One stuck patch, sixty days
Chai Hu Shu Gan San 6 Pack
6 bottles · 360 tablets · about 60 days at 6 a day
Chai Hu Shu Gan San is the brisk Liver formula, picked when tension had properly settled in under the ribs. Six bottles cover sixty days, a defined spell with a clear point at the end to stop and take stock. Why take it over weeks
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A firm push, for a set stretch
This isn't a formula herbalists left people on indefinitely. It's one of the more moving ones, full of fragrant herbs like cyperus, tangerine peel and finger citron, and the traditional caution was that months and months of moving herbs could leave you feeling a bit dry and depleted. So it was used for a stuck patch. Tension well set in, the tight sides, the sighing, the short fuse. Then, once things had loosened, many practitioners would switch to something gentler. Sixty days fits that nicely. Long enough to give it a fair go, with a natural end built in.
Expect it to be a formula you notice in the context of your life. Stressful weeks will still be stressful. Herbalists saw it as a nudge, and paired it with moving your body and letting off steam. If the tension is mostly emotional and getting on top of you, that's a conversation worth having with your GP too.
10 days a bottle, about 60 days in all
Sixty days with a review at the end
Bottles 1–2
Days 1 to 20
Three when you get up, three later on. Where's the tension sitting, and when does it flare? Herbalists cared a lot about the link with mood, so a few honest notes help.
Bottles 3–4
Days 21 to 40
Keep going steadily. Gone dry, thirsty, a bit wiped out for no reason? Old sign the moving herbs are overdoing it. So stop, and have a think.
Bottles 5–6
Days 41 to 60
Finish the spell and review. Many herbalists would move on to Xiao Yao San from here. Pain under your ribs, or in your tummy, that won't go? Your GP, please.
Pregnant or breastfeeding? Then not this one, honestly, as Sichuan lovage gets the Blood moving. High blood pressure, or on water tablets (diuretics)? The liquorice in Chai Hu Shu Gan San makes it a poor fit there too. Any medication at all, have a word with your GP or pharmacist first.
Choosing between them
Where tension lands decides the formula
Stuck Qi was one of the commonest pictures in a herbalist's clinic. These neighbours share the idea, but not the details.
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Chai Hu Shu Gan San
Tension that's well set in, felt under the ribs and along the sides. Lots of sighing, a short fuse. Strongly moving, led by bupleurum and cyperus.
Tension with heat
Jia Wei Xiao Yao San
Free and Easy Wanderer with gardenia and tree peony bark. Chosen when stuck Qi has started to run hot: warm face, irritable evenings, a temper close to the surface.
See Jia Wei Xiao Yao SanStuck in the throat
Ban Xia Hou Pu Tang
When the stuck feeling settles in the throat and chest instead, with phlegm. The lump-that-isn't-there formula. Warm and drying, four tablets a day.
See Ban Xia Hou Pu TangWhat's in the box
Six bottles of Chai Hu Shu Gan San
Every bottle is the same: 60 tablets of the formula on our single bottle page, so 6 a day gives you 10 days a bottle.
| Chai Hu Bupleurum chinense | 606mg |
| Xiang Fu Cyperus rotundus | 471mg |
| Chuan Xiong Conioselinum anthriscoides | 471mg |
| Chen Pi Citrus reticulata | 572mg |
| Fo Shou Citrus limon | 471mg |
| Bai Shao Paeonia lactiflora | 471mg |
| Gan Cao Glycyrrhiza glabra | 304mg |
Also contains: Cassava starch, Hypromellose, Magnesium stearate, Polyethylene glycol, Talc.
Living with six bottles
The practical bits
Storing them
Somewhere cool and dry, out of direct sun. Leave the bottles you're not using sealed until you need them.
Best before
Every bottle carries its own best-before date on the label, so check the one you open next.
Delivery
Order before 3pm on a weekday and it goes out the same day from Essex. UK delivery is free on orders over £40.
Changed your mind?
Sealed, unopened bottles can be returned within 14 days of delivery. The details are in our refund policy.
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What people say about Chai Hu Shu Gan San
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People talk about Chai Hu Shu Gan San and IBS, or stress bloating. Why?
Because herbalists grabbed it when worry seemed to land straight in the tummy. Bloated, burpy, up and down with your mood. So IBS chats bring it up a fair bit. A treatment for IBS, though? No, it isn't. Changes in bowel habit, tummy pain that won't settle, or blood are all things your GP needs to know about.
Does it come up around premenstrual tension?
Quite often. Stuck Liver Qi was the classic Chinese medicine explanation for that tight, irritable, tender week before a period, so it's a familiar name in those discussions. It isn't a treatment for PMS or PMDD, and if your mood dips badly before periods, please talk to your GP. There's good support available.
Is spring a particular time for it?
In the old way of thinking, it was. Wood's the spring element and the Liver sits under it, and herbalists spotted stuck Liver Qi flaring up just as the seasons turned (when everything's shoving its way up out of the ground). Some practitioners would bring a formula like this out around March and April. It isn't tied to the season, though. Tension tends to ignore the calendar.
Were there habits herbalists recommended with it?
Yes. Movement was the big one, since stuck Qi wants moving and a brisk walk does that cheaply. Letting feelings out rather than bottling them up. Going easy on alcohol, which Chinese medicine thinks of as heating the Liver. And not eating when you're wound up, which herbalists thought sent the tension straight into the stomach.
Why does the 6-pack cover sixty days?
Because it's six of our standard 60-tablet bottles, and at three tablets morning and evening each bottle lasts ten days. Same seven herbs as the single bottle. Sixty days happens to suit how herbalists used this formula, as a set spell for a stuck patch with a review at the end.
Chai Hu Shu Gan San, six bottles at once
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