[Properties] This product is irregular small blocks or coarse particles, with a grayish white to slightly yellowish surface, rough, brittle and easily broken. It has a stale smell and a slightly bitter taste.
【Main effects】Strengthen the spleen and stomach, help digestion and regulate the stomach.
[Applicable Indications] It is used for weak spleen and stomach, food stagnation, chest and abdominal distension, and food accumulation in children.
【Main ingredients】Polygonum hydropiper, Artemisia annua, Xanthium sibiricum, Adzuki bean, Bitter almond, Wheat bran, Flour.
[Usage and Dosage] 6-12g each time, decocted in water or crushed and added to tea, pills, powders and other preparations.
【Medical records】
"Medicine Properties": "Transform water and food stagnation, resolve stagnation, strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach."
Zhang Yuansu: "Nourishes the stomach qi. Treats with white thorn."
"Tangye Bencao": "It can treat wind in the internal organs, regulate the middle and lower qi, and stimulate the appetite to eliminate food stagnation. It can treat cholera, heart and diaphragm qi, phlegm, relieve restlessness, break up knots, and replenish deficiency, remove cold air, remove blockage in the stomach and intestines, and indigestion. It can treat children's abdomen as big as a plate, fullness in the chest, restless fetal movement, or back pain and heartache, and continuous bleeding."
"Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can help digestion and relieve gas, eliminate phlegm, cholera, diarrhea, dysentery and distension. For patients with sprains and back pain, it is effective to take it warm with quenched wine. For women who want to stop breastfeeding after childbirth, fry and grind it and take it with wine, two coins, twice a day."
"Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can treat heatstroke, diet, fatigue, malaria, edema, swell and accumulation, phlegm and cough, vomiting and nausea, cholera, blood stasis, heartache, epigastric pain, hypochondria, paralysis, dizziness, heaviness, inability to eat, and jaundice."
"New Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can eliminate scrofula, carbuncle and tumor."
【Predecessors release medicine】
"Compendium of Materia Medica": "According to Ni Weide (Qiwei Ji), Shenqu can treat eye diseases. When used raw, it can stimulate the vitality of the eye, and when used hot, it can restrain the violent qi."
"Compendium of Materia Medica" states: "The ancients used Qu, which is the Qu used to make wine. It has a sweet and warm flavor and is good for digestion. It can relieve stagnant qi in the spleen and stomach and dispel wind and cold in the internal organs. Shenqu was specially created by later generations for medicinal purposes and is twice as effective as wine koji."
"Compendium of Materia Medica": "Shenqu, sweet and mild in nature, is used as medicine when fried until yellow. It is good at helping the middle-jiao earth organs, strengthening the spleen and warming the stomach, digesting food and lowering qi, removing stagnation and regulating the middle, removing phlegm accumulation, breaking up tumors, transporting water and grain, and eliminating cholera bloating and vomiting. Its qi is rotten, so it can remove dampness and heat, and its nature is astringent, so it can stop diarrhea. It can treat women's fetal movement due to stagnation and children's abdominal hardness due to accumulation."
"Pharmaceutical Chemistry": "Shenqu tastes sweet, and when fried, it is fragrant. The fragrance can wake up the spleen, and the sweetness can soothe the stomach. It can calm the stomach qi and regulate the middle jiao. It is used to treat spleen deficiency, cholera vomiting, cold and damp diarrhea, women's fetal movement, and continuous bleeding. If it is used raw, it can eliminate rice and grain food accumulation, phlegm stagnation, chest fullness, malaria, and children's abdominal hardness. It can all be effective."
"Ben Jing Feng Yuan" says: "Shen Qu is good at digesting the accumulation of grains, wheat and wine. It is good if it is aged for a long time. But it can digest the accumulation. If there is no accumulation, it will deplete the vitality of the person if taken for a long time."
"Compendium of Materia Medica" states: "Shenqu, pungent, sweet and warm in nature, is made from six ingredients: white flour, almond, red bean, Artemisia annua, Xanthium sibiricum and Polygonum multiflorum, which are steamed into cakes. The six ingredients are one, so it can disperse qi and regulate the middle, warm the stomach and resolve phlegm, expel water and eliminate stagnation, and nourish the spleen in children. Doctors often use it for treatment, because it is pungent but not too dispersing, sweet but not too congested, and warm but not dry. However, it must be combined with other medicines to nourish the spleen, and it is better to use them together."
"New Compendium of Materia Medica": Shenqu tastes sweet, has a flat flavor, and is non-toxic. It enters the spleen and stomach meridians. It lowers qi and regulates the middle. It stops diarrhea, stimulates appetite, transforms water and grain, eliminates old food, breaks up knots, removes accumulated phlegm, treats women with restless fetuses, and treats chest and abdominal fullness in children. It works without harm, and can be used together with medicines that strengthen the spleen and stomach, regardless of the amount. However, the method of making Shenqu in the world is not wonderful. My teacher taught me the method: Choose June 6th, use three catties of white flour, mash the Cang Gancao to extract one cup of juice, mix it with well water, and use ten catties of mulberry leaves, mash them, drain the juice with cloth, and then use one liter of red beans to grind them into powder, mix them with flour, mix them with the previous two juices into cakes, cover them with wild Polygonum for fourteen days, take them out and wrap them with paper, and hang them in a windy place to dry in the sh
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