WH Acupuncture & Herbs Centre

[SOURCE]: Standards of Diagnosis and Treatment

[INGREDIENTS:] Netmeg 60g,  Psoralea fruit 120g,  Schisandra fruit 60g,  Evodia fruit( saturated and fried) 30g   

[DIRECTIONS]: Add 240 grams of fresh ginger and 100 pieces of Chinese date to the above-mentioned herbs, grind them into power and make into pills for oral administration. Take 9 to 12 grams each time before meal or before going to bed with warm boiled water. Or, decoct all the above herbs in water for oral adminis­tration with the dosage adjusted proportionally. 

[EFFECTS]: Warming and tonifying the spleen and kidney, consolidating the intestines to control diarrhea.

[INDICATIONS] ： Chronic diarrhea due to deficiency cold of the spleen and kid­ney or morning-diarrhea with anorexia, loose stools of undigested food, or abdomi­nal pain, lumbago, cold limbs, listlessness, pale tongue with white coating, and deep, slow and feeble pulse.

[ANALYSIS OF FORMULA]: It is common formula for morning-diarrhea. Net­meg with pungent flavor and warm property is a principal herb with the effects on warming the kidney and invigorating the spleen. Evodia fruit warms the middle to dispel cold, regulates qi to alleviate pain; Psoralea fruit warms the kidney and spleen. Both are assistant herbs. Schisandra fruit is sour in flavor and warm in property. It has the effects on astringing the essence and benefiting qi. Fresh gin­ger and Chinese dates replenish the spleen and stomach, dispel the cold to harmo­nize the stomach. They are all used as dispatcher herbs.