Dried Ginger, Evodia, and Mugwort Juice，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Warms the stomach, dispels cold, and relieves pain. Suitable for cold-type peptic ulcers, characterized by cold pain in the epigastric region that subsides with warmth, worsens with cold exposure, and a thin tongue coating.
Dried Ginger, Evodia, and Mugwort Juice
Herbal Tea Name: Dried Ginger, Evodia, and Mugwort Juice
Chinese Name: 干姜吴茱萸艾叶汁
Formula
2 g bee pollen, 10 g dried ginger, 5 g evodia fruit, 10 g mugwort leaves.Main Ingredients
How To Make
Place the last three herbs in a pot with an appropriate amount of water, decoct twice for 20 minutes each time, combine and strain the liquid, then let it cool before stirring in the bee pollen to complete the preparation.
Efficacy
Warms the stomach, dispels cold, and relieves pain. Suitable for cold-type peptic ulcers, characterized by cold pain in the epigastric region that subsides with warmth, worsens with cold exposure, and a thin tongue coating.
Usage
Take one dose daily, divided into two servings. One course of treatment lasts 7 days.
Commentary
Bee pollen (Hua-fen) acts as the chief herb. Sweet-neutral in property, it channels into the Spleen, Lung meridians, and works to tonify qi and nourish. Dried ginger (Gan-jiang) acts as the deputy ingredient, pungent-hot in property, acting through the Spleen, Stomach, Heart, Lung meridians to warm the middle and disperse cold, revive yang and dry dampness. Evodia fruit (Wu-zhu-yu) adds further support, working to disperse cold, stop vomiting and check diarrhea. Assisting the core, mugwort leaves (Ai-ye) add as an assistant element, helping to warm the channels, stop bleeding, disperse cold and regulate menstruation. No dedicated envoy herb appears in this recipe, the actions being balanced among the active ingredients themselves. In sum, the prescription warm the stomach, dispel cold, relieve pain, aimed squarely at the cold pattern rather than at isolated symptoms.