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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">wu zhu yu tang</name>
    <name type="english">Evodia Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Warm the Middle and Dispel Cold</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms and tonifies the Liver, Stomach, Spleen and Kidneys</summary>
      <indication>Deficiency Cold of the Stomach, or of the Stomach and Liver together</indication>
      <indication>Cold attacking the Middle Jiao, and Cold in the Shao Yin or Jue Yin (Liver) channels</indication>
      <indication>Cold, painful epigastrium and abdomen, perhaps with focal distention below the heart</indication>
      <indication>Liking for warmth, symptoms worse with exposure to cold, and tiredness</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale with a white, slippery coat; pulse slow and weak, deep, slow and thin, or wiry and slow</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Directs rebellious Qi downward and stops vomiting</summary>
      <indication>Vomiting straight after eating, or vomiting clear fluid</indication>
      <indication>Dry retching or spitting of clear, frothy fluid together with a severe headache at the vertex, sometimes spreading to the eyes</indication>
      <indication>Long-standing headache</indication>
      <indication>Sour regurgitation, belching and a vague gnawing hunger</indication>
      <indication>Fullness and distention through the chest and diaphragm</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms Shao Yin Cold with reversal</summary>
      <indication>Cold hands and feet with vomiting and diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Marked agitation, fidgeting and irritability, at worst so severe the patient wishes to die</indication>
      <indication>Pain of the groin and testicles</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Acute gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Acute gastroenteritis</indication>
      <indication>Gastroptosis</indication>
      <indication>Pyloric spasm</indication>
      <indication>Peptic ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Gastralgia</indication>
      <indication>Acid reflux</indication>
      <indication>Hiccup</indication>
      <indication>Indigestion</indication>
      <indication>Nausea and vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Morning sickness</indication>
      <indication>Recalcitrant perimenopausal vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Food poisoning</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Chronic enteritis</indication>
      <indication>Colitis</indication>
      <indication>Ulcerative colitis</indication>
      <indication>Irritable bowel syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Bacillary dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal migraine</indication>
      <indication>Cholecystitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Stomach cancer</indication>
      <indication>Migraine</indication>
      <indication>Neurogenic headache</indication>
      <indication>Parietal headache</indication>
      <indication>Headache from raised intracranial pressure</indication>
      <indication>Trigeminal neuralgia</indication>
      <indication>Meniere&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Vertigo with vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Hypertension</indication>
      <indication>Eclampsia</indication>
      <indication>Eye fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Corneal ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Recalcitrant hordeolum</indication>
      <indication>Conjunctivitis</indication>
      <indication>Glaucoma</indication>
      <indication>Acute congestive glaucoma</indication>
      <indication>Blocked nasolacrimal duct with cold tearing</indication>
      <indication>Renal failure</indication>
      <indication>Chronic nephritis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic glomerulonephritis</indication>
      <indication>Nephrotic syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Edema</indication>
      <indication>Chronic prostatitis</indication>
      <indication>Prostatic hypertrophy</indication>
      <indication>Orchitis</indication>
      <indication>Dysmenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Amenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Infertility</indication>
      <indication>Keshan disease</indication>
      <indication>Thrombocytopenic purpura</indication>
      <indication>Withdrawal from drug addiction</indication>
      <indication>Common cold</indication>
      <indication>Influenza</indication>
      <indication>Cough</indication>
      <indication>Chronic bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Palpitations</indication>
      <indication>Congestive heart failure</indication>
      <indication>Hypothyroidism</indication>
      <indication>Urticaria</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>wu zhu yu</herb>
    <herb>sheng jiang</herb>
    <herb>ren shen</herb>
    <herb>da zao</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
