Core Tip: The Spring Festival is the most important holiday for Chinese people. Every household feasts on rich and heavy foods, with toasts and drinks flowing freely. However, after several large meals, people's digestive systems often start to act up: stomach pain, bloating, diarrhea, belching, aversion to greasy foods... Here, the editor would like to recommend some digestive health supplements in advance for netizens, to make this Spring Festival more comfortable and smooth.
Excluding "big eaters," the average person will experience some discomfort symptoms after several consecutive meals of wolfing down food, such as feeling bloated and even unwell. In this case, you should take some Baoji Wan, which can help resolve food stagnation. If your tongue coating is thick and greasy, it is mostly due to excessive diet causing "dampness," and is accompanied by gastrointestinal-type cold. In this case, you can take some Huoxiang Zhengqi Wan. If you frequently have long burps, you can use Shugan Pian, because people who often have long burps are often patients with chronic gastritis. During the Spring Festival, improper diet can lead to disharmony between the liver and stomach, and insufficient liver qi often affects the spleen and stomach.
I. Baoji Wan
"Baoji Wan" is increasingly favored by consumers for its wide range of indications and low price. Even Chinese police officers dispatched to Timor-Leste to perform "peacekeeping" missions carry Baoji Wan as a personal medicine, which shows its profound therapeutic effect.
Indications: Symptoms such as bloating, diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, fever, and headache caused by eating too much, too much variety, greasy, or unclean food.
Usage and Dosage: Small water pill form, 70 or 140 pills per bottle. Orally, 70-140 pills at a time, three times a day.
Main Ingredients: Uncaria, Chrysanthemum, Tribulus, Magnolia, Costus, Atractylodes, Trichosanthes, Agastache, Kudzu, Poria, Mint, Tangerine Peel, Angelica, Coix, Yeast, and Germinated Rice.
Pharmacological Action: Modern pharmacological research has confirmed that Atractylodes, Magnolia, Costus, and Germinated Rice all have the effect of stimulating intestinal peristalsis. The volatile oil in Agastache can inhibit excessive gastrointestinal peristalsis and promote gastric juice secretion to aid digestion. Chrysanthemum, Angelica, Atractylodes, and Agastache all have antibacterial effects. Uncaria has antispasmodic, blood pressure-lowering, and sedative effects. Uncaria decoction can relax the isolated guinea pig ileum and has a certain antagonistic effect on histamine-induced ileal tonic contraction. It can also relieve bronchial smooth muscle spasm. The principle of the blood pressure-lowering effect of Uncaria is mainly due to the direct reflexive inhibition of the vasomotor center and the blockade of sympathetic nerves, causing peripheral vasodilation and reduced resistance. Therefore, it is clinically used for gastrointestinal-type cold, acute gastroenteritis, indigestion, pyloric spasm, and other diseases.
Precautions: Avoid raw, cold, and greasy foods.
II. Huoxiang Zhengqi Wan
The most commonly used proprietary medicine for treating gastrointestinal-type cold is Huoxiang Zhengqi preparation. Its main functions have two aspects: relieving the exterior and harmonizing the middle. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that relieving the exterior means eliminating pathogenic factors from the body's surface, and harmonizing the middle means regulating the gastrointestinal tract. The two functions of Huoxiang Zhengqi correspond exactly to the two aspects of gastrointestinal-type cold, so it can take effect quickly.
Indications: Sticky mouth, headache and dizziness, stomach bloating, abdominal pain, vomiting, multiple diarrhea a day, body feels weak, mild wind-heat cold with gastrointestinal discomfort.
Usage and Dosage: Pill form: 8 pills at a time, three times a day; Water pill form: 9g/bag, 9g/time, twice a day; Granules for oral solution: 10g/bag, 10g/time, twice a day, dissolve in boiling water; Tincture: 5-10ml/time, twice a day, shake well before use.
Main Ingredients: Agastache, Perilla Leaf, Angelica, Atractylodes, Dried Tangerine Peel, Pinellia, Magnolia, Poria, Platycodon, Licorice, Areca Peel, Fresh Ginger, and Jujube.
Pharmacological Action: In the formula, Agastache expels wind and relieves summer heat, aromatic and transforms dampness, regulates qi and harmonizes the middle, as the main ingredient. Perilla leaf and Angelica expel wind and cold, harmonize the middle and remove dampness, as the auxiliary ingredients. Magnolia and Areca Peel dry dampness, remove fullness, and move qi to open the middle; Dried Tangerine Peel and Pinellia regulate qi and harmonize the stomach, lower qi and stop vomiting; Atractylodes and Porus tonify the spleen, benefit qi, drain dampness, and harmonize the middle, as the adjuvant ingredients. Fresh Ginger and Jujube can harmonize the nutrient and defensive qi, and also harmonize the spleen and stomach; Licorice strengthens the spleen and harmonizes the middle, and harmonizes the properties of the other herbs, as the messenger ingredients. The combination of all the herbs works together to expel wind and relieve summer heat, transform dampness, and harmonize the middle.
Precautions: It is not advisable to take nourishing Chinese patent medicines at the same time. The diet should be light. When taking it, it is best to avoid sweet, raw, cold, and greasy foods, because this type of food has the effect of generating phlegm and dampness, while Huoxiang Zhengqi Wan is for relieving the exterior and transforming dampness. The two are opposite in direction, and their effects naturally cancel each other out, reducing the efficacy of Huoxiang Zhengqi Wan.
III. Shugan Pian
Shugan Pian has the effects of aiding digestion, soothing qi and whetting the appetite, resolving stagnation, relieving pain and restlessness.
Indications: Pricking pain in the ribs, loss of appetite, belching, vomiting sour fluid, feeling of fullness and discomfort, wandering pain throughout the body, used for liver depression and qi stagnation.
Usage and Dosage: Orally, 4 tablets at a time, twice a day.
Main Ingredients: Amomum