Hawthorn and Atractylodes macrocephala in water have the effect of eliminating food and strengthening stomach, promoting circulation of Qi and dispersing blood stasis, resolving turbidity and lowering fat (cleansing the body of dirty and turbid substances and reducing excess fat), drying dampness and inducing diuresis, strengthening spleen and benefiting qi, stopping sweating, and stabilizing the fetus, but the efficacy of taking in water is limited. Hawthorn is sour and sweet in taste, slightly warm in nature, belonging to spleen, stomach and liver meridians, it has the effect of eliminating food and strengthening stomach, promoting qi and dispersing blood stasis, resolving turbidity and lowering fat, and it can be used for stagnation of meat and food, distension of stomach and epigastric cavity, menstrual closure due to stasis of blood, stagnation of blood in the post-partum period, tingling of the heart and abdomen, heartache, chest paralysis (stuffy pain in the chest), pain of hernia and hyperlipidaemia. Atractylodes macrocephala is bitter, sweet, warm in nature, belongs to spleen and stomach meridian, has the effect of strengthening spleen and benefiting qi, drying dampness and inducing diuresis, stopping sweating, and tranquilizing the fetus, and can be used for spleen deficiency with little food, abdominal distension and diarrhea, phlegm-drinking and vertigo-palpitations (the pathological products formed by the obstacle of water-liquid metabolism are offended, causing vertigo and palpitations), oedema, self-sweating (sweating involuntarily during the daytime, and sweating aggravated by a little movement), and fetal movement and restlessness. Attention, hawthorn avoid eating with fish, shrimp and algae, easy to be poisoned, also should not be used with pig, cow, sheep liver, milk, egg yolk, etc., easy to make the drug ineffective; Atractylodis Macrocephalae is warm in nature, any external wind-heat or warm heat, solid heat within the full bloom, yin deficiency and fire, blood deficiency, blood heat and other certificates are not suitable to be used alone. In addition, the efficacy of soaking water is limited, can not replace the therapeutic effect of proprietary Chinese medicines or tonics, such as the need for medication, it is recommended to consult a doctor in a timely manner, under the guidance of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, is not recommended to use their own medication.