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