SUDDEN SMILE VARIATION
Shi Xiao Si Wu

 

Source: Experiential formula 

Keywords
IBD, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, gastritis

Ingredients
Excrementum Trogopteri seu Pteromi (Wu Ling Zhi)
Pollen Typhae (Pu Huang)
Rhizoma Cyperi (Xiang Fu)
Carthamus tinctorius (Hong Hua)
Prunus persica (Tao Ren)
Ligusticum walichii (Chuan Xiong)
Paeonia alba (Bai Shao)
Citrus aurantium (Zhi Ke)
Radix Linderae (Wu Yao)
Forsythia suspensa (Lian Qiao)
Lonicera japonica (Jin Yin Hua)

Major therapeutic action
Regulates qi, activates stagnated Blood, and clears Heat.

Biomedical action
Stops diarrhoea, relieves pain.

Indications
o  Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
o  Ulcerative colitis
o  Crohn’s disease
o  Gastritis

Key symptoms for use
o  piercing abdominal pain
o  nausea
o  vomiting
o  distension and fullness
o  belching
o  mild jaundice
o  fatty stools
o  chills
o  fever
o  skin, clammy
o  sweating
o  weakness
o  weight loss
o  pain both fixed / piercing and moving / intermittent
o  anxiety, or irritability, or stress and depression
o  pale tongue with purple hue or swollen sub-lingual veins 

Cautions and contraindications
None noted.
Pregnancy / Lactation.
Warfarin.
Dosage
5 to 8 grams twice daily until acute pain diminishes, then reduce to 3 to 5 grams twice daily, then re-evaluate.