Efficacy and Recipe of Gui Zhi Ginger Citrus Aurantium Soup (桂枝生姜枳实汤)

Gui Zhi, Ginger and Hovenia Tang is used for warming yang and resolving fluid (warming yang qi in the body to promote water metabolism), lowering qi and reducing rebelliousness, and is formulated with Gui Zhi, Ginger and Hovenia. Gui Zhi, Ginger and Citrus Aurantium Soup is from “The Essentials of the Golden Chamber”, which is used for treating plumpness in the heart, all kinds of inversions and pain in the heart. Cold water stays in the stomach and rushes upward, so the heart is under the plague (mainly refers to the stomach distension and discomfort), vomiting, and the water drink is not warmed, the formula is based on Gui Zhi’s warming of yang, the plaque is blocked to move the Qi to break the stagnation of the drug and the Hovenia ciliata to clear the plaque and the gas as a supplement, and ginger and the stomach to stop vomiting and warming of the water gas, the three medicines work together to promote yang and the drink and the work of the reversal of the descending. Adverse effects and contraindications of taking Gui Zhi Ginger Hovenia Tang have not been clarified, such as the need for medication is recommended under the guidance of a doctor, do not take medication without authorization.