ding yu li zhong tang

Clove and Evodia Decoction to Regulate the Middle

About ding yu li zhong tang

Ding Yu Li Zhong Tang, Clove and Evodia Decoction to Regulate the Middle, adds Ding Xiang and Wu Zhu Yu to the Li Zhong Wan base. The catalogue classes it among the formulas that warm the Middle and dispel Cold.

Ingredients

HerbAmount
gan jiang9 g
ren shen9 g
bai zhu9 g
zhi gan cao9 g
ding xiang—
wu zhu yu—

Actions and indications

Warms the Middle Jiao and dispels Cold

  • Cold in the Stomach in children
  • Watery diarrhea with nausea and vomiting and no thirst
  • Abdominal or epigastric pain and fullness that likes pressure
  • Cold limbs and aversion to cold; fullness and pain in the chest, with flank pain shooting toward the Heart
  • Hard focal distention below the Heart, with too much foamy saliva or drooling
  • Possibly headache with fever and body aches

Strengthens the Spleen and Stomach and tonifies Qi

  • Poor appetite and weak digestion, pale face, tiredness, lassitude, shortness of breath and emaciation
  • Frequent urination, or scanty urine with oedema; insomnia
  • Chronic bleeding of pale blood: nosebleed, vomiting or coughing up blood, blood in the stool, rectal or uterine bleeding, or heavy periods
  • Tongue pale, possibly moist, with a white coat or none; pulse deep, weak and slow, deep and thin, or large and weak

Modern uses

  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Anorexia
  • Weakness
  • Abdominal pain
  • Edema
  • Blood in the stool
  • Hematemesis
  • Dyspnea

Symptoms

Cautions

Names

Pinyinding yu li zhong tang
English NameClove and Evodia Decoction to Regulate the Middle

Classification

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