bubble_chart Efficacy

Warming the organs to tonify deficiency, purging heat to calm ascaris.

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Gallbladder ascariasis is a condition caused by stomach heat and intestinal cold, leading to restlessness of ascarids, and in severe cases, the disruption of the harmonious flow of yin-yang qi. The treatment should focus on warming the viscera and quieting the ascarids, tonifying deficiency, and clearing upper heat. Ascarids are calmed by sourness, subdued by pungency, and expelled by bitterness. Therefore, the formula uses Smoked Plum, which is sour in taste, as the sovereign medicinal to quiet ascarids and relieve pain; Asarum and Pricklyash Peel, which are pungent and warm, to expel ascarids and warm the viscera; Dried Ginger, Cinnamon Twig, and Aconite Lateral Root to warm the viscera and dispel cold; Ginseng and Chinese Angelica to tonify and replenish qi and blood; Coptis Rhizome and Phelloendron Bark, which are bitter and cold, to expel ascarids and clear stomach heat, serving as minister medicinals. The cold nature of Phelloendron Bark and Coptis Rhizome also prevents the warm and drying properties of the other medicinals from damaging yin, acting as assistant medicinals; honey is used to form pills and harmonize the medicinals, serving as the guiding medicinal. The combination of these medicinals has the effect of warming the viscera and quieting ascarids, addressing both cold and heat, and balancing pathogenic and healthy qi. Therefore, it can also treat chronic diarrhea and prolonged dysentery caused by the complexity of cold and heat and deficiency of healthy qi.

Modern medicine believes that this formula promotes bile secretion, relaxes the sphincter of Oddi, has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects, regulates gastrointestinal motility, and inhibits the activity of roundworms. It is mainly used for: biliary ascariasis, roundworm-induced abdominal pain, chronic gastroenteritis, chronic enteritis, chronic colitis, chronic dysentery, gastric and duodenal bulb ulcers, presenting with symptoms such as irritability, vomiting, intermittent abdominal pain, and a wiry pulse.