Having tasted all the bitterness in the world, this phrase speaks to the hardships of human life, and the word tasted also implies an excessive burden on the spleen and stomach.
Our digestive system, like a diplomat, receives different foods from the outside world every day.
What the body needs, what the heart desires, whether sweet or sour, bitter or spicy, hungry or full, it passively accepts, enduring all kinds of hardships. So, do we "exchange it for frosty white hair" or "transform it into the fragrance of spring breeze for miles"? In reality, due to a lack of understanding and relevant knowledge,Some people's spleen and stomach have long been scarred and overwhelmed.
In addition to protecting the stomach in daily life, how can those with impaired spleen and stomach recover? Today, we will explore this with the help of Chinese patent medicines:Xiangsha Hewei WanLet's talk about it.
From "food entering the stomach" to the "digestion, absorption, and utilization" of food, the spleen and stomach are the main "departments" involved in the entire process.
In traditional Chinese medicine theory, the spleen and stomach areThe foundation of the acquired constitution is the source of qi and blood production.
The energy required for life activities all comes from the transformation of qi and blood. The stomach, known as the official of granaries, acts like a warehouse manager, responsible for collecting food and performing initial processing. The spleen, a deep processing factory for food, also functions like a logistics company, sorting and distributing nutrients outward. Because it directs the distribution of sour, bitter, sweet, pungent, and salty flavors to the liver, heart, spleen, lungs, and kidneys respectively, it is said that the spleen is where the five flavors emerge.
Due to the complexity of the process, issues in the human digestive system are also prone to occur in its storage, processing, digestion, and distribution stages.
Spleen and stomach function directly affects our health.
Weak stomach, once this granary official's efficiency declines, with inadequate decomposition and obstructed downward movement, symptoms such as stomach pain, bloating, poor appetite, and even acid reflux and belching may occur; if the spleen is deficient, deep processing of food is limited, and the logistics and distribution system malfunctions, failing to properly extract the five flavors, leading to a series of issues, insufficient production of qi and blood resulting in fatigue, sallow complexion, and dizziness; abnormal water-dampness metabolism causing internal retention of dampness, excessive phlegm, thick and greasy tongue coating, and sticky stools.
The emergence of these issues indicates that our spleen and stomach have been damaged and need to be repaired to restore normal spleen and stomach function.
Today we are going to introduce this Chinese patent medicineKnown as the "all-round repair agent" for the spleen and stomach: Xiangsha Hewei WanIt not only repairs the stomach's functions of decomposing and descending, but also maintains the spleen's functions of generating qi and blood and transporting water-dampness, and even provides comprehensive maintenance for the entire digestive system.
Composition:Costus Root, Amomum Fruit, Dried Tangerine Peel, Magnolia Bark (prepared with ginger), Cyperus Tuber (prepared with vinegar), Bitter Orange (stir-fried with bran), Patchouli, Hawthorn Fruit, Medicated Leaven (stir-fried with bran), Germinated Barley (stir-fried), Radish Seed (stir-fried), Atractylodes Rhizome, Largehead Atractylodes Rhizome (stir-fried with bran), Poria, Pinellia Tuber (stir-fried with bran), Licorice Root, Pilose Asiabell Root
Fang Jie
01. Repairing stomach digestion and descending issues
Stir-fried Hawthorn, Stir-fried Malt, Stir-fried Medicated Leaven (Jiao San Xian): The stomach's decomposition function and descending function influence each other. Inadequate decomposition leads to incomplete descending, and conversely, poor descending can cause excessive burden on decomposition.
Jiaosanxian has the effect of promoting digestion, resolving stagnation, harmonizing the middle, and stimulating appetite.
Hawthorn is good for digesting greasy meat, malt is good for digesting rice and flour food stagnation, and medicated leaven is good for digesting stale food and alcohol stagnation.
The combination of these three medicines can resolve all food stagnation, stimulate appetite and reduce accumulation, promoting digestion and transformation. It restores the stomach's functions of decomposition and downward movement.
Fructus Aurantii Immaturus, Fructus Aurantii, Areca Catechu, Rhizoma Cyperi (vinegar-fried), Semen Raphani: These herbs break qi stagnation, eliminate accumulation, and guide stagnation downward. The stomach's function of descending turbidity relies entirely on the smooth downward movement of stomach qi. All four herbs have the effects of promoting qi flow and breaking qi stagnation. Fructus Aurantii Immaturus, Fructus Aurantii, and Rhizoma Cyperi (vinegar-fried) strongly break stagnant and obstructed qi, while Areca Catechu and Semen Raphani further push the opened qi mechanism downward into the intestines, guiding stagnation downward to restore the stomach's descending function and resolve issues such as abdominal distension, acid reflux, and belching.
02. Maintaining the Spleen's Function in Qi and Blood Production and Transformation, and Regulating Water and Dampness Issues
Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria cocos, and Glycyrrhiza uralensis constitute the "Four Gentlemen Decoction," renowned as the premier formula for replenishing qi. Wang Jinsan, in his "Annotations on Ancient Formulas from the Crimson Snow Garden," stated: "The decoction is named 'Gentlemen' because its efficacy lies in fortifying the spleen and harmonizing the stomach, enabling them to receive the essence of water and grains and distribute it to the four organs, much like how a gentleman embodies the virtue of nurturing others. It warms and tonifies without causing dryness or heat, and it replenishes without being overly aggressive, aligning with the ancient concept of 'the gentleman achieving harmony and balance.' Hence, it is named the 'Four Gentlemen Decoction.'"
Tonifying Qi and strengthening the spleen, addressing symptoms such as pale complexion, dizziness, blurred vision, weakness in the limbs, and fullness in the chest and abdomen caused by insufficient production of spleen Qi and blood.
Moreover, the addition of tonifying ingredients in the formula serves to protect the spleen and stomach's vital qi and prevent excessive purgation amidst a large quantity of qi-moving and digestion-promoting drugs. This tonification helps restore the spleen's function of generating qi and blood.
Atractylodes, Magnolia Bark, and Tangerine Peel: the three main herbs in "Pingwei San" restore the spleen's ascending and stomach's descending functions by promoting qi flow, harmonizing the stomach, drying dampness, and activating the spleen. They alleviate symptoms such as abdominal distension, general heaviness, and sticky stools caused by dampness obstructing the spleen, addressing the spleen's inability to transform and transport water-dampness.
Costus Root, Amomum Fruit, Ginger: Regulate Qi and Harmonize the Middle, Harmonize the Stomach and Awaken the Spleen, Warm the Middle and Stop Vomiting, acting as an "additive" to assist the above herbs in restoring the function of the spleen and stomach.
The entire formula works in combination to restore the original functions of the spleen and stomach by regulating the two organs, the spleen and stomach, and addressing four aspects: digestion, descending function, production of qi and blood, and transportation of water and dampness.
Conclusion
Xiangsha Hewei Pills have the effects of lowering qi, promoting digestion, tonifying, drying dampness, resolving phlegm, and removing stagnation. They comprehensively and thoroughly "repair" the entire digestive system of the spleen and stomach, strongly restoring the stomach's functions of "rotting and ripening" and "descending and promoting," and enhancing the spleen's roles in "generating qi and blood" and "transporting and transforming water and dampness."
Restore the "factory settings" of the spleen and stomach, good spleen and stomach, the body is really good.
