This product is made from the mature seeds of the soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.), a leguminous plant, through fermentation. It is produced nationwide and used dried.

bubble_chart Properties and Meridians

Acrid, sweet and slightly bitter, cold. Act on lung and stomach meridians.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Releasing the exterior, relieving restlessness.

bubble_chart Indications

1. Used for common cold headache. This product is pungent and dispersing, light and floating, capable of dispersing exterior pathogens, and its ability to induce sweating to release the exterior is quite moderate. It can be applied to both wind-cold pattern of common cold due to wind and heat. It is used to treat external contraction of wind-heat, the initial stage of warm disease, fever and chills headache, often used together with Lonicera, Forsythia, Mentha, etc., such as Lonicera and Forsythia Powder; if it is wind-cold common cold, it is often combined with Fistular Onion Stalk, Platycodon Root, etc., such as Fistular Onion Stalk, Fermented Soybean and Platycodon Decoction.
2. Used for restlessness in the chest, insomnia due to deficiency and vexation. This product can both disperse external pathogens and dissipate pathogenic heat, so it is often used together with Gardenia, which resolves depression and discharges heat, to treat external-contraction febrile disease, pathogenic heat stagnating in the chest, heart vexation, and insomnia due to heat, such as Gardenia and Fermented Soybean Decoction, but this product only has the power to disperse and not the ability to clear heat.

bubble_chart Documentation

1. Bielu: "Main cold-damage disease headache, chills and fever, miasma and malignant toxins, dysphoria and fullness."
2. Bencao Congxin: "Induces sweating to release the flesh, regulates the middle to lower qi, treats cold-damage disease with chills and fever, headache, irritability and fullness, restlessness and insomnia."

bubble_chart Usage and Dosage

10-15 grams. This product, fermented with Mulberry Leaf and Sweet Wormwood, is commonly used to treat wind-heat common cold and restless chest symptoms. When fermented with Ephedra and Perilla Leaf, it is often used to treat wind-cold common cold and headache.

bubble_chart Modern Pharmacology

This product contains fat, protein, enzymes, etc. Fermented Soybean has a weak diaphoretic effect and aids in digestion and stomach health.