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The diverse applications of the formula reflect, in part, the fact that Xiao Yao San is aimed at treating a commonly-occurring underlying syndrome that, according to traditional Chinese medical principles, contributes to numerous diseases. Hepatitis, pleurisy, chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer, anemia, functional uterine bleeding, menopausal syndrome, pelvic inflammatory disease, fibrocystic breasts, neurasthenia, optic nerve atrophy, and central retinitis. Ou Ming (14) mentions that Xiao Yao San: 'has been widely applied for various diseases of internal medicine, surgery, and gynecology.' According to Bensky and Barolet (9), the formula can be applied (with appropriate presentations) to treatment of:

For example, Shiro Hosono gives the following indications based on the traditional Chinese texts and the work of Kampo physicians in Japan (13):īlood weakness exhaustion irritating heat in the heart, palms, and soles whole body pain dizziness heaviness of the heat being easily startled, dryness of the mouth and throat night sweats poor appetite excessive sleeping blood and heat in conflict irregular menses umbilical swelling and pain malaria-like fever and chills uterine blood weakness yin weakness disharmony of wei and ying qi cough with sputum high fever emaciation. However, this formula (common name: Bupleurum and Tang-kuei Formula) has broad applications. Western practitioners often focus on the use of Xiao Yao San in treating premenstrual syndrome, the main indication given by Jake Fratkin in his book on patent medicines (12). Xiao Yao San, and one of its modifications, Jiawei Shao Yao San, are among the most commonly-used Chinese formulas today.

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What's In a Name? Xiao Yao San: Free and Easy Wanderer's Powderīy Subhuti Dharmananda, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Traditional Medicine, Portland, Oregon