What are the main herbs that improve digestion?

The main Chinese herbs that can promote digestion include hawthorn, malt, lycopodium, and henneijin. 1. Hawthorn: Sour, sweet, slightly warm. It belongs to spleen, liver and stomach meridians. It has the effects of strengthening stomach and eliminating food, promoting circulation of Qi and dispersing blood stasis, resolving turbidity and lowering fat (cleansing the body of foul substances and reducing excess fat). Used for gastric distension, meat and food stagnation, abdominal pain and diarrhea and other conditions. 2. Malt: sweet, flat. Attributed to the spleen, stomach meridian. It has the effect of eliminating food and promoting circulation of Qi, opening the stomach and strengthening the spleen, restoring breast milk and eliminating flatulence. It can be used for the distension and pain in the epigastrium (abdomen), food stagnation (poor digestion of food and stagnation in the stomach), breast milk accumulation, breast distension and pain, liver depression and coercive pain (pain in the area of coercion and ribs). 3. Rafflesia: Pungent, sweet, and flat. Attributes to spleen, stomach and lung meridians. It has the effect of eliminating food stagnation, removing flatulence, resolving phlegm and lowering qi. It is used for food stagnation, epigastric distension, constipation, stagnation and diarrhea. 4. Chicken Neijin: sweet, flat. Attributed to the spleen, stomach, bladder, small intestine meridian. It has the effect of strengthening the stomach and eliminating food, astringing semen and stopping spermatorrhea (consolidating semen and preventing spermatorrhea), dissolving stones and opening gonorrhea. It is used in treating food accumulation, vomiting, pediatric chancre (a kind of chronic disease of children, manifesting as emaciation, abnormal diet, abdominal distension, thinning and yellowing of hair, etc.), spermatorrhea, enuresis, and other diseases. If you need to use the medicine, you should go to the regular hospital, under the guidance of the doctor to identify the evidence, do not take the medicine by yourself, so as not to delay the condition.