Effect
Warming the middle-Jiao to nourish the spleen and stomach, descending the adverse fiow

of Qi to relieve pain.

Indications
Syndrome due to weakened Yang-Qi of the middle-Jiao and excessive Yin-cold in the

interior, mafked by colic pain in the chest and epigastric region, inability to take

food due to vomiting, clear-cut and mobile and painful abdominal masses averse to

palpation due to cold within the abdomen, whitish slippery tongue coating, thready

tense pulse, even cold limbs and hidden pulse, or borborygmus; including such diseases

with the above symptoms as chronic gastritis, Peptic Ulcer, chronic pancreatitis,

chronic cholecystitis, biliary ascariasis and intestinal tuberculosis.

Ingredients
Shu Jiao (Pericarpium Zanthoxyli) 3 g,
Rhizoma Zingiberis (Ganjiang) 4.5 g,
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Cerealose (Yitang) 30 g.

Explanation
Shu Jiao: The principal drug, being pungent in flavor and hot in nature, warming the

spleen and stomach, aiding the fire of Ming Men, thus expelling cold and removing

dampness, descending Qi to relieve stagnation.

Gan Jiang: Warming the middle-Jiao to dispel cold, assisting Shu Jiao in

rehabilitating the Yang-Qi of the middle-Jiao and dispersing the Qi adversely flowing,

felieving pain and stopping vomiting.

Ren Shen and Yi Tang: Being sweet in flavor and warm in nature, warming and

invigorating the middle-Jiao to replenish the spleen and stomach.

Administration
The first 3 ingredients in the prescription were first decocted twice for the

decoction into which 30 g of Yi Tang was put, taken warm twice.