Red bean and Chen Pi taken together can be used for the treatment of spleen and stomach qi stagnation, cold phlegm cough and other conditions.
Red bean has the effects of antispasmodic and analgesic, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, inducing diuresis and seepage of dampness (promoting the operation of water and liquid to dispel dampness) and stopping diarrhea, and is mainly used in the treatment of heart and stomach qi pain, bladder heat drenching (burning and stinging pain is obvious when urinating, accompanied by frequent urination and urgency, and discomfort of pulling in the lower abdomen), short and red urination (urine is small in volume and dark yellow in color), gonorrhea and astringency, coughing and bleeding, epistaxis, and diarrhea, and other diseases.
Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae has the efficacy of regulating qi and strengthening the spleen, drying dampness and resolving phlegm (expelling dampness by drying dampness and resolving phlegm), and is mainly used in the treatment of stagnation of qi in the spleen and stomach, dampness-phlegm and cold-phlegm coughs, vomiting, and eructation (hiccups).
Specific medication should be administered under the guidance of a specialist.