What are the effects and functions of agarwood?

Many people don't know much about the Chinese medicine agarwood. It is a common Chinese medicine that can mainly prevent wind and promote blood circulation. It is usually taken orally and has a bitter taste. Other Chinese medicines combined with agarwood can play different functions and effects. It can treat chest tightness, irritability caused by hot weather, and vomiting caused by heating.

[Main ingredients] Agarwood, costus root, bupleurum, magnolia bark, cardamom, amomum villosum, curcuma, siler, kudzu root, lindera strychnifolia, fructus aurantii (fried with bran), tangerine peel, platycodon, betel nut, fried malt, fried barley sprout, peucedanum chinense, green tangerine peel (fried with bran), angelica dahurica, sandalwood, aldosteron, notopterygium wilfordii, patchouli, and liquorice. 【Effects and Functions】Soothes the exterior, resolves stagnation, soothes the liver and harm It is used for external evil that has not been completely eliminated, liver and stomach qi stagnation, chest tightness and abdominal distension, pain in the ribs, acid regurgitation and vomiting. 【Usage and Dosage】 Qu medicine. Oral administration, 9 grams at a time, twice a day, decoction or for prescription use.

[Detailed Usage] This product is a medicine for relieving qi, relieving depression, harmonizing the stomach and relieving pain. It is mostly used for symptoms such as liver-stomach qi stagnation, liver depression and side pain. The clinical manifestations include abdominal distension and pain, or distension and pain in the flanks, chest tightness, irritability, or vomiting, acid reflux, hiccups, fullness and noisy feeling, etc.

This medicine can be used for patients diagnosed with chronic gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcers, chronic hepatitis, gastric neurosis, indigestion, etc. by Western medicine.

Note: The prescription comes from Volume 17 of the Ministry of Health’s Drug Standards for Chinese Medicine Formulae.