Medicated
leaven (Shenqu)
Massa Fermentata Medicinalis
Pharmaceutical Name: Massa Fermentata Medicinalis.
Common Name: Medicated leaven.
Source of Earliest Record: Yaoxing Lun
Part Used & Method for Pharmaceutical
Preparations: Medicated leaven is a fermented mixture of wheat flour, bran
and the fresh aerial parts of Armented annua, Xanthium sibixicum, Polygonum
hydropiper and other herbs.
Properties & Taste: Sweet, pungent
and warm.
Meridians: Spleen and stomach.
Functions: To eliminate food retention
and harmonize the stomach.
Indications & Combinations:
1. Retention of food manifested as
epigastric and abdominal distension and fullness, no appetite, gurgling sound
and diarrhea. Medicated leaven (Shenqu) is used with Hawthorn fruit
(Shanzha) and Germinated barley (Maiya).
2. It is made into pills and taken with
pills with mineral ingredients in “Magnetite
and Cinnabaris pills” (Ci Zhu Wan) to assist digestion and absorption.
Dosage: 6-15 g, decocted in water or
used as pills for an oral dose. Parched Massa Fermentata Medicinalis is used to
promote digestion and resolve food retention. A carbonized mixture is used for
diarrhea; the crude mixture is made into pills or paste.
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