1). The name of a symptom giving with signs such as emaciation, anemia, and amenorrhea; 2). Symptoms produced by blood deficiency due to excessive bleeding.

1. The Yellow Emperor says, "There is a disorder causing a full feeling in the chest and sides with reduced appetite and bad breath in its early stages.
2. Then excessive saliva, cold limbs, dizziness, and bloody stool and urine develops. I'd like to know its name and the method for curing it."
3. "That's xueku (or blood depletion)." Qi Bo answers. "It results from massive haemorthage in patient's early years."
4. "Sexual activities when drunk exhausts vital qi and injures the liver, causing insufficient menstrual flow or even amenorrhea." Yes, it must be so.
5. Here's the prescription: small piUs with the size of red beans is made by cuttlebone, 4 fen (1 fen = 1/2 gram), madder, 1 fen, together with sparrow eggs.
6. Before each meal, wash down five pills with abalone juice, which functions to dredge the intestines and tonify the liver. It works well.

Note: Salty, mild and easy to take, cuttlebone is speciaUy useful in treating female disharmonies like whites with reddish discharge, blood depletion and amenorrhea.Madder is endowed with a sweet and cold nature, and can stop profuse uterine bleeding as well as regulate the blood and dredge female menstrual flow. Sparrow egg has a sweet and mild flavor and can invigorate the vital qi and the blood.

It performs quite well in healing symptoms such as male impotence, female discharge disorder, and difficult urination, abalone, mild and pungent, is good at regulating blood flow and restoring yin qi. It also works well on amenorrhea. This prescription nourishes the vital qi and blood, strengthens the lungs, liver and kidney, invigorates the blood and menstrual flow, and hence acts ideally on symptoms due to depleted blood and qi deficiency.
More information, please read Acupuncture Single Points for cervicitis.