This product is made from the mature seeds of the leguminous plant soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) through steaming and fermentation. It is produced all over the country and is dried and used raw.

[Property]

acrid, sweet and slightly bitter, cold. act on lung and stomach channels.

[Efficacy]

Releasing exterior, eliminating trouble.

[Indications]

1. For common cold headache. This product is pungent and light, can evacuate exterior pathogens, and has a very stable effect on inducing sweating to release exterior. It can be used regardless of wind-cold syndrome/pattern of common cold due to wind and heat. It is used to treat external contraction, wind-heat, and warm. The onset of disease, fever aversion to cold headache, often used synonymously with Lonicera, Forsythia, Mentha, such as Lonicera and Forsythia Powder; If it is wind-cold common cold, it is often used with Fistular Onion Stalk, Platycodon Root, etc., such as Fistular Onion Stalk, Fermented Soybean and Platycodon Decoction.
2. It is used for feeling upset in the chest, feeling tired and unable to sleep. This product can not only disperse external evils, but also dissipate evil heat. Therefore, it is often used together with Gardenia, which resolving depression and discharging heat, to treat external-contraction febrile disease, internal stagnation of evil heat in the chest and heart. Annoyance, restless heat, such as Gardenia and Fermented Soybean Decoction, however, this product only has the power of dispersing, but has no effect of clearing away heat.

[Documentation]

1. Bielu: "The main disease caused by cold headache, Hanre, the miasma is vicious, dysphoria is full of stuffiness."
2. Bencao Congxin I>: "Produces sweating, releasing flesh, regulating lowering qi, and treating disease caused by cold Hanre headache, irritability, boredom, and sleeplessness."

[Usage and Dosage]

10~15 grams. This product is often used to treat wind-heat, common cold, and Rebing chest depression if it is fermented with Mulberry Leaf or Sweet Wormwood. It is often used to treat wind-cold common cold headache if it is fermented with Ephedra or Perilla Leaf fermentation.

This product contains fat, protein and enzymes. Fermented Soybean has very weak sweating power and has the effect of strengthening the stomach and aiding digestion.