Muxiang Shunqi Pill and Muxiang Fenqi Pill are usually different from each other in terms of ingredients, character, efficacy and indications.
1. Ingredients: Both of them contain medicines to strengthen the spleen and promote the flow of qi, such as wood sorrel, sand nut, Chen Pi, thick park, etc. However, the former also contains medicines such as green peels, ginger, and Cangzhu; and the latter also contains medicines such as cloves, Hovenia, and Curcuma.
2. Characteristics: the former taste bitter, brown water pills; the latter taste slightly pungent, yellow-brown water pills.
3. Effects: The former can strengthen the spleen and stomach (restore the function of the spleen and stomach), and also work to resolve dampness; the latter can regulate qi to stop vomiting, but also broaden the chest to eliminate flatulence.
4. Indications: both can be used for spleen and stomach disharmony, but the former is suitable for nausea, vomiting, chest and diaphragm congestion and other spleen and stomach disharmony, accompanied by dampness in the obstruction; the latter is suitable for chest and ribs (chest and ribs) distension and fullness, epigastric (abdominal) pain, such as liver and stomach disharmony (the function of the liver rising and stomach and internal organs down the incoherent), accompanied by liver stagnation and qi stagnation (the liver’s qi and blood transport is not smooth, emotional depression) people.
Both drugs should be used with caution in pregnant women. Adverse reactions are not clear. It is recommended that patients choose the appropriate medication for treatment under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner’s evidence-based guidance, and not blindly self-medication, so as not to cause delays in the condition.