bubble_chart Efficacy

Regulating qi and relieving depression.

bubble_chart Indications

The treatment of qi, blood, phlegm, fire, dampness, and food stagnation syndromes. Symptoms include chest and diaphragm stuffiness, epigastric distension and fullness, acid regurgitation, vomiting, and indigestion.

bubble_chart Formula Principles

This formula is a remedy for governing the six stagnations and is a representative formula for regulating qi and relieving depression. The six stagnations as a disease are mainly caused by the dysfunction of spleen and stomach qi, leading to abnormal ascending and descending, resulting in the mutual stagnation of dampness, food, phlegm, fire, qi, and blood. Common symptoms include chest and abdominal stuffiness, belching, acid swallow, and indigestion. In the formula, Cyperus regulates qi and relieves depression, treating qi depression with chest and abdominal distension and fullness; Sichuan Lovage Rhizome invigorates blood and removes stagnation, treating blood stagnation with stabbing pain; Atractylodes Rhizome dries dampness and strengthens the spleen, treating damp stagnation with chest stuffiness and excessive phlegm; Gardenia clears heat and purges fire, treating fire stagnation with epigastric upset and acid swallow; Medicated Leaven promotes digestion to harmonize the middle, treating food stagnation with poor appetite. Phlegm stagnation is often caused by the stagnation of qi, fire, dampness, and food. When qi flows smoothly, dampness is removed, and fire is cleared, phlegm stagnation will also be resolved, hence no additional phlegm-resolving medicine is used. Although this formula governs the six stagnations, it actually focuses on the function of regulating and harmonizing the qi movement of the liver and spleen. When qi movement is smooth, qi flows and blood circulates, and the stagnation of phlegm, fire, dampness, and food will naturally resolve. However, this is only a general principle, and in clinical application, it is necessary to flexibly modify the formula according to the predominance of the six stagnations to improve efficacy.

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1. Chest and diaphragm stuffiness and oppression.
2. Bitter taste in mouth and acid regurgitation.
3. Indigestion.

bubble_chart Formula Modification

1. Qi depression is more severe: add Aucklandia Root and Submature Bitter Orange.
2. Blood stagnation is more severe: add Peach Kernel and Carthamus.
3. Fire stagnation is more severe: add Skullcap Root and Coptis Rhizome.
4. Damp stagnation is more severe: add Alisma and Poria.
5. Food stagnation is more severe: add Germinated Barley and hawthorn fruit.
6. Phlegm stagnation is more severe: add Dried Tangerine Peel, Pineilia, Trichosanthis Fruit, and 膽星.
7. With cold pathogen: add Dried Ginger and Evodia Fruit.
8. Menstrual pain: add Curcuma Root, Corydalis Tuber, and finger citron.
9. Acid swallow vomiting: add Pineilia and Poria.

bubble_chart Cautions and Contraindications

This formula is intended to treat various types of stagnation that are classified as excess syndromes/patterns. If the stagnation is due to a deficiency syndrome/pattern, it should not be used alone.

bubble_chart Modern Application

This prescription regulates gastrointestinal function, promotes bile secretion, inhibits bacteria, and reduces inflammation. It is used for chronic gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcers, chronic hepatitis, cholecystitis, cholelithiasis, intercostal neuralgia, neurasthenia, menopausal syndrome, vomiting of pregnancy, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, and indigestion.