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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">fu zi li zhong wan</name>
    <name type="english">Immature Bitter Orange Pill to Regulate the Middle</name>
  </names>
  <category>Warm the Middle and Dispel Cold</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms Yang and dispels Cold</summary>
      <indication>Deficiency Cold of the Spleen and Stomach: Spleen Yang deficiency, Spleen and Kidney Yang deficiency, Cold in the Stomach or colon, and Tai Yin deficiency with Cold</indication>
      <indication>Severe epigastric and abdominal pain that likes pressure, with a cold body and aversion to cold</indication>
      <indication>Cold limbs that are stiff or rigid; clenched jaw; fainting in some cases</indication>
      <indication>Constipation of the Cold type; spasms of the stomach</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale and perhaps moist, coat white; pulse slow, deep and minute</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Tonifies Qi and strengthens the Spleen</summary>
      <indication>Loose stools, or diarrhea containing undigested food</indication>
      <indication>Reduced appetite and no thirst, with fullness of the epigastrium and abdomen that likes pressure</indication>
      <indication>Nausea and vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Slight sweating</indication>
      <indication>Scanty urine with edema, or else plentiful clear urine</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Acute gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Acute or chronic gastroenteritis</indication>
      <indication>Gastrectasis</indication>
      <indication>Gastric or duodenal ulcers</indication>
      <indication>Chronic peptic ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Gastroptosis (stomach prolapse)</indication>
      <indication>Irritable bowel syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Chronic colitis</indication>
      <indication>Colitis</indication>
      <indication>Ulcerative colitis</indication>
      <indication>Crohn&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Celiac disease</indication>
      <indication>Sudden turmoil disorder, cramping</indication>
      <indication>Cholera</indication>
      <indication>Gastroatonia</indication>
      <indication>Gastralgia</indication>
      <indication>Gastric spasms</indication>
      <indication>Dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Enteritis</indication>
      <indication>Intestinal tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Infantile diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Nausea and vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Nervous vomiting in children</indication>
      <indication>Indigestion</indication>
      <indication>Acid reflux</indication>
      <indication>Dysphagia</indication>
      <indication>Reduced appetite</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal Cold</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal fullness and distention</indication>
      <indication>Constipation (Cold type)</indication>
      <indication>Rectal prolapse</indication>
      <indication>Hemorrhoids</indication>
      <indication>Hemorrhoidal bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Hemafecia</indication>
      <indication>Bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Stomach cancer</indication>
      <indication>Chronic hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Cirrhosis of the Liver</indication>
      <indication>Ascites</indication>
      <indication>Dysmenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Infertility</indication>
      <indication>Vaginal discharge</indication>
      <indication>Endometriosis</indication>
      <indication>Postpartum pain</indication>
      <indication>Menopause</indication>
      <indication>Toxemia during pregnancy</indication>
      <indication>Hypothyroidism</indication>
      <indication>Addison&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Polyuria</indication>
      <indication>Oliguria</indication>
      <indication>Strangury</indication>
      <indication>Prostatic hypertrophy</indication>
      <indication>Chronic prostatitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic glomerulonephritis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic nephritis</indication>
      <indication>Nephrotic syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Edema</indication>
      <indication>Hydrocephalus</indication>
      <indication>Alzheimer&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Forgetfulness</indication>
      <indication>Somnolence</indication>
      <indication>Narcolepsy</indication>
      <indication>Neurasthenia</indication>
      <indication>Chronic fatigue syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Weakness</indication>
      <indication>Tinnitus</indication>
      <indication>Deafness</indication>
      <indication>Otitis media</indication>
      <indication>Vertigo</indication>
      <indication>Dizziness</indication>
      <indication>Hypotension</indication>
      <indication>Low back pain</indication>
      <indication>Anemia</indication>
      <indication>Leukopenia</indication>
      <indication>Thrombocytopenic purpura</indication>
      <indication>Raynaud&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Chronic mouth ulcers from Spleen-Stomach deficiency Cold</indication>
      <indication>Behcet&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>AIDS/HIV</indication>
      <indication>Keratomalacia</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>zhi fu zi</herb>
    <herb>gan jiang</herb>
    <herb>ren shen</herb>
    <herb>bai zhu</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
  </constituents>
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