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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">wen pi tang</name>
    <name type="english">Warm the Spleen Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Warm Yang and Guide out Accumulation</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms and tonifies Spleen Yang</summary>
      <indication>Abdominal pain that warmth relieves, with hardness in the epigastrium and cold hands and feet</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale with a white coat; pulse deep and wiry</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Purges Cold accumulation</summary>
      <indication>Cold accumulating in the Intestines on a background of Spleen Yang deficiency</indication>
      <indication>Constipation; or long-standing diarrhea, or red-and-white dysentery with pus and blood in the stool</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Chronic constipation</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Colitis</indication>
      <indication>Ulcerative colitis</indication>
      <indication>Irritable bowel syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Chronic bacillary dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Amoebic dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Intestinal tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Intestinal adhesions</indication>
      <indication>Intestinal obstruction</indication>
      <indication>Biliary ascariasis</indication>
      <indication>Gastrolithiasis</indication>
      <indication>Peptic ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain</indication>
      <indication>Chronic glomerulonephritis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic renal failure</indication>
      <indication>Uremia following renal disease</indication>
      <indication>Oliguria</indication>
      <indication>Postpartum pain</indication>
      <indication>Dysmenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Endometriosis</indication>
      <indication>Infertility</indication>
      <indication>Raynaud&apos;s disease</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>da huang</herb>
    <herb>ren shen</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
    <herb>gan jiang</herb>
    <herb>zhi fu zi</herb>
  </constituents>
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