Food Stagnation aka Digestives

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Main temp/taste: Neutral, Sweet

Channels: SP-ST

-Help guide out stagnant food from digestive tract; reduce, dissolve, digest, move out

-Disorders usually stem from poor Qi & Blood circulation, emotional disturbance or improper diet

-Can be a serious issue in children

-Herbs often combo'd with tonics, transform damp, regulate Qi, purgatives

Sx: epi/ab distension, burping, acid reflux, N/V, poor appetite, loose stools or constipation, indigestion d/t Sp-St xu
Shan Zha (Hawthorn fruit)
~Dosage: 9-12g
~Temp/Taste: Sl. Warm; Sweet, SOUR
~Ch: LR-SP-ST

+Promote digestion, elim. food stag: meat, greasy foods; diarrhea, abdominal distension, pain

+Transform Blood Stasis, dissipate clumps: postpartum abd pain, clumps, dysmenorrhea, chest pain

+Bulging disorders

+Stops diarrhea: chronic dysentery-like disorders (charred partially)

+HTN, coronary artery disease, elevated serum cholesterol

C/I: Pregnancy - can cause fetal death
Meat & Greasy foods, Sour flavor, enters Liver
Shan Zha

+Mu Xiang
+Chen Pi
Shen Qu (Medicated Leaven)
~Dosage: 6-15g
~Temp/Taste: Warm; Acrid, Sweet
~Ch: SP-ST

+Reduce ST Cold, food stag, harmonize ST: epi/ab distension, fullness, lack of appetite, borborygmus, diarrhea

+Aids digestion and absorption of minerals, added to pills; Grains & Starch

+Exterior syndromes with food stag
Grains & Starch, absorbs Minerals; exterior syndromes with food stag
Shen Qu
Mai Ya (Barley malt sprout)
~Dosage: 9-15g
~Temp/Taste: Neutral; Sweet
~Ch: LR-SP-ST

+Starchy foods, milk (infants), weak digestion, loss of appetite

+Stop lactation for distension and pain in breasts

+Moves LR Qi: stifled sensation and distension in epigastrium/ribs, belching, loss of appetite

C/I: LOW dose for lactating women (up to 9g); caution for restraining lactation (30-60g)
Starchy foods, fruits, milk in infants; inhibits lactation and moves LR Qi
Mai Ya
Gu Ya (Rice Sprouts)
aka Dao Ya
~Dosage: 6-200g; Tincture: 2-4 mL
~Temp/Taste: Neutral-Warm; Sweet
~Ch: SP-ST

+Gently reduces food stag for grains and starches

+Directs Qi downward, strengthens MJ, increases appetite

+Makes skin glossy as a topical
Grains & starches, gently reduces food stag while mildly tonifying SP to promote appetite; shiny pretty face topical
Gu Ya (Dao Ya)
Lai Fu Zi (Radish seed)
~Dosage: 4.5-9g
~Temp/Taste: Neutral; Sweet, Acrid
~Ch: LU-SP-ST
~Prep: Crush before use; dry fry to induce vomiting

+Reduce food stag: fullness, distension, rotten smelling belch, acid reflux, abd pain with diarrhea
--Promotes flow of Qi in LU, SP, LI

+Descend LU Qi, reduce Phlegm: chronic cough, wheeze

+HTN

C/I: Not for long term use
Nasty smelling burp, pain with diarrhea, descend LU Qi and transform phlegm, treat HTN; crush before use or dry fry for emeticLai Fu ZiJi Nei Jin (Chicken gizzard lining)~Dosage: 3-9g ~Temp/Taste: Neutral; Sweet ~Ch: UB-SI-SP-ST +Strongly reduces various types of food stag, improve SP transport fx +Childhood nutritional impairment +Secures Essence, stop enuresis: bed-wetting, urinary frequency, nocturia +Transform hardness, dissolve urinary and biliary stonesStrongly remove all types of food stag, malnutrition in children, astringes essence, resolve masses & dissolves all types of stones, urinary/billiaryJi Nei Jin