[Variety Source]
Medicated leaven (herbal decoction pieces)
This product is a processed product made by mixing flour and other drugs and then fermentation. Produced all over the country. The preparation method is to mix flour or bran with Bitter Apricot Seed mud, Rice Bean powder, fresh Sweet Wormwood, fresh cocklebur, and fresh spicy natural juice, mix well, make the dryness and wetness suitable, make it into small pieces, and add In the basket, add hemp leaves or mulberry leaves, keep fermentation for a week, take it out when yellow mycelium grows, cut it into small pieces and dry it in the sun. Use raw or fried.
Medicated Leaven There is another variety called Jianqu, also known as Quanzhou Medicated Leaven, Fanzhiqu, and Laofanzhi Medicated Leaven. It is specially formulated through fermentation of dozens of medicines such as wheat flour, bran, Perilla Leaf, Jingfen, Saposhnikovia Root, Magnolia Bark, White Atractylodes Rhizome, Aucklandia Root, Immature Orange Fruit, green tangerine peel, etc. It is mainly produced in Quanzhou, Fujian. Bitter and slightly warm in nature and flavor. The effect of digestion resolving accumulation is similar to that of Medicated Leaven, and it can move qi and resolving dampness, strengthen the spleen and harmonize the body, and can also be used to treat summerheat dampness diarrhea and vomiting. The usage and dosage are the same as Medicated Leaven.
[Property]
sweet and acrid, warm. act on spleen and stomach channels.
[Efficacy]
promoting digestion to harmonize the middle.
[Indications]
Used for syndrome/pattern of food retention due to dyspepsia. This product has the effect of digesting food, strengthening the stomach, and stopping diarrhea. It is commonly used to treat abdominal distension and fullness, anorexia, and diarrhea. It can be used with hawthorn fruit, Germinated Barley, and Aucklandia Root. is used equally. This product also has the function of releasing exterior, so it is especially suitable for those with external contraction and food stagnation. In addition, if the pill contains gold, stone, or shellfish, you can use this flour and water paste pill to aid digestion.
[Documentation]
- Yaoxing Lun: "Huashuigu retained food, key retention of food, strengthens the spleen and warms the stomach."
- Bencao Gangmu: "Digestion lowering qi , eliminate phlegm, cholera, dysentery, and distension."
[Usage and Dosage]
Decoct and take, 6~15g.
[Modern Pharmacology]
This product contains yeast, enzymes, vitamin B complex, ergot sterols, volatile oils, glycosides, etc. This product can promote digestion and increase appetite.