Half-summer, thick-park soup has the efficacy of moving qi, dispersing knots, subduing rebelliousness and resolving phlegm (correcting retrograde qi and clearing phlegm-evil from the body), and has the effect of treating prune-belly qi (similar to pharyngeal synesthesia).
Half-summer and thick-park soup is from “The Essentials of the Golden Chamber”, which is composed of half-summer, thick-park, poria, ginger, and suye. It is a commonly used formula for the treatment of plum nucleus qi caused by emotional upset, phlegm-qi interlacing (phlegm in the body accompanied by poor qi), and the symptoms of this disease are as if there is something obstructing the pharynx, and there is no way to gag or vomit, no way to swallow, and there is fullness of the chest and the diaphragm, with either coughing or vomiting.
When taking Huperzia-Huperzia Tang, it is necessary to apply it rationally under the diagnosis of professional Chinese medicine practitioners and avoid taking it privately, so as not to cause physical discomfort.