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title: "Shen Qu"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/587/shen-qu"
---

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# Shen Qu

### Massa Medicata Fermentata

_acrid, sweet, warm_

#### PRIMARY FUNCTION:

_**Relieves Food Stagnation**_

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Food stagnation
- Epigastric or abdominal fullness
- Poor appetite
- Borborygmus
- Diarrhea

Shen Qu is sweet, acrid, and warm. It enters the spleen and
stomach to treat indigestion.

**Channels:** spleen, stomach

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL
POSSIBILITIES:
- Mineral malabsorption
- Indigestion
- IBS
- Belching
- Bloating
- Constipation

**Formulas:**
- Bao He Wan
- Bu Shen Yi Gan Tang
- Ci Zhu Wan
- Fei Er Wan
- Ge Hua Jie Cheng San
- Jian Pi Wan
- Qi Gong Wan
- Yi Jia Jian Zheng Qi San
- Yue Ju Wan
- Zhi Shi Dao Zhi Wan

**Contraindications:** there are no contraindications
documented for Shen Qu

**Zoo Image:** a hippo isn’t eating his junk food but has a radio playing on his
abdomen while leaning on a porta-poop

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