Eagle Herbs

Shan Zha or Hawthorn Fruit helps digest meat and lower cholesterol.

“Digest The Mess”

This formula is called a “digestive” formula in Chinese medicine. This suggests that it helps the body digest. But the formula is really for sluggish movement from the stomach down through the intestines.

When there is sloppy, sluggish, sticky, smeary stools with a strong odor this is the formula for you. This can show up looking like either diarrhea because the stools are not well-formed, or constipation because they are sluggish and difficult to get out of the body.

Now, this formula only does half the job. This helps you digest foods that are difficult to digest. Obviously, you’ll want to pay attention to what you’re eating and look into finding out what is not easily digested and of course eating less of that.

Foods that are difficult to digest include greasy, fatty, deep-friend, dairy, meaty things. If your restaurant has a take-out counter, you may be eating foods that are tasty, but ridiculously unhealthy. I’m guessing that I’m not telling you anything new on this one.

Not everybody is VERY sensitive to dairy. This milk issue causing problems may be unique to those with a lactose intolerance. This often runs in genetic pools. Many Asians do not digest dairy well and so it may be that dairy is more of a problem for those who are lactose intolerant only.

Ingredients:
Shan Zha 山楂 crataegus fruit, hawthorn fruit Crataegi Fructus

• Helps one digest greasy heavy high-fat meaty foods.

Shen Qu 神麴 medicated leaven Massa medicata fermentata

• This herb is especially effective on fermented foods.

Lai Fu Zi 萊菔子 radish seed, raphanus Raphani Semen

• This herb is especially effective when eating a large meal causes you to cough up a lot of phlegm. Unfortunately, it also tastes like soured milk.

Chen Pi 陳皮 aged tangerine peel, citrus Citri reticulatae Pericarpium

• This herb addresses bloating and gurgling. Gets things moving in the intestines again.

Lian Qiao 連翹 forsythia fruit Forsythiae Fructus

• When food is stagnated in the Stomach and Intestines, it generates heat. This is a Chinese medicine thing, not so much something you’ll find with a thermometer. Still, this heat can rise up to the (Chinese) Heart and causes restlessness, irritability, and generally adds to the sense of discomfort on an emotional level.
• When you eat too close to bed time, the Stomach’s activity can generate heat and cause nightmares or dream disturbed sleep.
• This herb removes heat from the Stomach and Heart to address these emotional/mental issues associated with food stagnation.

Fu Ling 茯苓 sclerotium of tuckahoe, China root, hoelen, Indian bread Poria Cocos

• One of the outcomes of food stagnation is the production of “dampness” which is basically excessive fluids in the Stomach and Intestines, or fluids elsewhere that show up as edema. This herb is a mild diuretic that helps get the fluids out of the intestines through the urine.

Ban Xia 半夏 pinellia rhizome, pinellia tuber Rhizoma Pinelliae Ternatae

• This is another herb that address dampness in the Stomach, but in this formula it is also quells nausea which often arises when the Stomach contents are not descending correctly. This herb helps descend the Stomach contents.