What are the herbs to eliminate food stagnation

Clinically, common Chinese medicines for eliminating food stagnation (promoting food digestion) include hawthorn, shenqiu, jianneijin, laixianzi, etc. The specific effects of different medicines vary. 1. Hawthorn: This medicine can play the role of eliminating food stagnation (promoting food digestion), however, it mainly targets the stagnation of greasy meat. In addition, it can also move qi and dissipate stagnation (smooth the qi of the organism and dissolve lumps), and treat hernia pain, diarrhea and abdominal pain. The drug should be used with caution for those with weak spleen and stomach without stagnation and excessive secretion of gastric acid. 2. Shen Qu: This drug is mainly used for people with dietary stagnation and exogenous symptoms (mainly manifested as respiratory symptoms after feeling external evils). The adverse effects of this medicine are not clear. 3. Chicken Neijin: the drug is mainly for rice, potato, taro, milk and meat and other kinds of food stagnation (food indigestion and stagnation in the stomach) evidence, spleen deficiency without stagnation should be used with caution. 4. Lycopodium: This medicine is mainly used for symptoms such as fullness, pain, belching (hiccups), acid swallowing (swallowing of acid from the stomach up to the oropharynx), etc., which are mainly caused by food stagnation (indigestion of food stagnating in the stomach). The drug is pungent and dissipates Qi, so it should be used with caution in people with Qi deficiency and without food accumulation or phlegm stagnation. The medicine needs to be used under medical supervision, do not take it blindly on your own. If the symptoms are more serious, please go to the hospital in time.