Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Wan (Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Pian, 藿香正气丸), literally "Agastache Correct Qi Pills" in Chinese, is a well regarded ancient traditional Chinese medicine for seasonal gastrointestinal disorders. In China, the Chinese medicine is a household herbal remedy recommended by doctors for stomach flu, summer colds, heat stroke that are often associated with hot and humid summer weather.

Functions:
In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), our body is vulnerable to attacks of pathogenic influences such as cold, wind, and dampness. The attacks first invade the peripheral. When it occurs at the respiratory track, the body may react with symptoms like fever, cough, and headache. When it occurs at the digestive track, the body may react with throwing up and diarrhea. The pathogenic influences in modern medical terms belong to bacteria and viruses (e. g., cold viruses, rotaviruses, and Escherichia coli).

In hot and humid weather, bacteria and viruses grow and spread easily. Foods get more easily contaminated and spoiled. Temperatures vary significantly between day and night. People like to stay in air conditioned rooms, sleep without cover, drink a lot of cold water. These factors may render people more susceptible to the attacks of cold, wind, and dampness. As a result, people develop a set of symptoms that may be variably called summer colds, stomach flu, or heat stroke.

Summer colds at first have some symptoms of a common cold like chill, fever, headache, cough, and running nose. Moreover, summer colds have symptoms of gastrointestinal upset marked by nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, and bloating. When the gastrointestinal symptoms like diarrhea dominate, the disorder is more often called stomach flu, or formally gastroenteritis. When the symptoms are clearly caused by a prolonged exposure to a hot, humid environment, the disorder is often refered to heat stroke.

Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Wan is a primary herbal formula in TCM that addresses the above disorders. It has properties that separately take care of the aspect of common colds and that of gatrointestinal discomfort. It acts to disperse cold and dampness to remove external symptoms and harmonize the stomach. For this reason, it is a household Chinese medicine in China for gastrointestinal discomfort and widely used in traveling and outdoor activities, specially during the summer time.

Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Wan is indicated in China Pharmacopoeia¹ to relieve superficies with diaphoresis and eliminate dampness, and regulate Qi flow to promote digestion. The herbal formula is used for both exterior invasion of wind cold and interior injury of stagnated dampness marked by aversion to cold, fever, headache, chest distress, abdominal flatulence, nausea, vomiting, anorexia, borborygmus, diarrhea, tastelessness in the mouth, and whitish and greasy lingual fur, etc.

Ingredients:
A proprietary blend* of

*Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Wan (Pian) is made of 100% pure authentic Chinese herbs of highest qualities. Traditional preparation procedures are combined with modern pharmaceutical processes to extract the active ingredients from the herbs and to further concentrate them into pills or tablets. It is produced in the certified GMP facilities of Shanghai TongHanChun Herbs Factory (Guang Ci Tang) and is imported to USA in accordance with the FDA guidelines.

Package:
40 grams in 400 mg 100 tablets or 200 mg 200 pills per bottle.

Standard Dosage:
Take 5 to 7 pills or 3 to 5 tablets three times daily as needed. The dose should be reduced for children proportionally by weight.

Use Discretion:
Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Wan (Pian) is closely related to Bao Ji Wan for gastrointestinal discomforts. Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Wan is more suitable for those related to heat and humidity whereas Bao Ji Wan (Pian) is more for those caused by food intake.

Side Effects:
Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Wan (Pian) has been safely used with few adverse effects when it is used as directed.

Cautious Notes:
1. Do not use if the body has a hot sensation.
2. Not suitable for use if fever is not accompanied with chill.
3. Not suitable for use if the tongue fur is not white but yellow.
4. If the symptoms do not get improved within 3 days or diarrhea gets worse, discontinue use.
5. Consult your herbalist or physician before use if you have hypertension, diabetes, diseases of heart, liver, or kidney, or during pregnancy.
6. Consult your herbalist or physician before use if you are taking other medicines.
7. Keep out of reach of children.

* These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products and statements are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent disease. This information is provided to assist trained practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine with selection of products. If you are not familiar with these formulas or concepts please consult a licensed practitioner of Chinese herbal medicine and/or more in-depth reference materials.