Classical antecedent: Yue Ju Wan (Ligusticum-Gardenia Pill)
Indications:
Mental depression, pent-up anger, resentment or frustration over a long period of time, emotional stress, tiredness (from stagnation rather than deficiency of Qi), a feeling of oppression of the chest or epigastrium, headaches, belching, sighing, slight feeling of nausea, slight feeling of breathlessness, colelitiasis.
Indications in Chinese Medicine:
Pattern: Stagnation of Liver-Qi.
Action: Regulate Qi, eliminate stagnation, pacify the Liver, lift mental depression.
Tongue: Slightly red sides (Liver area).
Pulse: Wiry and full on both sides.
Ingredients:
Xiang Fu Rhizoma Cyperi Chuan Xiong Rhizoma Chuanxiong Cang Zhu Rhizoma Atractylodis Shan Zhi Zi Fructus Gardeniae Shen Qu Massa medicata fermentata |
He Huan Pi Cortex Albiziae Shi Chang Pu Rhizoma Acori tatarinowii Gan Cao Radix Glycyrrhizae uralensis Yuan Zhi Radix Polygalae |
Dosage: 2 tablets x 2 times a day
Bottle: 60 tablets x 500mg concentration ratio of 7:1