Source: Essentials from the Golden Cabinet (c. 220)

Indication: Uterine Stasis, often with pregnancy

Symptoms: Mild, persistent uterine bleeding of purple or dark blood during pregnancy accompanied by abdominal pain that increases with pressure. Also, immobile masses in the lower abdomen with pain and tenderness, abdominal spasms and tension, amenorrhea with abdominal distention and pain, dysmenorrhea and retention of the lochia.

Tongue: dark, purple spots; Pulse: submerged, choppy