The efficacy of the hemp, apricot, barley and glycerin soup and San Ren Tang are: hemp, apricot, barley and glycerin soup has the efficacy of releasing dampness; San Ren Tang has the efficacy of declaring smooth qi, clearing dampness and heat.
1. Hemp, Apricot, Job’s Tears and Gan Soup: from Zhang Zhongjing’s “The Essentials of the Golden Chamber”, is composed of ephedra soup with cinnamon sticks, almonds and coix seeds. It has the efficacy of relieving the surface and dispelling dampness. It is used for the treatment of wind-dampness surface syndrome (refers to the symptoms appearing when wind-dampness attacks the skin and body surface) with pain all over the body, fever, and increasing pain in the lung and guardian of the surface of the lung at 3:00-5:00 p.m.. Adverse reactions and contraindications are not clear.
2. San Ren Tang: composed of apricot kernel, cardamom kernel, coix seed, thick park, half-summer, bamboo leaf, Tong Cao, slippery stone. It has the efficacy of promoting the flow of qi and clearing dampness and heat.
This drug is often used in the treatment of dampness-warmth (feeling dampness-heat-induced warmth) at the beginning or summer-warmth and dampness, evil in the qi (refers to the warmth-heat disease evil into the internal organs, for the Zheng Sheng and evil, positive and evil, the violent competition, Yang heat blazing internal heat), manifested as a headache and cold (fear of cold), the body trapped in the weight of the pain, chest tightness, not hungry, body fever in the afternoon symptoms. Adverse effects and contraindications are not clear.
Clinical symptoms, need to be under the guidance of a doctor to identify the evidence of the use of drugs, do not buy their own use of drugs, to avoid medicines are not the right evidence to avoid aggravation of the condition.