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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">dang gui jian zhong tang</name>
    <name type="english">Tangkuei Decoction to Construct the Middle</name>
  </names>
  <category>Warm the Middle and Dispel Cold</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms and tonifies the Spleen and Stomach</summary>
      <indication>Weakness and wasting after childbirth</indication>
      <indication>Poor appetite or inability to eat, with a weak abdomen</indication>
      <indication>Pale or lustreless complexion, tiredness and heavy limbs</indication>
      <indication>Short breath, laboured breathing or asthma</indication>
      <indication>Palpitations, fidgeting, irritability and poor sleep</indication>
      <indication>Cold, aching limbs, or at times warm limbs</indication>
      <indication>Possible low-grade fever, heat in the palms, soles and chest, night sweats, and a dry mouth and throat</indication>
      <indication>Nocturnal emissions and frequent urination</indication>
      <indication>Anemia, bleeding, nosebleeds and purpura</indication>
      <indication>Long-standing constipation</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale with a white coat; pulse weak and slow, thin and weak, or thin, wiry and even</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Relieves spasm and pain</summary>
      <indication>Cramping pain from Blood deficiency</indication>
      <indication>Tight, persistent abdominal pain, or spasms that spread to the back and waist</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain that comes and goes and is better for warmth and pressure</indication>
      <indication>Epigastric pain and a vague general discomfort</indication>
      <indication>In children: weak constitution, bedwetting, diarrhea, crying at night, recurrent headache and hernia pain</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Gastric ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Duodenal ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Chronic gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Gastric and intestinal spasm</indication>
      <indication>Inflammatory bowel disease</indication>
      <indication>Peritonitis</indication>
      <indication>Postpartum abdominal pain</indication>
      <indication>Postpartum fever</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain in women</indication>
      <indication>Uterine bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Chronic pelvic inflammatory disease</indication>
      <indication>Endometriosis</indication>
      <indication>Aplastic anemia</indication>
      <indication>Pernicious anemia</indication>
      <indication>Hemolytic jaundice</indication>
      <indication>Purpura</indication>
      <indication>Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura</indication>
      <indication>Leukemia</indication>
      <indication>Chronic hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Hepatitis B</indication>
      <indication>Cholelithiasis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic nephritis</indication>
      <indication>Renal calculi</indication>
      <indication>Tuberculosis of the kidney</indication>
      <indication>Benign prostatic hypertrophy</indication>
      <indication>Frequent urination</indication>
      <indication>Nocturnal emissions</indication>
      <indication>Hernia</indication>
      <indication>Hemorrhoids</indication>
      <indication>Rectal prolapse</indication>
      <indication>Habitual constipation</indication>
      <indication>Hypoglycemia</indication>
      <indication>Hypotension</indication>
      <indication>Autonomic dystonia</indication>
      <indication>Neurasthenia</indication>
      <indication>Neuropalpitations</indication>
      <indication>Depression</indication>
      <indication>Insomnia</indication>
      <indication>Migraines</indication>
      <indication>Sciatica</indication>
      <indication>Lumbago</indication>
      <indication>Lateral epicondylitis</indication>
      <indication>Gangrene</indication>
      <indication>Asthma</indication>
      <indication>Dyspnea</indication>
      <indication>Tonsillitis</indication>
      <indication>Fever of unknown origin</indication>
      <indication>Poor appetite</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Enuresis in children</indication>
      <indication>Constant crying in children</indication>
      <indication>Children weakened by chronic illness</indication>
      <indication>Childhood malnutrition with low-grade fever</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>yi tang</herb>
    <herb>gui zhi</herb>
    <herb>shao yao</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
    <herb>sheng jiang</herb>
    <herb>da zao</herb>
    <herb>dang gui</herb>
  </constituents>
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