Fresh Ginger Decoction to Drain the Epigastrium

傷寒論

After cold damage with sweating, following resolution, if the stomach is disharmonious, there is epigastric stuffiness and hardness, dry belching with food odor, water qi below the ribs, and rumbling in the abdomen with diarrhea, Sheng Jiang Xie Xin Tang governs it. (Shang Han Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage))

Fresh ginger 4 liang, cut; licorice 3 liang, roasted; ginseng 3 liang; dried ginger 1 liang; Huangqin 3 liang; Banxia half sheng, washed; Huanglian 1 liang; jujube 12 pieces, split. The above eight ingredients, with 1 dou of water, boil to obtain 6 sheng; remove the dregs, then boil again to obtain 3 sheng; take 1 sheng warm, three times daily. (Shang Han Za Bing Lun)

The above eight ingredients, with 1 dou of water, boil to obtain 6 sheng; remove the dregs and boil again to obtain 3 sheng; take 1 sheng warm, three times daily.

湯劑

Harmonize the stomach and resolve stuffiness, diffuse and dissipate water qi.

Cold damage with sweating, after resolution, disharmony in the stomach, epigastric stuffiness and hardness, dry belching with foul breath, water qi below the ribs, and rumbling in the abdomen with diarrhea.

Severe foul breath: Add Bohe (mint): 10.