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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">liu jun zi tang</name>
    <name type="english">Six Gentelmen Decoction with Aucklandia and Amomum</name>
  </names>
  <category>Tonfiy the Qi</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Tonifies Qi and strengthens the Spleen and Stomach</summary>
      <indication>Qi deficiency of the Stomach, or of the Spleen and Stomach</indication>
      <indication>Sallow face, pale or rolled lips, no appetite, tired heavy limbs and thin muscles</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue and lethargy, reluctance to talk, a weak soft voice and shortness of breath</indication>
      <indication>Weak abdomen that distends after meals; loose stools or diarrhoea, possibly gurgling intestines</indication>
      <indication>Possibly cold limbs, plentiful clear urine, bedwetting or bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Wei (atrophy) disorder from Spleen and Stomach Qi deficiency, with weak arm and leg muscles and a stiff tongue</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale and puffy, possibly tooth-marked, with a greasy white coat; pulse soft and weak</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Transforms Phlegm and dries Damp</summary>
      <indication>Phlegm-Damp retained with Spleen and Stomach Qi deficiency</indication>
      <indication>Cough with plenty of thin white sputum and laboured breathing</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Moves Qi, harmonises the Middle Jiao and stops vomiting</summary>
      <indication>Nausea, vomiting and sour regurgitation</indication>
      <indication>Distension and a stifling feeling in the chest and epigastrium</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Indigestion</indication>
      <indication>Chronic gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Gastric or duodenal ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Chronic gastroenteritis</indication>
      <indication>Gastroptosis</indication>
      <indication>Malnutrition with weight loss</indication>
      <indication>Anemia</indication>
      <indication>Obesity</indication>
      <indication>Amenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Cough</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain</indication>
      <indication>Nausea</indication>
      <indication>Vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Chronic bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Liver cancer pain</indication>
      <indication>Depression</indication>
      <indication>Myasthenia gravis</indication>
      <indication>Multiple sclerosis</indication>
      <indication>Polyneuritis</indication>
      <indication>Guillain-Barre disease</indication>
      <indication>Acute myelitis</indication>
      <indication>Progressive muscular dystrophy</indication>
      <indication>Aftereffects of polio</indication>
      <indication>Hay fever</indication>
      <indication>Chronic kidney failure</indication>
      <indication>Asthma</indication>
      <indication>COPD</indication>
      <indication>AIDS/HIV</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal fullness and distention</indication>
      <indication>Neurasthenia</indication>
      <indication>Otitis media</indication>
      <indication>Meniere&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Chronic hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Hypotension</indication>
      <indication>Weakness</indication>
      <indication>Leukorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Lung cancer</indication>
      <indication>Urinary tract infection</indication>
      <indication>Constipation</indication>
      <indication>Otorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Ear pain</indication>
      <indication>Deafness</indication>
      <indication>Wei (atrophy) syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Toxemia during pregnancy</indication>
      <indication>Gastric cancer</indication>
      <indication>Chronic peritonitis</indication>
      <indication>Rickets</indication>
      <indication>Nervous exhaustion</indication>
      <indication>Gastralgia</indication>
      <indication>Acid reflux</indication>
      <indication>Acne</indication>
      <indication>Irritable bowel syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Morning sickness</indication>
      <indication>Stomatitis</indication>
      <indication>Support during chemotherapy</indication>
      <indication>Stress</indication>
      <indication>Enteritis</indication>
      <indication>Acute infectious multiple neuritis</indication>
      <indication>Progressive myodystrophy</indication>
      <indication>Hysterical paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Periodic paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Facial paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Polyuria</indication>
      <indication>Emphysema</indication>
      <indication>Menopause</indication>
      <indication>Nausea and vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Tinnitus</indication>
      <indication>Otitis externa</indication>
      <indication>Vertigo</indication>
      <indication>Anorexia</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Yawning</indication>
      <indication>Spontaneous perspiration</indication>
      <indication>Osteoarthritis</indication>
      <indication>Dyspnea</indication>
      <indication>Edema during pregnancy</indication>
      <indication>Cough during pregnancy</indication>
      <indication>Breast cancer chemotherapy</indication>
      <indication>AIDS/HIV-related cough and asthma</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>ren shen</herb>
    <herb>bai zhu</herb>
    <herb>fu ling</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
    <herb>chen pi</herb>
    <herb>ban xia</herb>
  </constituents>
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