Botanical Name: Massa Medicata Fermentata
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Shen Qu
Category: Relieve Food Stagnation
Taste: Sweet, Acrid
Temperature: Warm
Channels Entered: Stomach, Spleen
Dosage: 6-15g
Cautions & Contraindications:
- None
Actions & Indications:
- Reduces food stagnation and harmonizes the Stomach: for Stomach cold with food stagnation or accumulation, with such symptoms as epigastic and abdominal fullness or distention, lack of appetite, borborygmus and diarrhea.
- Also added to pills that contain minerals to aid in their digestion and absorption, as in Magnetite and Cinnabar Pill.