Half-summer and thick-park soup is from “The Essentials of the Golden Chamber”, in which it is written that half-summer is 1 liter, thick-park is 3 taels, poria is 4 taels, ginger is 5 taels, and dried Su leaves are 2 taels. However, the clinical dosage should be decided according to the patient’s condition and should not be copied from the book.
Hanxia Houpu Tang can move Qi and open up depression, reduce rebelliousness and resolve phlegm (correcting rebellious Qi and removing phlegm from the body). It is used for women who have sizzling slices of phlegm in the throat; the qi of joy, anger, sadness, thought, worry, fear and shock is formed into phlegm and saliva, which is like broken floss or plum nucleus, between the throat, cannot be clucked out, cannot be swallowed, which is caused by the seven qi.
Half-summer and thick-park broth may be used in the treatment of middle-epigastric plumpness (stomach distension and discomfort), uncomfortable qi, or phlegm-saliva congestion (abnormal phlegm, excessive production of saliva), asthma and shortness of breath, or vomiting and nausea due to phlegm-drinking (pathological products formed by impaired metabolism of fluids and liquids).
It is recommended that patients be treated with medication under the guidance of a doctor’s diagnosis, and never self-medicate to avoid aggravating the condition.