Chinese Patent Herb: Shi Zao Pills

Ingredients: Da Zao, red Da Ji (fry), Yuan Hua, Gan Sui (prepared).

Indications: relieving water and fluid retention. It can be used for fluid retention in the hypochondrium, excessive edema and tympanites syndrome. The symptoms includes coughing and spiting with chest and hypochondrium pulling pain, firm stuffiness under heart, cough and rapid asthma, dry vomiting and shortness of breath, headache, dizziness, or edama, dropsy of whole body, especially the lower body is more severe, abdominal distention, asthma with fullness sensation, dysfunction of urine and stool, or abdominal distention and fullness, obvious blue veins on abdomen. We now often use it for exudative pleurisy, pleural effusion, ascites due to cirrhosis etc that have above symptoms.

Method and dosage: paste pills or water-paste pills: 20 pills weight is 3g, or every 50 pills weight is 3g, 1.5-3g per time. Oral taking, the taking time should be according to disease condition.

Attention: You can not use salt. You should stop to using when you feel better, nourishing the body with congee. It is prohibited to pregnant woman, elder with weak body condition. It may not be taken together with Gan Cao.