The difference between Echuju Pills and Echuju Bohol Pills is mainly the difference in composition, efficacy, main treatment and precautions.
1. Composition: Echuju Pill is composed of vinegared jasmine, chuanxiong, fried gardenia, atractylodes macrocephala, and liushenqu; Echuju Boho Pill is composed of gardenia, liushenqu, atractylodes macrocephala, chuanxiong, atractylodes macrocephala, xiangxiang, and betel nut.
2. Effects: Echuju Pill has the effects of regulating qi and relieving depression, relieving fullness in the middle; Echuju Boho Pill has the effects of dispersing the liver and relieving depression (treating depression by dispersing the qi of the liver), and opening the stomach to eliminate food.
3. Indications: Echu Baohe Wan is used for treating chest and epigastric congestion, abdominal distension and fullness, dietary stagnation, belching (hiccup) and acid swallowing (swallowing acid from the stomach upward to the oropharynx).
Yueju Boho Pill is used for treating stomach pain caused by stagnation of qi and food, which is characterized by distension and pain in the epigastrium (abdomen), inverted satiety (not feeling full after eating, but feeling bloated and indigestible after a while), noisiness (a feeling similar to hunger, emptiness with burning in the stomach), dullness (lack of appetite, reduced amount of food), poor food, and irregularity in bowel movements (abnormal stools), and so on.
4. Precautions: forbidden to those who are allergic to Yueju Pills, patients with serious chronic diseases, children, pregnant women, lactating women, the elderly and the infirm should be taken under the guidance of a physician; forbidden to those who are allergic to Yueju Boho Pills, pregnant women should be cautious, the spleen and stomach yin deficiency (deficiency of yin in the spleen and stomach) is not applicable to those who have a serious chronic disease, children, lactating women, the elderly and the infirm should be taken under the guidance of a physician.
If medication is needed, it is recommended to use it under the guidance of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner to identify the evidence, unauthorized use of medication may cause serious consequences.