Rafflesia is the dried mature seeds of the cruciferous plant radish.
It has a pungent, sweet flavor and is flat in nature. It belongs to the lung, spleen and stomach meridians. It has the effect of eliminating food and bloating, lowering qi and resolving phlegm. It is used for food and drink stagnation, epigastric (abdominal) distension and pain, constipation, stagnation and diarrhea, and phlegm congestion and wheezing.
It is often used in conjunction with hawthorn, shenqu, and chenpi to treat food stagnation (indigestion of food stagnating in the stomach), fullness or pain in the epigastrium due to stagnation of food, belching (hiccups), acid swallowing (swallowing of acid in the stomach upward to the mouth and pharynx); if combined with Atractylodes Macrocephalae for treatment of food stagnation with deficiency of the spleen; and with Radix Bupleurum officinale and Fructus Suberis for treatment of coughing and phlegm congestion and tightness in the chest with food stagnation.
Laptop is pungent and exhausting, so it should be used with caution for those who have deficiency of qi and those who do not have food stagnation or phlegm stagnation. It should not be used with ginseng.
It is recommended that patients follow the doctor’s instructions to use medication, do not self-medication, so as not to delay the condition.