Two remedies for illnesses mentioned in an ancient poem by Master Bean Shan, a practicing Taoist monk

There are two lines in the Song of Awakening of the World by Master Han Shan of the Ming Dynasty:

Musk dies first because of the weight of the incense, and silkworms die early because of the many lives of silk; a single dose nourishes the spirit and calms the stomach, and two bells of Er Chen Tang are used to harmonize the qi.

The poem mentioned in the flat stomach and two Chen Tang in the end what is the formula, what are the composition of the drugs, what is the efficacy, worthy of monk practitioners so important and respected master. Here we will talk about it from the reasoning of Chinese medicine.

The first first flat stomach, this formula is from the Song Dynasty, "Taiping Huimin and the Bureau of Dosage". It is composed of Atractylodes macrocephala, Atractylodes macrocephala, Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae, Licorice with ginger and jujube, which has the effect of drying dampness and transporting the spleen, moving the qi and stomach. Indications: Spleen-earth non-transportation, dampness and turbidity trapped in the middle, distension and fullness in the chest and abdomen, bland mouth, no thirst, lack of appetite, or nausea and vomiting, loose stools, drowsiness and drowsiness, tongue without redness, thick and greasy moss. Cangzhu in the formula is bitter, pungent, warm and dry, best at drying dampness and strengthening the spleen, so it is reused as the king. Houpu is bitter, warm and aromatic, promoting Qi dispersal, helping Cangzhu to remove dampness and transport the spleen, so it is the subject. Chen Pi regulates qi and stagnation, together with Hou Pu to restore the elevation of the spleen and stomach; roasted grass, ginger, jujube tonifying the spleen and stomach, and the qi to help transport, are the adjuvant. All the medicines match, *** play dry dampness and transport the spleen, the function of qi and stomach. Where the spleen and stomach lesions, spleen and stomach stagnation, presenting chest and abdominal distension, light mouth, less food, tongue coating white thick and greasy symptoms, can be used to treat it, so the ancients said that it is the "treatment of the spleen, the holy medicine". In later years, there are many formulas for regulating the spleen and stomach, all of which have evolved from its expansion, but it is said that this formula is the basic formula for eliminating dampness in spleen and stomach diseases.

Modern medical practitioners often used to treat indigestion, chronic gastritis, ulcer disease and gastrointestinal neurosis and other digestive disorders, have a better therapeutic effect.

As the old saying goes, all diseases are caused by four factors: qi, blood, phlegm and food. This formula can dry dampness and resolve phlegm, can move qi and strengthen the spleen, can strengthen the spleen and eliminate food, can regulate qi and help blood to be born, it can be said that for the above four causes have a certain treatment and conditioning effect. Since the qi and blood harmonization of natural essence full of God, so it is it is also a good recipe for God.

Another formula is Er Chen Tang, which contains: half-summer, orange red, white poria, licorice, ginger. It has the effect of drying dampness and resolving phlegm, regulating qi and harmonizing the middle. This formula is mainly used for the symptoms of damp phlegm, such as cough with excessive phlegm, white color, nausea and vomiting, chest and diaphragm constriction, heavy limbs, or dizziness and palpitation, with white or greasy tongue coating and slippery pulse. In the formula, hemixia is pungent, warm and dry, good at drying dampness and resolving phlegm, and also harmonizes the stomach and reduces rebelliousness, as the monarch drug. Tangerine red is the subject of the formula, which can regulate qi and stagnation, as well as drying dampness and resolving phlegm. There are two meanings in matching the monarch and minister: one is to use equal amount together, which not only complements each other and enhances the power of drying dampness and resolving phlegm, but also embodies the meaning of treating phlegm by regulating qi first, and phlegm will be eliminated if the qi is smooth; the second is that half-summummers and tangerine-red are good for long time, and there is no drawbacks of over-drying, so the formula is named as "Er Chen". This is the basic structure of this formula for drying dampness and resolving phlegm. Poria is used to strengthen the spleen and seep away dampness, so that seeping away dampness can help to resolve phlegm, and strengthening the spleen can eliminate the source of phlegm. Since Tangerine Red and Poria are designed to treat phlegm due to stagnation of qi and the source of phlegm, they are commonly used in expectorants to regulate qi and resolve phlegm, strengthen the spleen and seep away dampness. Decoction with ginger can not only control the toxicity of hemixia, but also assist hemixia in resolving phlegm and lowering rebelliousness, harmonizing the stomach and stopping vomiting; a little plum can also be added to astringent lung qi, and hemixia, tangerine red, both scattered and collected, to prevent its dryness and scattering of injurious to the right, are all adjuvant drugs. Glycyrrhiza glabra is used as an adjuvant to strengthen the spleen and neutralize the middle and harmonize all the medicines. Throughout the formula, the structure is rigorous, scattered and collected in conjunction with both the symptoms and the root cause, drying dampness and regulating qi to get rid of phlegm that has been born, strengthening the spleen and seepage of dampness to the source of phlegm, *** play drying dampness to resolve phlegm, regulating qi and neutralization of the work. The formula can also be modified, such as the treatment of damp phlegm, can be added atractylodes macrocephala, thick park to increase the power of drying dampness and resolving phlegm; for the treatment of hot phlegm, can be added gall bladder star, piper betulae to clear heat and resolve phlegm; for the treatment of cold phlegm, can be added dry ginger, fine Xin to warm cold phlegm; for the treatment of wind phlegm and dizziness, can be added tianmu, stibnema to resolve phlegm and quench the wind; for the treatment of phlegm in the food, can be added lycopodium, malt in order to eliminate food and resolve phlegm; for the treatment of phlegm in the depressed phlegm, can be added balsam ferns, green peels, tulip gold in order to dissolve the depressed phlegm; for the treatment of phlegm flowing through the meridians in scrophrophulara, phlegm To treat scrofula and phlegm flowing through the meridians, add seaweed, kombu and oyster to soften and dissolve phlegm. There are also many variations, and there are many ways to go. If you take two bells of such an effective Er Chen Tang, is not the chest and abdomen of qi smooth phlegm elimination, a harmonious ah.

If these two formulas are combined into one, called "Ping Chen San" ("Symptom Causes and Pulse Treatments"), the therapeutic scope is even wider, and it can treat the disharmony between the spleen and the stomach, the dampness and phlegm stagnation, the plumping in the chest and diaphragm, and the inability to think about food and drink.

In the poem mentioned in these 2 squares, the author may just take the meaning of its peace and tranquility, but these two sides can indeed regardless of the body of all kinds of suffering, I only use the spleen and stomach regulating qi expectorant opening of the spleen and stomach of the day after day of the original and through the efficacy of the treatment of all the diseases, in order to respond to changes, treatment of illnesses in the original. It is also implied that sometimes too much complex analysis of the evidence and drug intervention may not necessarily target the disease mechanism, to chaos system chaos, chaotic more confused, and shed the complexity from the simple, back to the spleen and stomach of the original, but can play nothing and nothing for the efficacy of the body in the spleen and stomach vitality adjustment and coordination of the body to restore self-healing function.