Atractylodes 4g, Magnolia Bark (ginger-fried) 4g, Tangerine Peel (white part removed) 4g, Licorice 4g, Agastache 2.5g, Amomum 2.5g, Bitter Orange 2.5g, Aucklandia 1.5g, Cyperus 4.5g, Lindera 4.5g.

bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage

Decocted in water, take while hot.

bubble_chart Indications

Cold stagnation in the middle and lower burners, qi counterflow, abdominal pain, or vomiting and diarrhea; or neither vomiting nor diarrhea, but severe dry cholera and other critical conditions.

bubble_chart Formula Modification

If there is food stagnation, add 4.5 grams each of hawthorn fruit, germinated barley, and medicated leaven; if there is pain and vomiting, add 4.5 grams of pinellia; if there is severe cold and a preference for heat, add evodia fruit and cassia bark; if there is qi stagnation and poor circulation, add white mustard seed, green tangerine peel, and areca seed; if there is severe abdominal pain, add fennel; if there is also hernia, add 6-9 grams of lychee seed (roasted).