The effects of the Chinese medicine Hou Pu are drying dampness and eliminating phlegm, lowering qi and removing fullness (enabling qi to move downward to relieve distension and discomfort), and treating dampness stagnation and injuries to the middle, epigastric congestion and vomiting and diarrhea.
Houpu (厚朴), bitter, pungent and warm in nature; it belongs to the spleen, stomach, lung and large intestine meridians, and is used to treat food stagnation (the stagnation of food in the stomach due to indigestion), gas stagnation, abdominal distension and constipation, and phlegm (the pathological product of impaired metabolism of water and fluid) and coughing and wheezing.
If the treatment of gastrointestinal stagnation of constipation and abdominal fullness, often with diarrhea and attack the accumulation of (through the stool to treat constipation) of the product with the elimination of stagnation, Qi in addition to fullness, such as often used with rhubarb, Hovenia; if the treatment of phlegm and turbidity blocking the lungs, coughing, chest tightness, more with perilla, Chen Pi, half-summers and other medicines.
It should be noted that pregnant women should be used with caution.
If there is a need for medication, it should be used under the guidance of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, please do not use the medicine on your own, so as to avoid delaying the condition and causing adverse consequences.