Formulas for food stagnation
Bao he wan
Preserve Harmony Pill
- Chinese name
- 保和丸
- Group
- Formulas for food stagnation
- English name
- Citrus and Crataegus Formula
- Basic formula
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Aids digestion, resolves food stagnation and harmonizes the stomach.
Indications
After too much fatty, heavy or meat-rich food or alcohol, and for mild food poisoning: a distended abdomen with a full feeling in stomach and chest, occasional pain, belching, heartburn, nausea and vomiting, aversion to food, and diarrhoea or constipation.
Ingredients
| Ingredients | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hawthorn berry (shan zha) | 9–15 g |
| Shen qu (medicated leaven) | 9–12 g |
| Radish seed (lai fu zi) | 6–9 g |
| Tangerine peel (chen pi) | 6–9 g |
| Ban xia, prepared (pinellia) | 9–12 g |
| Fu ling (poria) | 9–12 g |
| Lian qiao (forsythia) | 3–6 g |
- Tongue
- yellow, greasy coating
- Pulse
- slippery
Variations
- For a very distended abdomen: add immature bitter orange and hou po.
- For constipation: add rhubarb and areca nut.