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Invaluable Upright Qi Powder

太平惠民和劑局方湯劑
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Source
太平惠民和劑局方
Composition
Magnolia bark (peeled, prepared with ginger juice), Agastache (twigs and soil removed), Licorice, Pinellia (boiled), Atractylodes (Cangzhu) (soaked in rice water), Tangerine peel (white removed), each 10 g
Preparation
Chop the above medicines into a coarse powder. Each dose 9 g, use 220 mL water, add 3 slices fresh ginger and 2 jujubes, decoct to 180 mL, remove dregs, and take slightly warm on an empty stomach.
Form
湯劑
Function
Strengthen the stomach, dispel wind, stop vomiting, regulate intestinal motility, antibacterial, promote sweating.
Traditional indications
Treats externally contracted cold damage in the four seasons, epidemic pestilence, mountain mist and miasmic qi, alternating cold and heat, cholera with vomiting and diarrhea, dysentery with red and white. Or when going on a long journey and not acclimating to water and soil, with vomiting and diarrhea, all are treated. Acute gastroenteritis, water poisoning, cholera with vomiting and diarrhea, gastrointestinal-type common cold.
Modifications
Vomiting of phlegm-fluid: add Poria and Platycodon root. -- Cholera with diarrhea: add Coptis and Scutellaria. -- Common cold due to wind-cold: add Saposhnikovia and scallion white. -- Vomiting and diarrhea: combine with Huanglian Tang (Coptis Decoction). -- Miasmic infection: combine with Huoxiang Zhengqi San.
Cautions
During medication, avoid raw and cold foods, greasy foods, and toxic substances.