WH Acupuncture & Herbs Centre

 【组成】  香附（6g）  川芎（6g）  苍术（6g）  神曲（6g）  栀子（6g）

[DIRECTIONS]: Grind all the ingredients into fine powder and then make pills with water. The pills are to be taken 6〜9 grams each time with warm boiled wa­ter, twice a day. It can also be decocted in water for oral administration with the dosage reduced proportionally.

[EFFECTS]: Activating qi to relieve stagnation.

[INDICATIONS]: Syndromes of stagnation of qi, blood, phlegm, fire, dampness and food, manifested by stuffy chest, distention and pain in the abdomen, eructa­tion with fetid odour and acid regurgitation, nausea and vomiting, and indigestion.

[ANALYSIS OF FORMULA]: This is a general formula for syndrome of six kinds of stagnations of qi, blood, phlegm, fire, dampness and food. Nutgrass flat- sedge rhizome in the formula is the principal herb to activate qi and relieve stagna­tion, and to soothe the liver and alleviate pain. Chuanxiong rhizome promotes the circulation of qi and blood to treat blood stagnation. Atractylodes rhizome dries dampness and strengthens the spleen to treat damp stagnation. When dampness is eliminated phlegm is easy to be resolved. So it also has the effect of relieving phlegm stagnation. Capejasmine fruit clears heat and purges fire to treat fire stag­nation. Medicated leaven can treat food stagnation by removing food retention and harmonizing the stomach. All the above-mentioned herbs are used as assistant herbs.

The major effects of this formula are to activate qi and relieve stagnation. In the clinical practice, the principal herb can be changed according to conditon of ill­ness, and the ingredients of the formula should be adjusted correspondingly.

Functional gastrointestinal disorders, gastroduodenal ulcer, chronic gastritis, infectious hepatitis, cholecystitis, cholelithiasis, intercostal neuralgia, dysmenor­rhea etc. manifested as symptoms of six kinds of stagnations can be treated by the formula.