Fluid conditions and Food stagnation Flashcards
What should you eat with fluid conditions?
- Drying foods that supplement the Spleen
- Richer, nutritious foods in smaller amounts spread out over the day
- Bitter, pungent and drying ingredients e.g green tea with fried food
- Moderately pungent foods to dissolve phlegm
What should you avoid with fluid conditions?
- Eating heavily esp in evening
- Fatty and oily foods such as fatty meats, friend food etc
- Excessively sweet foods
- Dairy and wheat, bread and beer
- Overly supplementing or concentrated foods
List of food stagnation herbs:
Bian Xia / Pinellia Ternate (Rhizome)
Shan Zha / Crataegus pinnatifida (fruit)
Shen Qu
List of herbal formulas for food stagnation:
Er Chen Tang
Zhi Sou Tang
Bao He Wan
What is Er Chen Tang?
- Ban Xia
- Chen Pi
- Fu Ling
- Zhi Gan Cao
- Sheng Jiang
- Wu Mei
What are the functions of Er Chen Tang?
Dry dampness and remove phlegm, regulate Qi and harmonise the middle jiao
What are the signs and symptoms of Er Chen Tang?
- Damp-phlegm syndrome manifested by cough with profuse sputum, nausea, vomiting, fullness and suffocation sensation in the chest and diaphragm, dizziness, palpitation
- Chronic mucus congestion, phlegm nodules, dizziness, nausea and vomiting, fullness in the chest, chronic productive cough
- Tongue: white and moist or thin and greasy coating.
- Pulse slippery
What are the cautions for Er Chen Tang?
Dryness or Yin Xu with phlegm Damp
What is the dosage of Er Chen Tang?
8-12 pills, three times per day
What is Zhi Sou Tang?
- Bai Bu
- Bai Qian
- Zi Wan
- Chen Pi
- Jing Jie
- Gan Cao
- Jie Geng
What are the functions of Zhi Sou Tang?
Relieve cough, resolve phlegm, expel exterior pathogens and promote Lung’s dispersing function
What are the patterns of Zhi Sou Tang?
- Cough due to external pathogenic attack, itching sensation in the throat, difficult to spit out sputum, or with slight aversion to cold, fever, thin white tongue coating
- Itchy throat, coughing, chills, fever, aversion to wind, sputum
- T: thing white coat, P: floating
What are the cautions of Zhi Sou Tang?
Cough due to Lung Yin Xu
What is the dosage of Zhi Sou Tang?
8-12 pills, three times per day.
What is Bao He Wan?
- Shan Zha
- Shen Qu
- Ban Xia
- Fu Ling
- Chen Pi
- Lian Qiao
- Lai Fu Zi
- Mai Ya
What are the functions of Bao He Wan?
- Promote digestion
- Harmonise the Stomach
What are the indications of Bao He Wan?
- Retention of food, food stagnation: indigestion, dyspepsia, halitosis, belching, acid reflux, epigastric and upper abdominal distension, heartburn, flatulence, constipation or diarrhoea
- T: thick coat, P: slippery, big or full
What are the cautions of Bao He Wan?
None known
What is the dosage of Bao He Wan?
8-12 pills, three times per day.
What are the functions of Ban Zia?
- Dries Damp, transforms Phlegm, descends Qi. Used in Cold Phlegm in the Lungs, Spleen Xu Damp/Phlegm. Prescribed for cough with copious sputum, wheeze, phlegm in the chest
- Directs rebellious Qi downward, stops vomiting, used for rebellious Stomach Qi. Prescribed for Nausea, vomiting, epigastric/abdominal distension, belching and hiccups.
- Dissipates nodules and reduces clumps, used for obstruction caused by phlegm. Nodules, pressure distension or pain due to phlegm in the chest. Phlegm nodules on the neck (goiter, scrofula), phlegm obstruction anywhere on the body.
What is Ban Xia?
PINELLIA TERNATE
What is the classification of Ban Xia?
Nature: warm
Taste or flavour: acrid
Direction of action: descending
Site of action: Spleen, Stomach, Lung
What is the dosage of Ban Xia?
3-9g
What are the cautions / contra of Ban Xia?
Heat symptoms and Yin Xu
What is Shan Zha?
CRATAGEUS PINNIATIFIDA (FRUIT)
What are the functions of Shan Zha?
- Reduces food stagnation & transform accumulation, used for food stagnation particularly from meat, greasy and fatty foods. Digestive obstruction from eating meat & greasy/fatty food, abdominal distension and pain, diarrhoea.
- Regulates blood, transforms blood stasis, particularly abdominal pain and clumps due to blood stasis. Postpartum abdominal pain, spotting or amenorrhoea, stabbing pain in the abdomen and epigastrium, hernias.
- Harmonises the middle, awakens Spleen and unbinds Stomach, presenting as indigestion, diarrhoea, dysentery
What is the classification of Shan Zha?
Nature: slightly warm
Taste or flavour: sour, sweet
Direction of action: sinking
Site of action: Spleen, Stomach Liver
What is the dosage of Shan Zha?
6-12g
What are the cautions of Shan Zha?
Spleen and Stomach Xu (with absence of food stagnation) or profuse gastric acid secretion.
What is Shen Qi?
FERMENTED MIX OF WHEAT FLOUR, BRAN AND HERBS
What are the functions of Shen Qi?
- Promotes digestion, harmonises the stomach and tonify the Spleen.
- Presents as distension and fullness in the abdomen, poor appetite, diarrhoea
- Release the exterior and reduce fever due to external pathogenic attack with food stagnation.
What are the classifications of Shen Qi?
Nature: warm
Taste or flavour: sweet, acrid
Direction of action: descending
Site of action: Spleen, Stomach
What is the dosage of Shen Qi?
6-15g
