A herb that is a potent remedy for abdominal gas and fullness, warming the stomach and intestines, lowering gas and phlegm, and strengthening gastrointestinal dynamics

Today, I would like to tell you about the Chinese herbal medicine Hou Pao.

There is a patient who usually does not pay attention to his diet and always eats too much. The spleen is injured.

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine says that satiety hurts the spleen. The spleen is the source of phlegm, spleen, a wound, the transformation of food essence will be less, and into phlegm will increase. That's why many people get big bellies when they are chronically overfed. You can't control the mouth, you can't control the obesity big belly.

This patient after obesity, feel breathing gas coarse, a cold, always chest tightness and shortness of breath for wheezing, coughing phlegm, phlegm color is white, sweating fear of wind and cold, this is what symptoms. Obviously the heart Yang Qi is not enough, and the lung Qi does not descend, the lung phlegm drink does not transform. So the treatment is very simple: strengthen the heart and purge the lung of phlegm and turbidity. What soup prescription to use?

In Zhang Zhongjing's Treatise on Typhoid Fever, it is said that for an attack in a wheezing family, Gui Zhi Tang with Hou Pu and Apricot is good. Gui Zhi Tang can warm up Yang Qi, detoxify the muscles and the Ying and Wei, and Hou Pu and Xing Zi can quickly lower the Yang Qi in the chest and lungs, so that the turbid Yin does not reside in the chest cavity and the breathing is immediately smooth.

Chinese medicine refers to the chest as the sky and the abdomen as the earth, the sky should be clear and the earth should be turbid. If, on the contrary, phlegm does not return to the six internal organs, but to the five organs of the chest and lungs, people will be uncomfortable. We use Gui Zhi Tang to strengthen the power of the heart and lungs and the five viscera, and add apricot seeds through Hou Pu to sweep the phlegm from the chest and lungs to the six viscera. The patient took only seven doses of the medicine and his cough and asthma were greatly reduced. From this, we can see that Hou Pu is good at eliminating phlegm and lowering Qi.

This is the reason why it is said in the "Drug Nature Fugue" that Hou Pu is also effective in eliminating phlegm, it is by regulating the qi, and when the qi is lowered, the phlegm is lowered.

This is the reason why Hou Pu is good at eliminating phlegm.

There is a patient, always disturbed abdominal distension, nearly two years, sleep is not good, eat is not good, when serious irritability, anxiety, even have to use a stick to beat their chest and abdomen, only slightly feel comfortable. He called it looking for a beating, and owes a beating.

Otherwise, he always felt that the chest and abdomen full, such as things blocked, sleep poorly, a little full on the vomit evil, the next meal will not be able to eat, usually more phlegm, vomiting, some impatient temperament.

Think about it, if you let a mouthful of phlegm blocked in the chest and abdomen every day, eating and sleeping uneasy, can not be impatient?

What to do?

In the treatise on typhoid, it is said that after the typhoid fever, the heart is troubled, the abdomen is full, the sleep is restless, the gardenia seeds thick park soup is the main. The soup formula composed of three herbs, namely gardenia, thick park and hedgehog, can cure such a stubborn disease?

Chinese medicine think chest full with hedgehog, abdominal full with thick park, and the three jiao heat is full leading to heart annoyance, must use gardenia, so the three herbs from chest to abdomen to lower the gas and clear the heat.

The patient ate seven doses of medicine, the heart and abdomen annoying full feeling disappeared most of the time, the heart and chest opened up, the mood turned to peace, can eat well during the day, can sleep well at night. The family members were all amazed. In the past two years, I have been looking for a doctor, and western doctors have diagnosed it as neurosis, and I have taken a lot of sedative and tranquilizing drugs, but I have not seen any improvement. The actual fact that these few herbs have turned the situation around is strange.

The fact that you are so irritable that you have to beat yourself with a stick on your chest and abdomen, you can see how much phlegm is blocked inside. The patient's body and mind are at ease and the disease is gone as soon as the patient releases a few farts. It can be seen that these strange diseases more phlegm and more gas blockage, by lowering Qi and eliminating phlegm, strange diseases are not as difficult to treat as imagined.

It strengthens the gastrointestinal dynamics by warming the stomach and intestines and lowering the phlegm, so that the patient can easily fart and the fullness will be removed soon.

A patient, coughing and asthma after catching a cold and using sweat medicine, itself is a bit weak, sweat immediately feel bloated in the abdomen, appetite loss, no appetite, what is going on?

Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid" says, after sweating, abdominal distension and fullness, Houpu, ginger, half summer, licorice and ginseng soup is the main. The five herbs, Hou Pu, ginger, half summer, licorice, ginseng, just three doses down, chest fullness, abdominal distension disappeared, appetite open, diet regulation. Since the patient is full, why do we need to add licorice and ginseng? It is not said that the sweet is full in the middle, the tonic is easy to stagnate?

This statement is from the perspective of the drug itself. If we look at it from the perspective of compounding, it is a different story. It's one thing to work alone, and another to work with a team of people. A team of people have a team of rules, in addition to doing a good job, but also to try to coordinate interpersonal relationships.

And the five flavors, a team, each in its own way, there are ginseng, licorice three tonic, thick park, ginger, half summer seven elimination, why three tonic? Because after sweating, the spleen is weak, the spleen is the main abdomen, the spleen is deficient, the qi can not turn over, it is easy to bloat, ginseng, licorice to benefit the spleen deficiency, can strengthen the abdominal intestinal power, this is like giving horses to eat grass.

At the same time, why do we need seven elimination? The three herbs descend from the top to the bottom, and go to the Chen's pad, so that the turbid yin will not become bloated. These three medicines are like three whips for horses, and the speed of qi running downward is accelerated.

So when we look at the ginseng and ginger soup, we can see that it treats abdominal distension in the middle of deficiency, three parts of deficiency and seven parts of reality.

The ginseng and licorice are coordinated by thick park, ginger and half-xia, so not only will it not be full, but also the gastrointestinal power will be strengthened, and after farting, the bloating will be eliminated and people will be refreshed, not short of breath.

It is good at drying dampness and lowering qi, removing flatulence and eliminating lumpiness. Therefore, it can be used for all vomiting and bloating, plum kernel gas, phlegm and coughing and asthma caused by dampness blocking the middle jiao and unfavorable qi flow.