The formula went head to head with a prescription PPI. It scored better.

Both groups improved. The herbal formula group finished with better heartburn, acid regurgitation, food regurgitation, and total reflux questionnaire scores.

The herbal group drank Xuanfu Daizhe Decoction twice a day. The other group took rabeprazole once a day.

After eight weeks, the herbal group finished with an average total reflux questionnaire score of 7.91. The rabeprazole group finished at 11.75. Lower was better, so the herbal formula group came out about 33% lower.

The formula also scored better on heartburn, acid regurgitation, and food regurgitation. Both groups improved. Noncardiac chest pain was not significantly different.

The studied formula used seven separate ingredients. The hospital pharmacy supplied them. They had to be boiled down into 400 mL of decoction, then taken in two daily servings.

Outside a hospital pharmacy, that means finding and paying for seven specialty ingredients, cooking a fresh decoction, and doing it again the next day.

Powerful tradition. Impractical routine.

Dr. Lyda Kermani, DACM, LAc, created Liao as a focused modern interpretation of Xuanfu Daizhe Tang.

She selected three core herbs that carry the traditional formula's central direction:

Liao concentrates all three at a 10:1 ratio in one measured liquid.

No seven-herb shopping list. No daily boiling. No pot of bitter decoction.

Just one measured 2 mL spoon before breakfast and one before dinner, stirred into warm water.

Each bottle concentrates 2.6 pounds of raw herbs into 120 mL. It is doctor formulated, tested for purity, and made for real daily life.

Your PPI has a job. Liao has a different one. You do not have to choose.

A PPI reduces acid production. Liao is used to build strength in the digestive system, inspired by the traditional idea of helping digestion move in the right direction.

Used in the same routine, you keep the acid control you rely on while adding support for the digestive pattern underneath.

If you already take a PPI, keep taking it as directed. Add Liao alongside your existing routine and leave approximately 30 to 60 minutes between Liao and your medication.

The goal is not to fight the routine that helps you today. It is to give your digestion another kind of support at the same time.

Before launch, 30 people followed a 90-day protocol using Liao alongside the lifestyle guidance in Dr. Lyda Kermani's TCM Digestion Guide.

Two people with the same burning can need opposite things. One is running hot. Another is cold and depleted, and the cooling advice everyone repeats makes it worse. A third is driven by stress and never really had a food problem at all.

In Chinese medicine that difference has a name. It is called your pattern, and working out which one you have is the first thing a practitioner does before recommending anything.

So we built the quiz that asks what a practitioner would ask. Eight questions, about a minute. What your reflux feels like, when it hits, and whether warmth makes it better or worse. Then the most Chinese medicine question of all: find a mirror, stick out your tongue, and match it to a picture. Practitioners have read tongues for two thousand years.

At the end you get:

Recurring discomfort is a pattern, not one isolated meal. In Chinese medicine, patterns are supported through consistency.

Liao's internal protocol ran for 90 days. One bottle covers 30 days. The 90-Day Plan gives you three bottles so you can live the complete routine and judge it honestly alongside the routine you already have.