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Health Benefits |
For: Dry cough • Abdominal pain • Shortness of breath |
Attributes: Atitussive |
Research (sample) |
Constituents:
Sugar • Maltose • Proteins • Vitamin B • Fats
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Fun Facts |
Other Names: Maltose • Jiao Tang
Plant Family: N/A |
Yi Tang is a combination of barley malt and rice flour or wheat flour. The mixture is cooked over low heat. |
Properties, Actions, Indications, etc. Category: Tonify Qi |
English: Malt Sugar Pinyin: Yi Tang Pharmaceutical: Saccharum Granorum |
Organs: Lung • Spleen • Stomach Temperature: Warm |
Taste: Sweet Toxicity: |
Patterns: Lung deficiency • Dry cough • Spleen deficiency • Qi deficiency |
Actions: Moisten lungs • Stop coughing • Tonify spleen Qi • Reduce spasms • Alleviate pain • Coat choking objects |
Indications: Dry cough • Fatigue • Shortness of breath • Poor appetite • Abdominal pain relieved by warmth and pressure • Weak voice |
Contraindications: Cloying • Excess damp heat • Phlegm heat cough• Heat • Pediatric food stagnation • Pediatric malnutrition • Fullness of middle jiao with vomiting |
Typical Dosage: 30g to 60g Guidelines |
Parts Used: |
Other: Add at very end of decoction |
Combine With |
Purpose |
Gui Zhi + Bai Shao + Zhi Gan Cao |
Spleen deficiency: fatigue, weakness, shortness of breath, poor appetite, abdominal pain [3],[5],[17] |
Gui Zhi + Bai Shao + Zhi Gan Cao + Huang Qi |
Acute Qi deficiency + spleen deficiency [3],[5],[17],[18] |
Gui Zhi + Bai Shao + Zhi Gan Cao + Dang Gui |
Acute blood deficiency [3],[17],[18] |
Hua Jiao + Gan Jiang + Ren Shen |
Yin cold, yang deficiency in the middle jiao [17] |
Feng Mi + Bai Bu + Xing Ren |
Lung deficiency dry cough [17] |
Xing Ren + Bai Bu + Sha Shen |
Dry Cough[3],[18] |
Huang Qi + Dang Shen +Zhi Gan Cao + Da Zao |
Spleen deficiency, stomach deficiency [18] |
Gan Jiang + Chuan Jiao + Ren Shen |
Middle Jiao Yang deficiency: cold extremities, vomiting, and abdominal discomfort [3] |
Sha Ren |
Restless fetus syndrom[3] |
Dang Shen + Zhi Gan Cao + Da Zao |
Qi deficiency with fatique, poor appetite and shortness of breath [3] |
Formulas with Yi Tang |
Da Jian Zhong Tang • Huang Qi Jian Zhong Tang • Xiao Jian Zhong Tang |
Alert |
Be cautions with all medicine. |
Potential Drug Interactions |
Herbal medicine may interact negatively with pharma drugs and other herbs. Examples below:
Herbs:
Pharma Drugs:
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[5], [8]
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