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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">ding yu li zhong tang</name>
    <name type="english">Clove and Evodia Decoction to Regulate the Middle</name>
  </names>
  <category>Warm the Middle and Dispel Cold</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms the Middle Jiao and dispels Cold</summary>
      <indication>Cold in the Stomach in children</indication>
      <indication>Watery diarrhea with nausea and vomiting and no thirst</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal or epigastric pain and fullness that likes pressure</indication>
      <indication>Cold limbs and aversion to cold; fullness and pain in the chest, with flank pain shooting toward the Heart</indication>
      <indication>Hard focal distention below the Heart, with too much foamy saliva or drooling</indication>
      <indication>Possibly headache with fever and body aches</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Strengthens the Spleen and Stomach and tonifies Qi</summary>
      <indication>Poor appetite and weak digestion, pale face, tiredness, lassitude, shortness of breath and emaciation</indication>
      <indication>Frequent urination, or scanty urine with oedema; insomnia</indication>
      <indication>Chronic bleeding of pale blood: nosebleed, vomiting or coughing up blood, blood in the stool, rectal or uterine bleeding, or heavy periods</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale, possibly moist, with a white coat or none; pulse deep, weak and slow, deep and thin, or large and weak</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Nausea and vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Anorexia</indication>
      <indication>Weakness</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain</indication>
      <indication>Edema</indication>
      <indication>Blood in the stool</indication>
      <indication>Hematemesis</indication>
      <indication>Dyspnea</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>gan jiang</herb>
    <herb>ren shen</herb>
    <herb>bai zhu</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
    <herb>ding xiang</herb>
    <herb>wu zhu yu</herb>
  </constituents>
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