Medicated
Leaven (shen qu)
Massa
Fermentata Medicinalis
Properties:
The drug is pungent and sweet in flavour, and warm
in nature. It acts on the spleen and stomach channels.
Being pungent for dispersion and promoting Qi circulation,
sweet and warm for regulating the stomach, the drug can
relieve retention, promote Qi circulation, strengthen the
spleen and normalize stomach function. It is indicated for
food retention and poor appetite.
Effects:
Relieving food retention and regulating the stomach.
Indications:
The drug is often
used in combination with hawthorn fruit, germinated
barley, areca seed and other herbs for relieving food
stagnation, to treat food retention, indigestion, poor
appetite, and distention and fullness in the stomach and
abdome; and with dangshen, white atractylodes rhizome,
Chinese yam, chicken's gizzard-skin and other drugs for
strengthening the spleen and inducing appetite, to treat
weakness of the spleen and stomach, anorexia and loose
stool.
In addition,
whenever it is difficult for patients to digest and absorb
mineral drugs contained in pills, the charred pill of
leaven is often used to help digestion and sbsorption of
mineral drugs.
Dosage and
Administration: 6-12g.
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