Chen Pi, Gardenia, Job’s Tears have the efficacy of clearing heat and removing dampness, regulating qi and strengthening the spleen, etc., but the effect is not obvious after soaking in water.
1. Chenpi has the effect of regulating qi and strengthening spleen (regulating qi and strengthening spleen), drying dampness and resolving phlegm (removing phlegm in body by drying dampness medicine), used in the treatment of epigastric distension and fullness (stomach and abdominal distension and fullness), eating less and vomiting and diarrhea, coughing with much phlegm.
2. Gardenia has the efficacy of diarrhea (clearing out the diarrhea of fire-heat in body, getting rid of irritability), clearing away heat and dampness, cooling blood and detoxifying, used for heat disease and heartburn, damp-heat and jaundice, blood gonorrhea and astringent pain (appearing to urinate blood and accompanied by pain), blood-heat and epistaxis (due to blood-heat caused by spitting out blood and nosebleed), redness of eyes and swelling and pain (conjunctiva of eyes is red and swollen and painful), sores and ulcers of fire-poisoning.
3. Job’s tears, when used as medicine, is called Coix lacryma, which has the efficacy of inducing water and seeping dampness (promoting the operation of water to get rid of dampness), strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea, removing paralysis, draining pus, and removing toxins and dispersing knots, and is used in the treatment of oedema, athlete’s foot, dysuria (unruly urine), diarrhea due to deficiency of the spleen, dampness paralysis with constriction, carbuncle (sores on the lobes of the lungs), warts (benign redundancies occurring on the superficial surface of the skin), and cancerous tumors.
Therefore, the combination of Chen Pi, Gardenia, Coix Seed has the efficacy of clearing heat and removing dampness, regulating qi and strengthening the spleen, etc. However, the content of effective substances is limited after the drug is soaked in water, and it is difficult to achieve the purpose of treating diseases.
Chinese medicine should be carefully identified, if you need to use drugs should be timely to the hospital to accept the consultation, under the guidance of professional physicians to use drugs, do not blindly take on their own.