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Inula and Red Ochre Decoction xuan fu dai zhe tang
[SOURCE]: Treatise on Cold-Attack
[INGREDIENTS]:Inula flower(to be decocted in packet) 9g, Ginseng 6g, Fresh ginger lOg, Red ochre 5g, Roasted licorice root 6g, Pinellia tuber 9g, Chinese date 4 pcs.
[DIRECTIONS]:Decoct all the herbs mentioned in water for oral administration.
[EFFECTS]: Warming the stomach and resolving phlegm, and lowering the adverse flow of qi to stop belching.
[INDICATIONS]: Syndrome of internal retention of phlegm-turbidity due to deficiency of stomach-qi manifested by epigastric fullness and rigidity, frequent belching, vomiting, salivation, white smooth coating of the tongue, taut and feeble pulse.
[ANALYSIS OF FORMULA]: Inula flower in the formula lowers the adverse flow of qi to relieve belching and expels phlegm to relieve stuffiness. Red ochre, being a heavy material with descending nature, functions in lowering the adverse flow of qi and removing phlegm to stop vomiting. These two ingredients are used as principal herbs. Fresh ginger warms the stomach to expel cold and harmonizes the stomach to stop vomiting, and pinellia tuber functions in drying dampness, removing phlegm, resolving masses and relieving stuffiness, acting as assistant herbs. Ginseng invigorates the spleen and stomach to consolidate the middle-jiao. Chinses date is used to assist ginseng in replenishing qi to harmonize the middle. These two are adjuvant herbs. Roasted licorice root has the effect of moderating the properties of all the other ingredients, and plays the role of dispatcher herb, Today this formula is often used for internal retention of phlegm-turbidity due to stomach-cold and deficiency of the middle-jiao marked by belching, nausea, vomiting with hiccough involved in functional gastrointestinal disorder chronic gastritis, gastroptosis, gastric dilatation, gastric and duodenal ulcer, incomplete pylorochesis and neurogenic hiccup, etc.
