Nardostachys (firm, indirect heat), Clove (remove buds, indirect heat), Green Tangerine Peel (four-petaled, remove pulp), Red Tangerine Peel (soaked in water, white part removed), Coptis (large), each 7.5 gm; Burreed Tuber (slowly simmered), Zedoary (slowly simmered), each 15 gm; Pinellia Ferment (select clean white Pinellia, grind into powder, mix with fresh ginger juice to form cakes, dry in the sun) 7.5 gm.

bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage

Dry the above 8 ingredients, grind them into a fine powder, remove the shells from the croton seeds, soak them in decoction, and grind them one by one. Remove the core and membrane, mix with 24 grams of flour, and add water to form a paste. Shape into pills the size of millet grains. Take 5–7 pills per dose (10 pills for stronger individuals) at dawn before meals, taken with tangerine peel decoction. For regular use to relieve stagnation without purging, swallow the saliva. For food stagnation and fullness, administer with bitter orange soup. For accumulated substances, take with cold juice. For vomiting due to food, swallowing saliva will stop it. For persistent diarrhea due to food or cholera-like vomiting, take with cold water. For dysentery with bloody stools, take with cold licorice soup; for dysentery with white stools, take with cold dried ginger soup; for palpitations, take with acorus soup; for mixed bloody and white dysentery, take with cold licorice and dried ginger soup; for various pains due to qi stagnation, take with fresh ginger and tangerine peel soup; for lower abdominal pain, take with fennel and wine; for women's blood and qi disorders, take with angelica soup. To promote purging, take with hot ginger soup and increase the number of pills. If no relief is achieved, take another dose. If diarrhea is excessive, drink a mouthful of cold water to stop it. Adjust the dosage for children based on age. For treating malnutrition, take regularly with rice soup at any time. This medicine acts when warm and stops when cold.

Qi transformation accumulation.

bubble_chart Indications

Food accumulation leads to qi stagnation, causing heart and abdominal distension, fullness, and pain.

bubble_chart Cautions and Contraindications

Pregnant women should not take it.