Fermented Soybean

Fermented Soybean
Name
Fermented Soybean
Latin Pharmaceutical Name
Sojae Semen Praeparatum
Chinese Name
淡豆豉
Category
Fruits and seeds

Fermented SoybeanMore Info

Production Regions
Produced throughout China.
Macroscopic Features
Oval shaped, slightly flat, 0.6~1cm long, 0.5~0.7cm diameter. Externally black, wrinkled. Soft texture, fractured surface is brownish-black; membranous seed coat. Fragrant odor; slightly sweet taste.
Quality Requirements
Superior medicinal material is soft without pieces that have spoiled are present, with potent aromatic odor.
Properties
Acrid, sweet, slightly bitter; cold.
Functions
Resolves muscle and diffuses the exterior, diffuses depressed heat and eliminates vexation. Apply to externally contract exterior pattern, cold and heat headache, depressed heart, chest tightness, insomnia due to vexation.
Origin
The dried, fermented mature seed of Glycine max (L.) Merr.(Fabaceae).

Fermented SoybeanHerbs in the formula

Lonicera and Forsythia Powder

Lonicera and Forsythia Powder

Action:Vents the exterior with acrid-cool, clears heat, and resolves toxin.
Indication:Yin Qiao San is indicated for the early stage of a warm disease. The symptoms are fever, slight aversion to cold, absent or inhibited sweating, headache, thirst, cough, and sore throat. The tip of the tongue is red with a thin, yellow coating, and the pulse is superficial and rapid.
Coptis and Officinal Magnolia Bark Beverage

Coptis and Officinal Magnolia Bark Beverage

Action:Clears heat and dispels dampness, rectifies qi, and harmonizes the center.
Indication:Lian Po Yin is indicated for damp-heat cholera. The symptoms are vomiting, diarrhea, chest and epigastric pi and oppression, vexation and agitation, and scanty dark urine. The tongue coating is yellow and greasy, and the pulse is slippery and rapid.
Mulberry Leaf and Apricot Kernel Decoction

Mulberry Leaf and Apricot Kernel Decoction

Action:Clears and diffuses warm-dryness, moistens the lung and dissolves phlegm.
Indication:Sang Xing Tang is indicated for the pattern of externally-contracted warm-dryness. The symptoms are mild fever, thirst, dry throat and nasal cavities, dry cough without sputum, or with scanty, and sticky sputum. The tongue body is red with a thin, white and dry coating. The pulse is floating and rapid and is large on the right side.
Solomon's Seal Variant Decoction

Solomon's Seal Variant Decoction

Action:Nourishes yin and releases the exterior.
Indication:Jia Jian Wei Rui Tang is indicated for the pattern of yin deficient with external contraction of wind-heat. The signs and symptoms are headache, fever, slight aversion to wind-cold, absence of or a little bit of sweat, cough, vexation, thirst, dry throat, a red tongue, and a rapid pulse.
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