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Source: Pǔ Jì Fāng 普济方

Ingredients

• Huā jiāo (花椒 Zanthoxyli Pericarpium, zanthoxylum [husk]) 3–5g
• Xiǎo mài miàn fěnw (小麦面粉 Tritici Farina, wheat flour) 60–90g
• Shēng jiāng (生姜 Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens, fresh ginger) 3 slices

Actions: Warms the stomach, disperses cold, and relieves pain.

Indications: Spleen-stomach vacuity cold with cold pain in the heart [region] and abdomen, hiccup, vomting and retching. It also diarrhea and rumbling intestines due to exposure to cold-damp.

Method: Grind the zanthoxylum finely, blend with flour and water, and boil to a gruel. Add the ginger and boil a little longer.

Rationale: Huā jiāo is warm and acrid. It enters the spleen, lung, and kidney channels. It warms the center and disperses cold, eliminates dampness and relieve pain. It is commonly used in Chinese medicine to treat food accumulation, cold abdominal pain, and signs of stomach qì ascending counterflow such as vomiting, belching and hiccup. It is also used for diarrhea and dysentery, and it helps to kill worms. Huā jiāo should not be taken in large quantities. Its use should be discontinued as soon as the symptoms abate. It should not be taken in febrile disease.

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