dang gui jian zhong tang

Tangkuei Decoction to Construct the Middle

About dang gui jian zhong tang

Dang Gui Jian Zhong Tang, Tangkuei Decoction to Construct the Middle, adds Dang Gui to the Xiao Jian Zhong Tang base. The catalogue classes it among the formulas that warm the Middle and dispel Cold.

Ingredients

HerbAmount
yi tang18 g
gui zhi9 g
shao yao18 g
zhi gan cao6 g
sheng jiang9 g
da zao12 g
dang gui—

Actions and indications

Warms and tonifies the Spleen and Stomach

  • Weakness and wasting after childbirth
  • Poor appetite or inability to eat, with a weak abdomen
  • Pale or lustreless complexion, tiredness and heavy limbs
  • Short breath, laboured breathing or asthma
  • Palpitations, fidgeting, irritability and poor sleep
  • Cold, aching limbs, or at times warm limbs
  • Possible low-grade fever, heat in the palms, soles and chest, night sweats, and a dry mouth and throat
  • Nocturnal emissions and frequent urination
  • Anemia, bleeding, nosebleeds and purpura
  • Long-standing constipation
  • Tongue pale with a white coat; pulse weak and slow, thin and weak, or thin, wiry and even

Relieves spasm and pain

  • Cramping pain from Blood deficiency
  • Tight, persistent abdominal pain, or spasms that spread to the back and waist
  • Abdominal pain that comes and goes and is better for warmth and pressure
  • Epigastric pain and a vague general discomfort
  • In children: weak constitution, bedwetting, diarrhea, crying at night, recurrent headache and hernia pain

Modern uses

  • Gastric ulcer
  • Duodenal ulcer
  • Chronic gastritis
  • Gastric and intestinal spasm
  • Inflammatory bowel disease
  • Peritonitis
  • Postpartum abdominal pain
  • Postpartum fever
  • Abdominal pain in women
  • Uterine bleeding
  • Chronic pelvic inflammatory disease
  • Endometriosis
  • Aplastic anemia
  • Pernicious anemia
  • Hemolytic jaundice
  • Purpura
  • Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
  • Leukemia
  • Chronic hepatitis
  • Hepatitis B
  • Cholelithiasis
  • Chronic nephritis
  • Renal calculi
  • Tuberculosis of the kidney
  • Benign prostatic hypertrophy
  • Frequent urination
  • Nocturnal emissions
  • Hernia
  • Hemorrhoids
  • Rectal prolapse
  • Habitual constipation
  • Hypoglycemia
  • Hypotension
  • Autonomic dystonia
  • Neurasthenia
  • Neuropalpitations
  • Depression
  • Insomnia
  • Migraines
  • Sciatica
  • Lumbago
  • Lateral epicondylitis
  • Gangrene
  • Asthma
  • Dyspnea
  • Tonsillitis
  • Fever of unknown origin
  • Poor appetite
  • Fatigue
  • Enuresis in children
  • Constant crying in children
  • Children weakened by chronic illness
  • Childhood malnutrition with low-grade fever

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Cautions

Names

Pinyindang gui jian zhong tang
English NameTangkuei Decoction to Construct the Middle

Classification

Category
Warm the Middle and Dispel Cold