Divine Comedy

Divine Comedy

(on medicinal properties)

Another name is liushenqu.

[source] it is a starter made from the mixture of Polygonum hydropiper, Artemisia annua, almond, etc. and flour or bran.

[method] use 12 Jin fresh Artemisia annua, 12 Jin fresh Xanthium sibiricum and 12 Jin fresh Polygonum hydropiper, chop them up, grind red bean and 6 Jin almond, mix them well, add 100 Jin wheat bran and 60 Jin white flour, add appropriate amount of water, knead them into lumps, flatten them, cover them with straw or sack, ferment them until yellow mycelium grows on the surface, take them out, cut them into small pieces about 3 cm square, and dry them in the sun.

Another method: use 4.5 Jin of fresh Polygonum, 1.5 Jin of fresh Artemisia and 1.5 Jin of fresh Xanthium, wash and chop, add water to soak; peel almond and grind, 6 Jin; grind adzuki bean, 6 Jin, add water to make porridge, mix and mix, add 150 Jin of white flour, add a little water, knead repeatedly, then press into square, wrap with hemp leaves, put in greenhouse, ferment, cut into small pieces, and dry.

[medicinal material] it is square or rectangular in shape, about 3cm wide and 1cm thick. It is yellowish brown and rough on the surface. It is hard and brittle, easy to break, uneven in cross section and almost white. It can be seen that the brown residue and the cavity after fermentation are not crushed. It's stale and bitter. It is better to be old and have no moth.

[chemical composition] there are yeasts in Shenqu. Its components are volatile oil, glycosides, fatty oil and vitamin B, etc.

[processing] stir fried koji: Sprinkle the bran evenly in the hot pot. When the smoke rises, pour in the koji and stir fry until it is yellow. Remove the bran and cool it. Or stir fry until it is yellow without bran. Jiaoshenqu: take Shenqu and stir fry it in a pot until it is black on the outside and yellow on the inside. Take it out, spray some water and let it cool.

[flavor] sweet and spicy, warm.

① Pearl bag: "Xin. "

② "Tang Ye Ben Cao": "warm air, sweet taste. "

③ "Diannan Materia Medica": "the nature is flat, the taste is sweet. "

④ "Gangmu": "Gan Xin, Wen, non-toxic. "

[channel tropism] entering spleen and stomach channels.

① "Tang Ye Ben Cao": "enter foot Yang Ming Jing. "

② "Lei Gong processed medicine solution": into the spleen, stomach two channels. "

③ "Into the foot Jueyin liver meridian, Foot Yangming stomach meridian. "

Functions and indications: invigorate the spleen and stomach, eliminate food and regulate the circulation. It is used to treat stagnation of diet, abdominal distension, vomiting, diarrhea, postpartum blood stasis, abdominal pain, and abdominal mass in children.

① According to the theory of medicinal properties, "it can transform water and food, accumulate stagnation, strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach. "

② Zhang Yuanyuan: "nourish stomach qi. It's also a white wattle. "

③ "Tang Ye Ben Cao": "it can treat the wind in the viscera, regulate the middle and lower Qi, stimulate the appetite and eliminate the food. The main cholera heart diaphragm gas, phlegm, in addition to trouble, broken and deficiency, to cool air, in addition to gastrointestinal congestion, not food. It can be used to treat children's abdominal stiffness, chest fullness, fetal restlessness, or low back pain, heart attack, and lower blood flow. "

④ "Compendium": "Xiaoshi Xiaqi, in addition to phlegm, anti cholera diarrhea fullness. For those with low back pain, warm clothes with calcined and quenched wine are effective. For those women who want to return to milk after childbirth, take two yuan of fried wine for two days. "

⑤ Ben Cao Shu: "treatment of heat stroke, diet, fatigue, malarial Qi, swelling, accumulation of edema, phlegm, cough, vomiting, nausea, cholera, blood storage, heartache, epigastric pain, hypochondriac pain, Bi Wei, vertigo, body weight, inability to eat, jaundice. "

⑥ New materia medica: "Xiaohuang gangrene tumor. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 2-4 yuan; or grind powder into pill or powder.

[taboo] herbal classic: "spleen yin deficiency, stomach fire Sheng should not be used; can drop the fetus, pregnant women should eat less. "

[prescription selection] 1. Treat deficiency of both spleen and stomach, indigestion of water and grain, stuffiness of chest and diaphragm, distention of abdomen and hypochondrium, years on, eating less, loving lying, bitter and tasteless, deficiency and lack of Qi: four taels of black plum (baked with stone removed), four taels of dried ginger (fried with ginger), three taels of wheat tiller (fried with yellow), six taels of Shenqu (fried with mashed rice). The last part is the last, and the honey and the search are big pills, such as Wutong Zi, each pill is added to twenty pills, and the rice is drunk, and the two clothes are taken two days. (qufang Xiaoshi pill)

② Treatment of spleen deficiency can not grind food: Shenqu 42, white claw 32, ginseng 12 (all fried), Zhishi (bran stir fried) 5 money, Amomum villosum (fried) 4 money. The total is the end. Malt sugar for the pill, Wuzi big. Every morning and evening three money, white soup. (Fang Mai Zheng Zong)

③ Treatment of sudden diarrhea and food injury, chest and diaphragm stuffiness: Shenqu (fried), Atractylodes lancea (rice hogwash soaked in a night baked) each equal. For the end, batter is pellet, such as Wutong. Every time you take 30 pills, drink rice and swallow it. (Qushu pill in Ju Fang)

④ Treatment of sudden diarrhea: Shenqu (stir fried), Evodia rutaecarpa (green pick clean, bubble wash seven times) each one or two. The two flavors are fine, and the sour rice vinegar is the Wutong seed. Take 50 to 100 pills each time. Drink rice soup before eating. (Sun Yingzhong's duanxia pill in the selected prescriptions of Bai Yi)

⑤ Cure rest dysentery, day and night more than, abdominal cold pain: Shenqu, Wuti, Evodia each equal. Boil, ginger juice and pills, such as Wutong big. Drink 30 pills with porridge before eating

⑥ Treatment of postpartum dysentery, umbilicus pain: Shenqu three Liang (subtle Ling Huang), cooked dry Rehmannia two liang, Atractylodes macrocephala half. The last piece of medicine is a powder. Each service, with porridge drink down two money, three, four service. (shenghuifang Shenqu SAN)

⑦ Treatment of food accumulation heartache: a piece of Chen Shenqu. Burn red and quench wine. (pick Yuan Fang)

⑧ For the treatment of delivery of milk, but also for the treatment of delivery difficulties: at the end of the Divine Comedy, the water takes a square inch dagger. (Qian Jin Fang)

⑨ After a long period of postpartum blood stasis into a Jin. Mash, stir fry and grind. Every morning and evening take three money, before eating Amomum soup. It can also be used to treat food distention in children. (Ben Cao Hui Yan)

According to Ni Weide (qiweiji), Shenqu can cure eye diseases by generating Qi, and by heat it can restrain violent Qi. "

② "Ben Cao Jing Shu" says: "the ancients used Qu, that is, Qu for making wine. Its smell is sweet and warm, and its nature is specialized in eliminating and guiding. It can stagnate Qi in spleen and stomach and disperse cold wind in viscera. Shenqu is specially made by later generations for medical use, which is twice as powerful as Jiuqu. "

③ Bencaozheng: "Shenqu is sweet in taste and flat in Qi. It is used as medicine to stir fry yellow. It is good at helping the middle energizer and soil viscera, invigorating the spleen and warming the stomach, digesting the lower Qi, removing stagnation and regulating the middle Qi, expelling phlegm accumulation, breaking the Baihuang, transporting water and grain, removing cholera, swelling and vomiting. Its gas is rotten, so it can get rid of dampness and heat. Its nature is astringent, so it can stop diarrhea. Treatment of women due to fetal movement stagnation, treatment of children due to abdominal hard product. "

④ "Medicine Huayi": "Shenqu is sweet and fragrant. It can awaken the spleen and harmonize the stomach, so as to calm the stomach qi, regulate the middle energizer, treat spleen deficiency, diarrhea due to cold and dampness, women's fetal movement and bleeding. If the health force wins, the main Xiaomi Valley food accumulation, phlegm stagnation Baijie, chest full of malaria ruffian, children abdominal hard, all can play performance. "

⑤ According to Ben Jing Feng Yuan, "divine comedy is used to digest grain, wheat and wine, which is good after a long time. However, those who have accumulated can digest, while those who have not accumulated for a long time will consume vitality. "

⑥ "Seeking truth from Materia Medica" says: "Shenqu is composed of six ingredients: white flour, almond, adzuki bean, Artemisia annua, Xanthium sibiricum and Polygonum hydropiper. It is made by steaming and depressing the cake. Its six ingredients are one. Therefore, it can disperse Qi and regulate the middle, warm the stomach and remove phlegm, remove stagnant water, and tonify the spleen for children. However, it must be combined with tonifying spleen and other drugs, and it is better to apply them together. "

⑦ Pharmacology of traditional Chinese medicine: "Shenqu is used to promote digestive function through its fermentation function, but it should be absolutely avoided in patients with excessive gastric acid and abnormal fermentation. "

Chinese PinYin : Shen Qu