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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">xiang sha liu jun zi tang</name>
    <name type="english">Nourish the Stomach Decoction with Aucklandia and Amomum</name>
  </names>
  <category>Tonfiy the Qi</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Tonifies Qi and strengthens the Spleen</summary>
      <indication>Deficient Spleen Qi with Phlegm-Damp and pain, or deficient Stomach Qi</indication>
      <indication>Poor appetite, feeling full after very little food, thinness and wasting, sallow complexion and pale lips</indication>
      <indication>Tired, heavy limbs, weak muscles of the arms and legs, lethargy, reluctance to talk and a soft, weak voice</indication>
      <indication>Loose stools or diarrhea, rumbling intestines; possibly bedwetting, copious clear urine, cold limbs or bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Gu syndrome</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Harmonizes the Stomach and regulates Qi</summary>
      <indication>Stomach Cold with nausea, vomiting, belching and sour regurgitation</indication>
      <indication>Fullness of the chest and distention of the epigastrium</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Stops pain</summary>
      <indication>Mild distention or pain of the epigastrium and abdomen, with a soft, weak abdomen</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale and swollen, possibly with tooth marks, and a thin white coat; pulse weak and deficient</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Indigestion</indication>
      <indication>Acute or chronic gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic atrophic gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Gastric or duodenal ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Acute or chronic gastroenteritis</indication>
      <indication>Enteritis</indication>
      <indication>Gastroptosis</indication>
      <indication>Gastric distention and gastrectasis</indication>
      <indication>Gastralgia</indication>
      <indication>Gastric neurosis</indication>
      <indication>Hiatus hernia</indication>
      <indication>Acid reflux</indication>
      <indication>Hiccups</indication>
      <indication>Nausea and vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Pernicious vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Morning sickness</indication>
      <indication>Anorexia</indication>
      <indication>Irritable bowel syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Chronic colitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhea, including after surgery</indication>
      <indication>Constipation</indication>
      <indication>Intestinal tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic peritonitis</indication>
      <indication>Leaky gut syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Giardiasis</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal fullness and distention</indication>
      <indication>Obstruction</indication>
      <indication>Cirrhosis of the liver</indication>
      <indication>Jaundice</indication>
      <indication>Cholecystitis</indication>
      <indication>Liver cancer</indication>
      <indication>Breast cancer, including during chemotherapy</indication>
      <indication>Uterine myoma</indication>
      <indication>Chronic fatigue syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Myalgic encephalomyelitis</indication>
      <indication>Epstein-Barr virus syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue and weakness</indication>
      <indication>Nervous exhaustion</indication>
      <indication>Stress</indication>
      <indication>Emotional instability</indication>
      <indication>Schizophrenia</indication>
      <indication>Somnolence</indication>
      <indication>Narcolepsy</indication>
      <indication>Candidiasis</indication>
      <indication>Hypoglycemia</indication>
      <indication>Food allergies</indication>
      <indication>Hypothyroidism</indication>
      <indication>Obesity</indication>
      <indication>Anemia</indication>
      <indication>Edema</indication>
      <indication>Polyuria</indication>
      <indication>Enuresis</indication>
      <indication>HIV/AIDS</indication>
      <indication>Bronchitis and chronic bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Bronchiectasis</indication>
      <indication>Dyspnea</indication>
      <indication>Stomatitis</indication>
      <indication>Childhood eczema</indication>
      <indication>Urticaria</indication>
      <indication>Rickets</indication>
      <indication>Optic atrophy</indication>
      <indication>Delayed menstruation from Phlegm</indication>
      <indication>Vaginal discharge</indication>
      <indication>Infertility</indication>
      <indication>Restless fetus</indication>
      <indication>Gu syndrome</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>
    <herb>sha ren</herb>
    <herb>mu xiang</herb>
  </constituents>
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