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Gongxuening, Gongning, Gongxueting, Gongliuning, Gongliuxiao, Zhixuening, Shengxuening, Weixuening, Xuening, Xinxuening…
Every time I recommend these medicines to patients, I emphasize loudly several times, because there was a female university student who bought the wrong one. If some highly educated young people are like this, what about others.
Gongxuening Capsules consist of a single traditional medicine, Chuanlianzi, which has the effects of cooling blood and stopping bleeding, clearing heat and removing dampness, promoting blood circulation to relieve pain.
Used for metrorrhagia, menorrhagia, postpartum or post-abortion poor uterine contraction bleeding, and functional uterine bleeding characterized by blood-heat exuberance, as well as lower abdominal pain, lumbosacral pain, and increased leukorrhea caused by damp-heat and blood stasis of chronic pelvic inflammation. It can treat metrorrhagia and gynecological inflammation.
Gongning Granules are composed of Rubia cordifolia, Puhuang (Typha pollen), Sanqi (Panax notoginseng), Diyu (Sanguisorba officinalis), Huangqin (Scutellaria baicalensis), Dihuang (Rehmannia glutinosa), Xianhecao (Agrimonia pilosa), Haipiaoxiao (cuttlefish bone), Dangshen (Codonopsis pilosula), Baishao (Paeonia lactiflora), and Gancao (licorice).
They have effects of activating blood to remove stasis, clearing heat, stopping bleeding, and consolidating menstruation. Used for menorrhagia and prolonged menstruation caused by blood stasis and heat syndrome; abnormal uterine bleeding after intrauterine device placement with the above syndrome. Mainly treats metrorrhagia.
Gongxueting Granules consist of Huangqi (Astragalus membranaceus), Shengma (Cimicifuga heracleifolia), Dangshen, Yimucao (Leonurus cardiaca), Puhuang, Zhike (Aurantii Fructus), Longgu (fossilized bone), Muli (oyster shell), Danggui (Angelica sinensis), Nuzhenzi (Ligustrum lucidum), and Hanliancao (Eclipta prostrata).
They have effects of tonifying the spleen and kidney, activating stasis, and stopping bleeding. Used for menorrhagia and metrorrhagia caused by spleen and kidney deficiency, qi deficiency, and blood stasis.
Gongliuning Capsules contain Haizao (Sargassum), Sanleng (Sparganium stoloniferum), Shemei (Rubus chingii), Shijianchuan (Selaginella doederleinii), Banzhilian (Scutellaria barbata), Quanshen, Dangshen, Shanyao (Dioscorea opposita), Guyaye (barley sprout), and Gancao.
They have effects of softening hardness and resolving masses, promoting blood circulation and removing stasis, and supporting the body’s upright qi. Used for uterine fibroids (intramural, subserosal) with qi stagnation and blood stasis syndrome; symptoms include prolonged menstruation, excessive menstrual volume, dark purple menstrual color with clots, lower abdominal or breast pain, etc.
Gongliuxiao Capsules consist of Muli (oyster shell), processed Xiangfu (Cyperus rotundus), Sanleng, Ezhu (Curcuma zedoaria), Tubiechong (Eupolyphaga sinensis), Xianhecao, Dangshen, Baizhu (Atractylodes macrocephala), Baihuasheshecao (Oldenlandia diffusa), Mudanpi (Paeonia suffruticosa), and Wuzhuyu (Evodia rutaecarpa).
They have effects of activating blood to remove stasis and soften hardness to resolve masses. Used for uterine fibroids with qi stagnation and blood stasis syndrome; symptoms include heavy menstruation with large and small blood clots, prolonged menstruation, abdominal pain, dark red tongue or purple spots and ecchymosis on the edges, thin wiry or thin choppy pulse.
Zhixuening Tablets consist of Sanqi, Zizhucao (Lysimachia foenum-graecum), Portulaca oleracea, Huaihua (Sophora japonica flower), Xueyutan (charred blood residue), and Huaruishi.
They have effects of stopping bleeding, reducing swelling, and removing blood stasis. Used for functional uterine bleeding, metrorrhagia, epistaxis, hemoptysis, hematemesis, and other bleeding symptoms.
Shengxuening Tablets are made from silkworm excrement extract.
They have the effect of tonifying qi and blood. Used for iron-deficiency anemia with qi and blood deficiency syndrome; symptoms include sallow or pale complexion and skin, fatigue and lack of strength, dizziness, tinnitus, palpitations, shortness of breath, pale or swollen tongue, weak pulse, etc.
Weixuening Granules consist of Huzhang (Polygonum cuspidatum), fried Baishao, Xianhecao, Dihuang, Jixueteng (Spatholobus suberectus), cooked Dihuang, Mohanlian (Lithocarpus polystachyus), and Taizishen (Pseudostellaria heterophylla).
They have effects of nourishing yin and blood, clearing heat, and cooling blood. Used for bleeding caused by yin deficiency and blood heat; thrombocytopenia with the above symptoms.
Xuening Capsules are made from peanut red skin.
Primarily used to stop bleeding. Used for hemophilia, thrombocytopenic purpura, and other visceral bleeding disorders.
Xinxuening is composed of extracts from Pueraria (kudzu root) and hawthorn.
It activates blood circulation to remove stasis, unblocks the collaterals, and relieves pain. Used for chest obstruction, dizziness caused by heart blood stasis and brain collateral obstruction, as well as coronary heart disease, hypertension, angina pectoris, hyperlipidemia, and other symptoms above.
In summary, choose Gongxuening for blood-heat metrorrhagia or pelvic inflammatory disease. Choose Gongning for blood-heat combined with blood stasis metrorrhagia. Choose Gongxueting for spleen deficiency metrorrhagia. For uterine fibroids causing metrorrhagia or prolonged menstruation (qi stagnation and blood stasis), choose Gongliuning or Gongliuxiao. Zhixuening can treat gynecological metrorrhagia as well as other bleeding.
Shengxuening mainly treats anemia. Xuening and Weixuening are used to treat thrombocytopenia.
Xinxuening does not stop bleeding but activates blood circulation to improve heart and brain blood supply.
Anyway, it’s quite complicated. Have you figured it out?
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