HERB FORMULAS

HOU PO QI WU TANG - 厚朴七物湯 - SEVEN-SUBSTANCE DECOCTION WITH MAGNOLIA BARK

English: Seven-Substance Decoction with Magnolia Bark
Also Known As: Magnolia Seven Combination

HERBS AND ACTIONS

Pharmaceutical Latin
Pin Yin
Dosage
Actions
Cx. Magnoliae Officinalis Hou Po 15-24g Promotes the movement of Qi in the Middle Jiao and resolves Food Stagnation.
With Da Huang and Zhi Shi, for relatively severe accumulation and Stagnation with abdominal distention and pain and constipation
Fr. Aurantii Immaturus Zhi Shi 9g Breaks up Stagnant Qi, reduces accumulation, descends Qi, unblocks the bowels and removes Stagnant Food.
With Hou Po, for distention, swelling and pain due to Food Stagnation and Qi Stagnation.
With Hou Po and Da Huang, for constipation, abdominal distention, pain and fullness from Heat clumping with the stool.
With Da Huang, for constipation and abdominal swelling due to Food Stagnation and Qi Stagnation.
Rx. et Rz. Rhei Da Huang 9g Drains Heat, purges accumulations, drains Fire, invigorates the Blood and dispels Blood Stasis.
With Gan Cao, for vomiting immediately after eating.
Ram. Cinnamomi Gui Zhi 6g Releases the Exterior, assists Yang, adjusts the Ying and Wei, releases the muscle layer, warms the Middle and directs Turbid Yin downward.
With Da Huang, for combined Interior/Exterior conditions with chills, headache, fever, sweating and abdominal fullness and pain.
Fr. Jujube Da Zao 8-20g Tonifies the Spleen and Stomach, augments Qi, nourishes the Blood and moderates and harmonizes the harsh properties of other herbs.
Rz. Zingiberis Recens Sheng Jiang 12-15g Releases the Exterior, induces perspiration, disperses Cold, warms the Middle, stops vomiting and normalizes the flow of Qi at the center.
With Da Zao, expels External Wind-Cold and alleviates epigastric pain, nausea, and vomiting by strengthening the Spleen.
With Gui Zhi, strongly induces sweating for treatment of External Wind-Cold with chills, fever, body aches and anhidrosis and warms and dispels thin mucus in the Stomach with nausea, hiccup, Stomach pain and acid reflux or vomiting of clear fluid.
With Gui Zhi and Da Zao, harmonizes the Ying and Wei to drive out pathogens.
Rx. Glycyrrhizae Gan Cao 9g Tonifies the Spleen, augments Qi, moderates spasms, alleviates pain, moderates and harmonizes the harsh properties of other herbs and guides the herbs to all twelve channels.

FORMULA ACTIONS

  • Expels Wind from the Exterior and muscle layer
  • Regulates Qi
  • Promotes defecation

SYNDROMES

  • Tai Yang- Yang Ming with Interior Excess

CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS

  • Abdominal fullness
  • Fever
  • Tenesmus
  • Constipation
  • Vomiting
  • P: Floating and rapid

TREATS

CONTRAINDICATIONS AND HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

CONTRAINDICATIONS
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

NOTES

MODIFICATIONS

For nausea:  
+ Rz. Pinelliae Preparatum Zhi Ban Xia