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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">gui fu li zhong tang</name>
    <name type="chinese">附桂理中丸</name>
    <name type="english">Cinnamon and Prepared Aconite Decoction to Regulate the Middle</name>
  </names>
  <category>Warm the Middle and Dispel Cold</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms and tonifies the Spleen, Stomach and Kidneys</summary>
      <indication>Yang deficiency of the Spleen, Stomach and Kidneys with Cold accumulating inside</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhoea containing undigested food, or loose stools</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhoea at daybreak (cock&apos;s-crow diarrhoea)</indication>
      <indication>Vomiting, reduced appetite and no thirst</indication>
      <indication>Fullness of the epigastrium and abdomen that is eased by pressure</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Dispels Cold and replenishes Yang</summary>
      <indication>Aversion to cold, back pain, and limbs that are cold and stiff</indication>
      <indication>Clenched jaw (trismus)</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale, possibly moist, with a white coat; pulse deep, slow and weak</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Acute or chronic gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Acute or chronic gastroenteritis</indication>
      <indication>Enteritis</indication>
      <indication>Gastric or duodenal ulcers</indication>
      <indication>Gastrectasis</indication>
      <indication>Gastroptosis</indication>
      <indication>Colitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic colitis</indication>
      <indication>Ulcerative colitis</indication>
      <indication>Irritable bowel syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Celiac disease</indication>
      <indication>Cholera</indication>
      <indication>Nausea/vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Anorexia</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal fullness and distention</indication>
      <indication>Polyuria</indication>
      <indication>Senile dementia</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>gan jiang</herb>
    <herb>ren shen</herb>
    <herb>bai zhu</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
    <herb>rou gui</herb>
    <herb>zhi fu zi</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
