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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">li zhong an hui tang</name>
    <name type="english">Regulate the Middle and Calm Roundworms Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms the Middle Jiao</summary>
      <indication>Deficiency Cold of the Spleen and Stomach with mild, constant epigastric pain eased by warmth and pressure</indication>
      <indication>Poor appetite, fullness and pain of the abdomen after eating, nausea, much saliva and gurgling intestines</indication>
      <indication>Cold limbs, lassitude, weakness and a pale, dull or sallow face</indication>
      <indication>Possible oedema; urine clear and copious, or scanty; possible thin, clear, heavy vaginal discharge</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale with a thin white or greasy white coat; pulse deep, thin and without strength</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Calms roundworms</summary>
      <indication>Roundworms vomited, or passed in very loose, unformed stools</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Roundworms</indication>
      <indication>Ascariasis</indication>
      <indication>Anorexia</indication>
      <indication>Edema</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>ren shen</herb>
    <herb>bai zhu</herb>
    <herb>fu ling</herb>
    <herb>chuan jiao</herb>
    <herb>wu mei</herb>
    <herb>gan jiang</herb>
  </constituents>
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