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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">gan jiang ren shen ban xia wan</name>
    <name type="english">Ginger, Ginseng, and Pinella Pill</name>
  </names>
  <category>Direct Rebellious Qi Downward</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms and tonifies the Middle Jiao</summary>
      <indication>Deficiency Cold of the Spleen and Stomach, or mild Cold in the Stomach</indication>
      <indication>Constant, mild epigastric pain that feels better with warmth and pressure</indication>
      <indication>Poor appetite, fullness and pain of the abdomen after meals, and loose stools</indication>
      <indication>Cold limbs, tiredness and weakness with a pale or sallow, dull complexion</indication>
      <indication>Frequent urination, or scanty urination with edema in some cases</indication>
      <indication>Possibly a copious, clear, watery vaginal discharge</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale with a white greasy coat; pulse deep, thready and without force</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Descends rebellious Qi and stops vomiting</summary>
      <indication>Nausea, vomiting and hiccups</indication>
      <indication>Excess saliva</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Morning sickness (gravid hyperemesis)</indication>
      <indication>Severe unremitting vomiting and nausea</indication>
      <indication>Vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Vomiting in older patients</indication>
      <indication>Nausea</indication>
      <indication>Hiccups</indication>
      <indication>Gastralgia</indication>
      <indication>Gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Gastroenteritis</indication>
      <indication>Gastroptosis</indication>
      <indication>Gastrectasis</indication>
      <indication>Indigestion</indication>
      <indication>Anorexia</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain</indication>
      <indication>Enteritis</indication>
      <indication>Dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Irritable bowel syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Rectal prolapse</indication>
      <indication>Cirrhosis of the Liver</indication>
      <indication>Edema</indication>
      <indication>Oliguria</indication>
      <indication>Polyuria</indication>
      <indication>Vaginal discharge</indication>
      <indication>Anemia</indication>
      <indication>Weakness</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>gan jiang</herb>
    <herb>ren shen</herb>
    <herb>ban xia</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
