What are the effects and functions of Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui
The main ingredients of Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui are Agastache rugosa (huoxiang), Poria cocos (fuling), Areca peel (dafupi), Perilla leaf (zisuye), Angelica dahurica (baizhi), tangerine peel (jupi), Platycodon grandiflorus (jiegeng), Atractylodes macrocephala (baizhu), Magnolia officinalis bark (houpo), prepared Pinellia ternata (fabanxia), licorice (gancao), and so on. It has the effects of releasing the exterior and transforming dampness, and regulating qi and harmonizing the middle. It is used for common cold caused by externally contracted wind-cold, internal damage from dampness stagnation, or summer damage from summerheat-dampness, with symptoms such as headache and heaviness of the head, chest and diaphragm tightness and stuffiness, abdominal distension and pain, vomiting and diarrhea, and so on. Below let us take a look at the effects and functions of Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui!
What effects does Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui have?
1. Relieving summerheat and eliminating dampness: used for fever, chest tightness, abdominal distension, and vomiting and diarrhea caused by externally contracted summerheat-dampness.
2. Harmonizing the stomach and stopping vomiting: used for nausea and vomiting caused by excessive dampness turbidity.
3. Aromatically transforming turbidity: used for poor appetite, thick and greasy tongue coating, diarrhea, and other symptoms caused by spleen dampness and stomach turbidity.
What effects does Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui have?
1. Relieving summerheat: Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui has the effect of clearing heat and relieving summerheat. In the hot summer, people are prone to heatstroke, often manifesting as vomiting, poor appetite, poor spirits, or colds, and so on. Here Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui can be used to relieve heatstroke symptoms.
2. Promoting digestion: Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui can treat indigestion in children. Indigestion is often related to “dampness disease”. Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui is a spleen-strengthening and dampness-transforming medicine, which can effectively relieve symptoms such as indigestion and food accumulation in children.
3. Sobering up: Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui also has a sobering effect. When people are drunk, drinking a little Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui can not only sober them up, but also promote appetite.
4. Relieving motion sickness: Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui has a certain effect on motion sickness and seasickness. Dip a cotton swab in Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui and apply it directly externally to the navel, or apply the medicinal liquid inside the navel, which has a certain preventive effect on motion sickness and seasickness.
5. Treating eczema: Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui can also be used to treat eczema. Apply Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui externally to the skin lesions, 3 to 5 times a day, for 3 to 5 consecutive days. It is also effective for shingles.
6. Treating air-conditioning sickness: Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui can be used to treat air-conditioning sickness. In summer, if you are exposed to too much air conditioning, you may also catch a cold from the chill, or have abdominal pain and diarrhea. Taking various dosage forms of Huoxiang Zhengqi orally all have very good effects.
7. Anti-itching effect: Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui has an anti-itching effect. After mosquito or insect bites, Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui can be applied to the affected area to relieve itching and sterilize. In addition, for those with vulvar itching, Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui can also be diluted 50 times with cool boiled water and then used to wash the vulva (usable by both men and women). After washing, not only are symptoms such as itching relieved or eliminated, but the local area also feels fresh and cool.
Precautions for Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui
1. Avoid tobacco, alcohol, and spicy, raw-cold, and greasy foods; the diet should be light.
2. It is not advisable to take tonic Chinese medicines at the same time during medication.
3. Those with serious chronic diseases such as hypertension, heart disease, liver disease, diabetes, and kidney disease should take it under the guidance of a physician.
4. Children, pregnant women, nursing women, and the elderly and weak should take it under the guidance of a physician.
5. Those with severe vomiting and diarrhea should promptly go to the hospital for treatment.
6. This product contains 40% to 50% ethanol (alcohol). After taking it, do not drive machines, cars, or boats, engage in high-altitude work, mechanical work, or operate precision instruments.
7. Take it strictly according to the usage and dosage; this product is not suitable for long-term use.
8. If symptoms do not improve after 3 days of medication, go to the hospital for treatment.
9. It is forbidden for those allergic to this product and alcohol, and it should be used with caution by those with an allergic constitution.
10. It is forbidden to take this product when its properties change.
Common uses of Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui
1. Not adapting to local water and soil: When going out, if you do not adapt to the local water and soil and experience gastrointestinal discomfort such as indigestion, vomiting, and diarrhea, carrying a box of “Huoxiang Zhengqi” provides preparedness. When the above symptoms appear, take 10 milliliters each time, 3 times a day, which can relieve the symptoms.
2. Motion sickness and seasickness: Motion sickness and seasickness are minor troubles often encountered during travel. You can use a medical cotton swab dipped in Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui and apply it directly externally to the navel, or apply the medicinal liquid inside the navel, which has a certain preventive effect.
3. Air-conditioning sickness: If you are exposed to too much cold wind in summer, you may also catch a cold from the chill, or have abdominal pain and diarrhea. Oral Huoxiang Zhengqi can be used for all.
4. Meniere's syndrome (dizziness, tinnitus, deafness): 10 milliliters of Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui (liquid) can be used, taken 3 times a day for 3 to 5 consecutive days. After symptoms improve, use Liujunzi Wan for regulation.
5. Indigestion in children: Indigestion is often related to “dampness disease”. Adding a spleen-strengthening and dampness-transforming medicine to a digestion-promoting and stomach-harmonizing medicine achieves twice the result with half the effort. The method is: take 6 grams each of hawthorn and Shenqu, and 10 grams of malt, decoct in water and remove the residue, then add 20 milliliters of Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui, divide into 3 doses, and use for 3 consecutive days.
6. Excessive vaginal discharge in women: 10 milliliters of Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui, 3 times a day, taken for 5 to 7 consecutive days.
7. Mosquito and insect bites: Apply an appropriate amount of Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui externally to the affected area for 3 to 5 minutes, and the itching will quickly disappear.
8. Eczema and prickly heat: Apply Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui externally to the skin lesions, 3 to 5 times a day, for 3 to 5 consecutive days. It is also effective for shingles. Those allergic to alcohol, and those with diabetes, hypertension, or who are pregnant, had best use the medicine under the guidance of a doctor or pharmacist.
9. Prickly heat in children: Prickly heat is a common disease in infants and young children. Using Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui to treat prickly heat in children has a relatively good effect. One vial of Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui can be diluted proportionally with cool boiled water or physiological saline.