<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<record type="formula" updated="2026-09-18T16:36:43.730085+00:00">
  <source>Bencao Index</source>
  <source-url>https://bencaoindex.com/</source-url>
  <canonical>https://bencaoindex.com/formulas/xiang-sha-ping-wei-san/</canonical>
  <licence>Free to use and republish with visible attribution and a link back to the source page. The catalogue is a reference work and is knowingly incomplete; nothing in it is medical advice.</licence>
  <attribution-html>&lt;a href=&quot;https://bencaoindex.com/formulas/xiang-sha-ping-wei-san/&quot;&gt;Bencao Index&lt;/a&gt;</attribution-html>
  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">xiang sha ping wei san</name>
    <name type="english">Cyperus and Amomum Powder to Calm the Stomach</name>
  </names>
  <category>Transform Damp Turbid</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Promotes digestion and strengthens the Spleen</summary>
      <indication>Food stagnation</indication>
      <indication>Fullness, distention and pain of the epigastrium that dislikes pressure; oppression of the chest and diaphragm; full, painful abdomen</indication>
      <indication>Loss of appetite or aversion to food; foul belching and sour regurgitation</indication>
      <indication>Vomiting of sour, rotten food after eating, with the distention easing once vomited</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Resolves Damp</summary>
      <indication>Stools unformed or diarrhea, or knotted constipation; hot, foul-smelling stools and foul wind</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pink with a thick greasy coat; pulse slippery</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Indigestion</indication>
      <indication>Nausea and vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Acid reflux</indication>
      <indication>Anorexia</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Constipation</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>xiang fu</herb>
    <herb>sha ren</herb>
    <herb>cang zhu</herb>
    <herb>chen pi</herb>
    <herb>zhi ke</herb>
    <herb>Bai Shao</herb>
    <herb>shan zha</herb>
    <herb>mai ya</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
    <herb>sheng jiang</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
