower, angelica, Chuanxiong, Salvia miltiorrhiza, cinnamon twig, red peony root, Citrus aurantium, Curcuma, etc.

3. Stasis in the stomach

Symptoms: stomachache, severe pain when pressed, aggravated after eating or with a lump, worse at night, bloody stool or hematemesis, ecchymosis and petechiae on the tongue, and a wiry and hesitant pulse. Treatment principle: Removing blood stasis, unblocking meridians, stopping bleeding, regulating qi and harmonizing the stomach. Main prescription: Shixiao Powder combined with Danshen Drink. Commonly used medicines: Puhuang, Aconiti Lateralis Preparata, Salvia miltiorrhiza, Santalum album, Amomum villosum, Corydalis yanhusuo, etc.

4. Stasis in the liver

Symptoms: pain and lumps in the ribs, worse at night, dark purple tongue or with spots, stringy and wiry pulse. Treatment principle: remove blood stasis, dredge meridians, soothe the liver and regulate Qi. Main prescription: Gexia Zhuyu Decoction. Commonly used medicines: peach kernel, safflower, angelica, Chuanxiong, Salvia miltiorrhiza, Cyperus rotundus, red peony root, Linderae scutellariae, Citrus aurantium, Corydalis yanhusuo, etc.