Blood Stasis can have several different meanings. Acute Trauma with Bruising involves Blood stasis. But Blood stasis is also involved in many chronic diseases. Most chronic inflammatory conditions involve Blood stasis, as is Cirrhosis, Fibrosis and Tumors. Likewise Chest pain and Angina Pectoris is also associated with Blood Stasis. Many gynecological diseases are related to Blood stasis including Dysmenorrhea, Endoemtriosis and Fibroids and usually there will be accompanying dark blood or blood clots in the menstrual blood.
Symptoms of Blood stasis include sharp, stabbing, fixed pain, dull complexion, purplish color of the nails, lips and tongue, a choppy pulse. Females will have dark or clotted menstrual Blood. Chronic pain following Trauma indicates unresolved Blood stasis.
Severe Blood Stasis Chronic Blood stasis, maybe fibrosis or cirrhosis, varices etc. with emaciation. Dull complexion, purple tongue and lips, choppy and weak pulse Di Dang Tang Da Huang Zhe Chong Wan
Blood Stasis with Deficiency Fatigue, Weakness of the limbs, typically a chronic condition, or seen in the elderly. Purplish lips, nails bed and tongue with a choppy pulse Bu Yang Huan Wu Tang
According to Location
Heart Blood Stasis Chest pain, sweating, weakness, breathless, weak or choppy or intermittent pulse Dan Shen Yin
