bubble_chart Efficacy

Tonifying qi and harmonizing the stomach, relieving stuffiness and stopping vomiting.

bubble_chart Indications

Cold-damage disease, apoplexy, the physician mistakenly purges, the patient has diarrhea, dozens of times a day, food is not digested, rumbling in the abdomen, epigastric stuffiness, hard and full, retching, restlessness and inability to settle; the physician sees epigastric stuffiness, thinks the illness is not fully resolved, and purges again, the stuffiness worsens. This is not due to heat accumulation, but rather to stomach deficiency, guest qi rising counterflow, thus causing hardness, Licorice Heart-Draining Decoction is the treatment.

bubble_chart Modern Application

Modern medicine believes that this formula harmonizes gastrointestinal functions, strengthens the stomach, inhibits bacteria, reduces inflammation, and enhances immune function. It is mainly used for: acute and chronic gastroenteritis, presenting with gastric stuffiness, retching, restlessness, diarrhea occurring dozens of times a day, undigested food in stool, rumbling in the abdomen, a pale tongue texture, yellow and greasy tongue coating, and a wiry and rapid pulse that is weak upon deep pressure.