Eat cold drinks, blowing air conditioning is everyone’s favorite way to escape the heat, but these ways are the enemy of summer gastrointestinal diseases. Because the central nervous system is in a state of tension when it is hot, blood and Qi tend to be on the surface of the body, heat and summer humidity “injury” and gastrointestinal conditions are likely to be weakened digestive function, poor appetite, etc., plus people like to eat cold, it is more likely to cause bloating, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal diseases. Huo Xiang Zheng Qi is a medicine that people always have at home in summer. When it comes to cold, headache, vomiting and diarrhea caused by heat and humidity, Huo Xiang Zheng Qi is often the first choice of medicine. Patchouli is also known as Artemisia barbata, patchouli, cat’s handle, green stem mint, etc. It is the whole herb of Patchouli, a plant of the family Labiatae. Taste: pungent; slightly warm; effect: aromatizing dampness; harmonizing the stomach to stop vomiting; dispelling summer heat and relieving symptoms. Indications: Dampness obstructing the middle jiao of the stomach and abdomen; loss of appetite; vomiting; diarrhea; cold and hot headache due to external heat and dampness; fever and drowsiness due to the beginning of dampness and warmth; nausea in the chest; nasal abscess; ringworm of the hands and feet. Suitable for: people with external wind and cold, internal dampness, faint and heavy headache, vomiting and diarrhea, people with gastrointestinal colds, people with heatstroke, seasickness, boats, indigestion causing bloating, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and people with hangovers. Icari is used for the treatment of dampness in the middle jiao, dysfunction of transportation and digestion, and loose stools, etc. It is often used together with Atractylodes macrocephala, Houpu and Chen Pi. 2. It is commonly used in the treatment of vomiting, and can be combined with Atractylodes macrocephala, Thicket, Chen Pi and Semen. 3. To treat poor appetite and abdominal distension caused by cold and dampness, it is often combined with Su Ye and Bai Zhi. 4. To dispel summer heat and relieve symptoms, raw patchouli leaves are suitable, and to regulate qi and harmonize the middle, patchouli stems are suitable. The following is an ancient recipe for the medicinal use of patchouli available in summer: 1, patchouli to treat summer months vomiting and diarrhea: slippery stone (fried) two taels, patchouli two and a half dollars, clove five points. For the end, each serving of one or two money, zhejiang rice drainage tuned to serve. (Yu lecturer experience formula) 2, patchouli treatment of cholera vomiting and diarrhea: Chen Pi (remove white), patchouli leaves (to Shi). On equal parts, each serving five money, water one and a half, decoction to seven points, warm, no time, (“one hundred selected formula” back to life) 3, treatment of malaria: galangal, patchouli half a tael each. The above is divided into four servings, each serving with a bowl of water, decoction to a jan, served warm, not yet served again. (Jifeng Puji formula “patchouli”) 4, patchouli treatment of typhoid headache, cold and heat, wheezing, cold pain in the heart and abdomen, regurgitation and vomiting, gas diarrhea and cholera, the internal organs of the false sound, mountain malaria, swelling all over the body, prenatal, post-blood stabbing pain, pediatric elimination injury: large abdominal skin, Angelica dahurica, Perilla frutescens, Poria (peeled) each – two, half of the summer Qu, Atractylodes, Chen Pi (remove white), Hou Pu (remove the rough skin, ginger juice, baking), Bitter stalks each two, patchouli (to remove the Shi) three two, licorice (sizzling) two and a half. The above is finely ground, each serving two money, water, three slices of ginger, one date, with a decoction to seven minutes, hot. If the sweat is thick, clothing is beneficial, and then decoction and take. （Although Huo Xiang Zheng Qi has the effect of relieving dampness, regulating Qi and harmonizing the middle, it is prohibited for people with Yin deficiency and fire and constipation. For special groups, such as pregnant women, children, patients with hypertension, heart disease, liver disease and diabetes should take it under the guidance of a doctor, do not take it without authorization.