Table of Contents 1 Pinyin 2 English Reference 3 General Introduction 4 Latin Name 5 English Name 6 Alias of Shenqu 7 Origin 8 Taste and Flavor 9 Efficacy and Indications of Shenqu 10 Usage and Dosage of Shenqu 11 Chemical Constituents of Shenqu 12 The Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicines: Shenqu 12.1 Origin 12.2 Pinyin 12.3 Alias of Shenqu 12.4 Origin 12.5 Method of Preparation 12.6 Characteristics 12.7 Chemical Composition 12.8 12.9 Flavor 12.10 Meridian 12.11 Functions and Indications 12.12 Usage and Dosage of Shenqu 12.13 Notes 12.14 Prescription 12.15 Explanations 12.16 Excerpts 13 References Attachments: 1 Formulas of Shenqu 2 Proprietary Chinese Medicines of Shenqu 3 Ancient Chinese Medicines of Shenqu* Shenqu 1 Pinyin

shén qǔ

2 English

Massa Medicata

1 Pinyin

shén qǔ

2 English

Massa Medicata

2 English

Massa Medicata

2 English

Massa Medicata

Massa Medicata Fermentata (拉) [Nomenclature Review Committee of Chinese Medicine. Chinese Medicine Nomenclature (2004)]

medicated leaven [中中医药學名词审定委员会. Chinese Medicine Nouns (2004)]

massa medicata fermentata [Xiangya Medical Dictionary]

3 Overview

Shenqu is the name of the traditional Chinese medicine, out of the "Treatise on the Nature of Medicine". For for spicy polygonum, artemisia, almonds and other medicines added to the flour or bran mixed, after fermentation and the formation of the currant [1].

4 Latin name

Massa Medicata Fermentata (拉) ("Nomenclature of Traditional Chinese Medicine (2004)")

5 English name

medicated leaven ("Nomenclature of Traditional Chinese Medicine (2004)")

6 Alias for Shenquan

六曲, 六神曲 [2].

7 Source

Shenqu is a quatre made from the processed medicines of Polygonum officinale, Artemisia annua, and almonds, mixed with flour or bran, and fermented [2].

8 Sexual flavor attribution

Shenqu taste pungent, sweet, warm; into the spleen, stomach meridian [2].

9 Effects and Indications

Shenqu has the effect of eliminating food and regulating the middle, strengthening the spleen and stomach, treating dietary stagnation, chest congestion and abdominal distension, loss of appetite, vomiting and diarrhea [2].

10 Usage and dosage of Shenqu

Decoction: 6 ~ 12g [2].

11 Chemical composition of Shenquan

Shenquan contains amylase, yeast, volatile oil, glycosides and B vitamins [2].

12 Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Shenqu 12.1 Origin

"Treatise on the Nature of Medicines"

12.2 Pinyin

Shén Qū

12.3 Alias of Shenqu

Six Divine Quats (Ben Cao Xian Jie).

12.4 Origin

Shén Qū is a kind of medicine made from the fermentation of Polygonum officinale, Artemisia absinthium and almonds by adding flour or bran.

12.5 method

with fresh artemisia, fresh auricularia, fresh polygonum each 12 pounds, chopped; azuki beans crushed, almonds peeled research 6 pounds, mixed, into the bran 100 pounds, 60 pounds of white flour, add the right amount of water, kneaded into a mass, flattened with straw or sacks covered, so that the fermentation, to the exterior of the yellow hyphae when removed, cut into small pieces of about 3 centimeters square, drying into the sun.

Another method: with fresh polygonum 4.5 pounds, fresh artemisia, fresh auricularia 1.5 pounds, washed and chopped, soaked in water; almonds peeled and crushed, 6 pounds; red beans crushed, 6 pounds, plus water into porridge, mixed and mixed, into the 150 pounds of white flour, a little water, kneaded repeatedly, and then pressed into a square, wrapped in linen leaves, in the greenhouse by the fermentation, cut into small pieces, sun-dried that is.

12.6 Properties

square or rectangular block, about 3 cm wide, about 1 cm thick, the appearance of earthy yellow, rough; hard and brittle easy to break, uneven cross-section, white, visible brown residue has not been crushed and fermented hollows. There is stale gas, bitter flavor. The best is the one that has been aged for a long time and is not infested with insects.

12.7 Chemical composition

Shenqu has yeast. Its components are volatile oil, glycosides, fatty oils and vitamin B, etc..

12.8 Concoctions

fried Shenqu: take the bran sprinkled evenly in a hot pan, once the smoke, the Shenqu pour, fried to yellow, remove, sieve the bran, cool; or do not add bran, fried to yellow can also be. Jiao Shenqu: take the Shenqu placed in the pan fried until the appearance of burnt black, internal burnt yellow, remove, slightly spray some water, cool.

12.9 Taste

Sweet, pungent, warm.

① "Pearl Capsule": "pungent."

② Tang Liquid Materia Medica: "Warm in qi, sweet in flavor."

③ "Yunnan Materia Medica": "Flat in nature, sweet in flavor."

④ The Compendium of Materia Medica: "Sweet and pungent, warm, non-toxic."

12.10 Attribution

Entering the spleen and stomach meridians.

① Tang Liquid Materia Medica: "Entering the foot Yangming meridian."

② "Lei Gong Cannonical Medicinal Explanation": "Into the spleen and stomach meridians."

③ "Explanation of the Classic of the Materia Medica": "Enters the liver meridian of the foot syncope and the stomach meridian of the foot yangming."

12.11 Functions

Strengthening the spleen and stomach, eliminating food and regulating the middle. It is used in treating food stagnation, abdominal distension, vomiting and diarrhea, postpartum abdominal pain, and children with large abdominal stagnation.

① "Treatise on Medicinal Properties": "dissolve water and grain stagnation, syndrome stagnation, strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach."

② Zhang Element: "Nourish the stomach gas. The treatment is also Bai Jing."

③ "Tang Liquid Materia Medica": "Treatment of wind and gas in the internal organs, regulating the middle and lowering the qi, appetizing and eliminating stagnant food. Main cholera heart diaphragm gas, phlegm, in addition to annoyance, break the knot and fill the deficiency, go cold, in addition to the intestines and stomach in the plug, do not eat. It can cure children's abdomen firm and large as a plate, fullness in the chest, restlessness of the fetus, or waist pain robbing the heart, more than blood."

④ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Eliminate food and gas, in addition to phlegm and cholera dysentery and distension. Flashback lumbago, calcined over quenching wine warm service is effective, women who want to return to the breast after delivery, fried research wine service two money, day two."

⑤ "The Materia Medica": "Treatment of heatstroke, dietary injury, injury, fatigue, malaria, edema, distension, accumulation, phlegm, cough, vomiting and regurgitation, cholera, blood storage, heartburn, gastric pain, dystocia, impotence, dizziness, body weight, unable to eat, jaundice."

(6) "The Materia Medica Rexin": "Eliminate scrofula and tumors."

12.12 Usage and Dosage of Shenqu

For internal use: decoction, 2 to 4 qian; or crushed into pills and powder.

12.13 Note

The Classic of Materia Medica: "It should not be used if the spleen yin is deficient and the stomach is full of fire; it can bring down the fetus, so pregnant women are advised to eat it sparingly."

12.14 prescription

① treatment of the spleen and stomach are weak, can not digest the water and grain, chest and diaphragm plagued, abdominal distension, for years and months, food loss of sleepiness, bitter tasteless mouth, weak and less gas: umeboshi (core roasted dry), dry ginger (cannon) each four taels, shoots from an old stump (fried yellow) three taels, the god of the quartz (mashed fried) six taels of two money. The above pieces for the end, refined honey and search for pills such as sycamore seeds, each serving fifteen pills plus to twenty pills, rice drink down, two services a day, regardless of time. ("Taiping Huimin and Dosage Bureau prescription" digestion pill)

② treatment of spleen deficiency can not grind food: Shenqu four two, white claw three two, ginseng one or two (all fried), Hovenia (bran mixing fried) five money, sand nuts (fried) four money. *** for the end. Caramel for the pill, sycamore big. Every morning and evening each take three money, white soup down. ("Square pulse authentic")

③ treatment of summer diarrhea and dietary injuries, chest and diaphragm plagued: Shenqu (fried), Cangzhu (rice slop soaked overnight roasted dry) each equal parts. For the end, the batter for the pill, such as sycamore seeds big. Take thirty pills each time and swallow them with rice drink. ("Taiping Huimin Hejiaobu Fang" Qujiao pill)

④ treatment of diarrhea: Shenqu (slightly fried), Cornus officinalis (green pick clean, soak and wash seven times) each one or two. The above two flavors for the fine powder, to acid rice vinegar as pills such as a sycamore seed size. Each serving of fifty pills to one hundred pills, empty heart before eating rice drink soup down. ("is Zhai hundred a selected formula" Sun Yingzhong - broken down pill)

⑤ treatment of rest dysentery, day and night more than the cold pain in the abdomen: Shenqu, Wuhu catkin, Wu Juju, each equal parts. Boil, ginger natural juice and pills, such as sycamore big. Thirty pills of congee drink before eating, ("Pu Ji Fang" Shen Qu pill)

⑥ treatment of post-partum cold dysentery, umbilical cord under the pain: Shen Qu three two (subtle to make the yellow), cooked dry rhubarb two two, atractylodis Macrocephalae one two and a half. The above pieces of medicine pounded fine Luo for loose. Each service, to the porridge drink under two money, three or four times a day. ("Taiping Shenghui Fang" Shenqu San)

(7) treatment of food accumulation heart pain: Chen Shenqu a piece. Burn red, quench the wine and take it in two big bowls. ("Picking Yuan Fang")

⑧ treatment of lactation, but also to treat the birth of difficult: Shenqu end, water, square inch dagger. ("Preparing for the emergency Qianjin to be square")

⑨ treatment of postpartum blood stasis is not transported, abdominal distension, gradually into dropsy: Chenjiu Shenqu a catty. Crushed, slightly fried grinding for the end. Each morning and evening each served three money, before eating sand nut soup mixing service. It can also cure children's food dropsy. ("Materia Medica Huiyin")

12.15 the discussion

① "Materia Medica Compendium": "According to Ni Weide (Qi Wei Collection): Shenqu treatment of eye disease, raw with the angry, hot with the violent gas can be converged."

② "Materia Medica": "The ancients used qu, that is, the wine-making qu, its odor sweet and warm, sex specializing in elimination, line spleen and stomach stagnant gas, scattering visceral wind cold. Shenqu is the later specializing in manufacturing, for medicinal purposes, the force doubled the wine song."

③ "Materia Medica is": "Shenqu, taste sweet gas flat, fried yellow into the medicine, good to help the middle Jiao soil organs, strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, eliminate food under the gas, stagnation and adjust the middle, expel phlegm, break the obstruction, transportation of water and grain, in addition to the cholera bloating and vomiting. Its gas is corrosive, so it can remove dampness and heat, and its nature is astringent, so it can stop diarrhea and dysentery. It is also used to cure woman's fetal movement due to stagnation, and to treat children's abdominal firmness due to accumulation."

④ "Drugs": "Shenqu, taste sweet, fried incense, incense can wake up the spleen, sweet can be negotiated with the stomach, in order to level the stomach gas, the middle Jiao, with the treatment of the spleen is difficult to transport, cholera and vomiting, cold and dampness, diarrhea, the woman's fetal movement rob heart, more than blood. If the raw force win, the main elimination of rice and grain food accumulation, phlegm stagnation syndrome, chest fullness malaria plaque, children's abdominal firm, all can play performance."

⑤ "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "Shen Qu, its function is specialized in digesting grain, wheat and wine accumulation, Chenjiu good. But those who have the accumulation can be digested, and those who do not have the accumulation and take it for a long time will eliminate the vitality of the people."

(6) "Materia Medica seek the truth": "Shenqu, pungent, sweet and warm, the material in the white noodles, almonds, red beans, artemisia, cang'er, red polygonum six flavors, for the cake steamed from the nature of the six flavors, so it can spread the gas and adjust the middle, warming the stomach to resolve the phlegm, water stagnation, children to replenish the spleen, the doctor more than this as a cure, the cover of the Xin is not very loose, Gan is not very congested, warm and do not see the dry also. However, it must be combined with complementary spleen and other medicines, and the application is good."

(7) The Pharmacology of Chinese Medicines: "Shenqu, is to promote digestion through its fermentation, but in patients with excessive stomach acid, fermentation abnormalities, should be absolutely avoided."

12.16 Excerpts

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