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It is used for the inclusive pattern called the "Five Diaphragms", which is composed of five
separate patterns:

(i) "Harassed diaphragm": knotted feeling in the chest, regurgitation of fluids, food

does not descend, weight loss and breathlessness.

(ii) "Sad diaphragm": feeling of fullness under the heart, hiccup, sour regurgitation,

diarrhoea and difficult urination.

(iii) "Qi diaphragm": fullness of chest and hypochondrium, choking feeling and

vomiting of foul-smelling food.

(iv) "Cold diaphragm": feeling of fullness and distension of abdomen and

heart-region, cough, breathlessness, feeling of cold in the abdomen (literally

"bitter and cold feeling in the abdomen"), borborygmi and umbilical pain.

(v) "Heat diaphragm": 5-palm heat, dry mouth, mouth ulcers, hot limbs, dry lips, hot

body, back ache, pain in the chest radiating to back and inability to eat much.

This prescription has a profound influence on the mental state and is very effective when
tiredness is linked to mental depression and, on a physical level, with a feeling of tightness of the
diaphragm as described above.

Patent Remedies

Yue Ju Wan
(Gardenia-Ligusticum Pill)

Xiang Fu Rhizoma Cyperi rotundi

Cang Zhu Rhizoma Atractylodis lanceae

Shan Zhi Zi Fructus Gardeniae jasminoidis

Chuan Xiong Radix Ligustici wallichii

Shen Qu Massa Fermentata Medicinalis

Explanation

This is a magnificent remedy for chronic tiredness from Liver-Qi stagnation, especially in men. I
have used this remedy for such cases over and over again, always with good results.

The tongue and pulse presentation appropriate to this remedy is a body with Red sides and a
Wiry-Full pulse.

Xiao Yao Wan