Autumn is the season when red dates are on the market in large quantities. Red dates are used both as medicine and food, and are an indispensable component of the famous prescriptions created by famous doctors to treat "visceral impatience". The Ganmai Dazao Decoction in "Synopsis of the Golden Chamber" by Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage, is a commonly used prescription for women with visceral irritability. "Ganmai Dazao Decoction" is the main treatment for "Qianmai Dazao Decoction". "Zangjiao" is a disease name in traditional Chinese medicine, which is characterized by feeling sad and irritable for no reason, or crying, irritable, or accompanied by trivial matters. There is insomnia, frequent yawning or even coma, which is a depressive mental disorder. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this disease is mostly caused by deficiency of yin and lack of blood and lack of nourishment of the mind and spirit. Anyone who has the above symptoms and meets the pathogenesis, regardless of gender, old or young, can use Ganmai Dazao Decoction to treat it.

This recipe is simple in composition, with only three flavors of medicine, all of which are common edible things. It fully embodies the essence of both medicine and food. Its functions are to nourish the heart and calm the mind, and to be sweet and soothing. Common dosage: 15g to 30g of wheat, 9g of licorice, 7 to 9 jujubes. Decoction into soup, drink the soup and eat dates. Jujube can nourish the heart and spleen, nourish blood and calm the nerves. It is an important medicinal flavor in the prescription, so ancient doctors sometimes simply called this prescription "Jujube Decoction". Famous doctors in ancient times used this prescription to achieve definite curative effects, and there are confirmed cases.

Xu Shuwei (1080-1154), a famous doctor in the Southern Song Dynasty, encountered a woman suffering from visceral disease and "weeping endlessly". He thought of the ancient prescription of jujube soup, so he prepared the medicine for her to take. It was really effective and "she recovered after taking the dose." He recorded this successful case in "Pu Ji Ben Shi Fang".

In the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a woman named Cheng Huqing. Her wife suffered from visceral syndrome when she was four or five months pregnant. His friend Guan Zhoubo told him that my ancestors once told me that jujube soup can be used to treat this disease. Cheng Huqing copied the prescription and "borrowed the prescription to cure the disease", and he was "healed with just one shot". After the famous gynecologist Chen Ziming (1190~1270) learned about it, he included it in the "Comprehensive Prescriptions for Women". These two medical cases treated by Ganmai Dazao Decoction are very representative. Li Shizhen included them both when discussing Dazao in Volume 29 of "Compendium of Materia Medica".

From the creation by Zhang Zhongjing to today, this prescription has been a commonly used prescription in traditional Chinese medicine to treat "visceral impatience". Later generations of doctors expanded the scope of application in clinical practice. For those who have a lack of energy and a lack of emotional support, they can add or subtract from this prescription. Ganmai Dazao Decoction can indeed calm the over-excitation of the nervous system and relieve urgent spasms. Nowadays, Ganmai Dazao Decoction has been added and subtracted in clinical practice, and is widely used in menopausal syndrome, neurosis, insomnia, night cry syndrome in young children, whooping cough, sleepwalking, epilepsy, gastric spasm, sinus arrhythmia, and cardiac neurosis. It is suitable for those who are prone to fatigue, frequent yawning, palpitations, and rapid pulse, and who suffer from heart meridian, qi, and yin injuries. However, if it is caused by yin deficiency and excessive fire or phlegm-fire interference, it is obviously not suitable for Ganmai Dazao Decoction. (Ding Zhaoping)