Name of Formula: ban xia hou pu tang （Jin Gui Yao Lue)

Application: depression, sensation of there is something in the throat that cannot be expelled or swallowed. Fullness in the chest, or coughing, or vomiting, oily and white tongue, slippery and tight pulse.

Composition:

fa ban xia 12 g, (smash), hou pu 9 g, fu ling 15 g,  gan jiang 6 g,  zi su leaves 6 pieces (to be cook during the last one and half minutes)

Add about 3 serving size bowls of water to all herbs, except zi su leaves (which are to be cooked during the last one and half minutes) and cooked for about 40 minutes till 2 bowl of liquid is left.  Then add zi su leaves. Stir and cook for another one and half minutes.

藥方名：半夏厚朴湯 《方源：金櫃要略 》

主治：

七情鬱結，咽中如有物阻，吐之不出、吞之不下，胸脅滿悶，或咳或嘔，舌苔白膩，脈弦滑。

組成：

法半夏四錢（打碎）、川厚朴三錢、白茯苓五錢、乾薑二錢、乾紫蘇葉六張（後下）。

水三碗，大火滾後，改用慢火，煎大若40 分鐘。煎成二碗。才加入紫蘇葉，攪拌，再煎一分半鐘，不可過久，以免其有效的揮發油損失。
午餐前半小時及睡前一小時，各服一碗。