WH Acupuncture & Herbs Centre

Zhi shi dao zhi wan(Unripened Bitter Orange Stagnation-Dispelling Pills)

【INGREDIENTS】:

Rhubarb 30g ，Unripened bitter orange 15g ， Poria 9g， Scutellaria root 9g ， Coptis root 9g， Bighead Atractylodes rhizome 9g ， Water plantain 6g

【DIRECTIONS】:Grind the above herbs into powder, then mix it with water to make into form of pills as large as Chinese parasol seed, 6 to 9 gram of this pills each time.

【EFFECTS】:Resolving food retention, clearing heat and dampness.

【INDICATIONS】: Food retention. The rawness and dampness of food brings about heat which is manifested by stuffiness and fullness of chest and epigastrium, abdominal pain with diarrhea, or constipation and scanty dark urine, yellow and greasy coating, deep forceful pulse.

【ANALYSIS OF FORMULA】： As the main herb, rhubarb is to purge food reten­tion and damp-heat, thus inducing the accumulated heat out through stool. Unrip­ened bitter orange acts as the assistant herb to lower qi for resolving accumulation and stuffiness. As the adjuvant herbs, coptis root and Scutellaria root clear away heat and dry dampness for relieving diarrhea; bighead atractylodes rhizome is to strengthen spleen for drying dampness; poria and water plantain are to excrete water and dampness for relieving diarrhea; medicated leaven is to promote diges­tion for resolving stagnation.