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Harmony-Preserving Pill

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Harmony-Preserving Pill
ChiefShan Zha
    • disperses all types of food stagnation
    • effective for stagnation due to overindulgence of oily food and meat
This combination removes all types of food accumulation.
DeputyShen Qu
    • promotes digestion and fortifies the stomach
    • effective for removing persistent wine and food accumulation
This combination removes all types of food accumulation.
DeputyLai Fu Zi
    • lowers qi
    • promotes digestion
    • effective for removing accumulation due to grains
This combination removes all types of food accumulation.
AssistantChen Pi
    • regulates qi
    • resolves stagnation
Prevents food accumulation from blocking qi movement.
AssistantFu Ling
    • fortifies the spleen
    • drains dampness
Prevents food accumulation from inducing dampness and phlegm.
AssistantBan Xia
    • dries dampness
    • dissolves phlegm
    • directs counterflow downward
    • arrests vomiting
Prevents food accumulation from inducing dampness and phlegm.
AssistantLian Qiao
    • dissipates masses to remove stagnation
    • clears constrained heat due to food stagnation
Prevents food accumulation from producing heat.

Harmony-Preserving PillPrescription Information

Name
Harmony-Preserving Pill
Chinese Name

保和丸

Classification

Digestive formulas

Combination
Crataegi Fructus (Shan Zha) 6 liang (180g), Medicata Massa Fermentata (Shen Qu) 2 liang (60g), Pinelliae Rhizoma (Ban Xia) 3 liang (90g), Poria (Fu Ling) 3 liang (90g), Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium (Chen Pi) 1 liang (30g), Forsythiae Fructus (Lian Qiao) 1 liang (30g), Raphani Semen (Lai Fu Zi) 1 liang (30g)
Method
Grind the ingredients into powder and prepare into pills. One dose is approximately 6-9g taken with warm water. It can also be prepared as a decoction by adjusting the medicinal quantities based on the original ratio.
Action
Promotes digestion and harmonizes the stomach.
Indication
This formula is indicated for food accumulation in the stomach cavity. The symptoms are fullness, distending pain in the abdomen and stomach cavity, belching, acid swallowing, aversion to food, vomiting, and diarrhea. The tongue coating is thick and greasy, and the pulse is slippery.
Pathogenesis
This is a pattern of food accumulation caused by an improper diet and overeating. Inhibition of the qi mechanism by food accumulation results in fullness and distending pain in the abdomen and stomach cavity. When the ascending and descending function of the spleen and stomach is impaired, diarrhea and vomiting may result. Diarrhea is caused by the clear yang failing to ascend and vomiting is due to turbid yin failing to descend. A thick, greasy tongue coating and a slippery pulse indicate food accumulation. The therapeutic principles used to remedy this pattern are to promote digestion and remove accumulation.
Application
1. Essential pattern differentiation Bao He Wan is a commonly used formula applicable for a variety of food accumulation patterns. This clinical pattern is marked by fullness in the abdomen and stomach, distention and pain in the abdomen and stomach cavity, belching, acid swallowing, thick and greasy tongue coating, slippery pulse. 2. Modern applications This formula may be used in the following biomedically defined disorders when the patient shows signs of food accumulation: acute and chronic gastritis and enteritis, dyspepsia, and infants with diarrhea. 3. Cautions and contraindications This formula is an aggressive formula that attacks and dispels; therefore, it should not be taken for long periods of time. Additionally, it should not be prescribed to treat food accumulation patterns due to spleen deficiency without proper modification.
Source
《Teachings of [Zhu] Dan-xi》Dan Xi Xin Fa《丹溪心法》

Harmony-Preserving PillFormulation composition herbal medicine

Chinese Hawthorn Fruit

Chinese Hawthorn Fruit

Crataegi Fructus
Functions：Opens appetite, digests food, resolves stagnation, eliminates accumulation, invigorates blood, disperses stasis, resolves phlegm, moves qi. Apply to dyspeptic disease due to over consumption of meat, abdominal mass accumulation, abdominal swelling and fullness, abdominal pain due to stasis, phlegm and fluid retention, diarrhea, discharging fresh blood stool.
Weeping Forsythia Fruit

Weeping Forsythia Fruit

Forsythiae Fructus
Functions：Clears heat, resolves toxin, eliminates swelling, disperses stasis, dispels wind heat, also called ‘premier of sore medicines’. Apply to warm heat diseases, erysipelas, rashes, abscess swelling pain, scrofula, pyretic stranguria and uroschesis, heart fire.
Garden Radish Seed

Garden Radish Seed

Raphani Semen
Functions：Digest food, resolves fullness, downbears qi, resolves phlegm. Apply to food stagnation, abdominal swelling and pain, constipation, accumulation and diarrhea, phlegm stasis and cough and panting.
Indian Buead|Tuckahoe

Indian Buead|Tuckahoe

Poria
Functions：Promotes urination, leaches out dampness, fortifies the spleen and stomach, calms spirit. Apply to dysuria, edema, phlegm and retained fluid and cough, vomiting, less intake due to deficiency of spleen, diarrhea, and fright and nervous, insomnia and amnesia, spermatorrhea and gonorrhea.
Tangerine Peel

Tangerine Peel

Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium
Functions：Regulates qi, fortifies the spleen, dries dampness and transforms phlegm. Apply to thoracic and abdominal fullness and distention, poor appetite, vomiting and diarrhea, coughing with asthma, excessive phlegm.
Ternate Pinellia

Ternate Pinellia

Pinelliae Rhizoma
Functions：Dries dampness, transforms phlegm, downbears counterflow, relieves vomiting, disperses focal distention, dissipates binds. Apply to damp-phlegm and cold-phlegm, cough with much phlegm, phlegm-fluid retention, palpitations, wind-phlegm and dizziness, phlegm syncope and headache, vomiting and stomach reflux, gastric stuffiness, plum-pit-qi; externally used for painful and swollen phlegm nodes.
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