Constraint-Resolving Pill

Constraint-Resolving Pill

Cyperi Rhizoma (Xiang Fu) 6-9g, Chuanxiong Rhizoma (Chuan Xiong) 6-9g, Atractylodis Rhizoma (Cang Zhu) 6-9g, Gardeniae Fructus (Zhi Zi) 6-9g, Medicata Massa Fermentata (Shen Qu) 6-9g

Grind all of the ingredients into powder. Form the powder into pills the size of a mung bean using water. (Modern use: Process into water pills. One dose is approximately six to nine grams, taken with warm water. It can also be prepared as a decoction.)

Moves qi and resolves constraint.

Yue Ju Wan is indicated for the pattern of six constraints. The symptoms are chest oppression, epigastric and abdominal distention or pain, eructation with fetid odor, acid swallowing, nausea, vomiting, and indigestion.

Yue Ju Wan treats the pattern of six constraints: qi constraint, blood constraint, phlegm constraint, fire constraint, damp constraint, and food constraint.

1. Essential pattern differentiation Yue Ju Wan is the representative formula used to treat six constraints. This clinical pattern is marked by chest oppression, epigastric and abdominal pain and distention, indigestion. 2. Modern applications This formula may be used in the following biomedically defined disorders, when the patient shows signs of the six constraints pattern: gastric neurosis, gastric and duodenal ulcers, chronic gastritis, cholelithiasis, cholecystitis, hepatitis, intercostal neuralgia, women's dysmenorrhea, and irregular menstruation. 3. Cautions and contraindications Most of the medicinals in this formula are warm and dry with the action to move and disperse; therefore, it should be used cautiously in cases of yin deficiency.