Poria, Hawthorn, Leptospermum and Job’s tears have the effects of strengthening the spleen and eliminating food.
Poria can strengthen the spleen and seep away dampness, promote water retention and calm the heart, treating loose stools (thin and unformed feces) and diarrhea, spleen deficiency with little food, edema with little urine, restlessness of the heart and mind, phlegm-drinking vertigo and palpitations (vertigo and palpitations due to phlegm-drinking and evil qi upward), palpitations and insomnia and other illnesses.
Hawthorn can dissipate qi and stasis, eliminate food and strengthen stomach, dissolve turbidity and reduce fat (clean up the dirty and turbid substances in the body and reduce the excess fat in the body), and is mainly used for treating stabbing pain in the heart and abdomen, hernia pain, chest paralysis (stuffy pain in the chest), heart pain, post-partum stasis, gastric and epigastric distension, dysentery and abdominal pain, menstrual closure of stasis, stagnation of meat and food and hyperlipidaemia. Burnt hawthorn can eliminate food stagnation and promote food digestion, and is used in treating stagnation of meat and food, diarrhea and dysentery.
Lycopodium can eliminate food stagnation and bloating, lowering Qi and resolving phlegm, and is used in treating constipation, stagnation and diarrhea, distension and pain in the epigastrium (stomach and abdomen), food stagnation, phlegm congestion and coughing. It should not be used with ginseng, but should be used with caution for those who have a deficiency of qi, or those who do not have food stagnation (food that is indigestible and stagnates in the stomach), or phlegm stagnation.
Job’s tear grains can strengthen the spleen, stop diarrhea, remove paralysis, detoxification and dissipation of nodules, diuresis and seepage of dampness (to promote the flow of water to dispel dampness), drainage of pus, the main treatment of dampness paralysis contracture, edema, foot fungus, urinary incontinence (urine is not smooth), carbuncle, diarrhea of the spleen, carbuncle (carbuncle occurs in the internal organs of the bowels to fever, right abdominal pain, can feel the lump as the manifestation of), warts (warts) on the skin growth of sarcoma, cancer and other diseases. Pregnant women should be used with caution.
Therefore, Poria, Hawthorn, Lycopodium, Job’s tears have the above mentioned effects of strengthening the spleen, eliminating food and removing flatulence. Contraindications and adverse reactions to the above drugs are not clear, and should be used under the guidance of a doctor.