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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">xiao jian zhong tang</name>
    <name type="english">Minon Construct and Middle Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Warm the Middle and Dispel Cold</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms and tonifies the Middle Jiao</summary>
      <indication>Deficiency Cold of the Spleen and Stomach (Middle Yang)</indication>
      <indication>Cramping pain of the epigastrium or abdomen that comes and goes, eased by warmth, pressure and often by eating</indication>
      <indication>Poor appetite, lusterless complexion, tired, cold and aching limbs, and general unease</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Replenishes Qi, harmonizes Yin and Yang and relieves spasmodic pain</summary>
      <indication>Consumptive illness from deficiency of both Yin and Yang, or after high fever</indication>
      <indication>Palpitations, restlessness and irritability, insomnia, possibly low-grade fever, dry mouth and throat</indication>
      <indication>Heat in the palms, soles and chest, night sweats, nosebleeds and seminal emission</indication>
      <indication>Blood too deficient to nourish the Heart</indication>
      <indication>Frequent or scanty urination, long-standing constipation, purpura and asthma</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale with a thin white coat; pulse thin and wiry, or thin and weak</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Strengthens the constitution in children</summary>
      <indication>Weak, sickly children with bedwetting, night crying, diarrhea, habitual headache or hernia pain</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Chronic gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Gastric and duodenal ulcers</indication>
      <indication>Gastric and intestinal spasm</indication>
      <indication>Gastroenteritis</indication>
      <indication>Enteritis</indication>
      <indication>Gastrectasis</indication>
      <indication>Gastroptosis</indication>
      <indication>Indigestion</indication>
      <indication>Inflammatory bowel disease</indication>
      <indication>Irritable bowel syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Chronic and habitual constipation</indication>
      <indication>Rectal prolapse</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain and abdominal cold</indication>
      <indication>Nausea and vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Anorexia</indication>
      <indication>Chronic hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Hepatitis B</indication>
      <indication>Cirrhosis of the liver</indication>
      <indication>Jaundice</indication>
      <indication>Hemolytic jaundice</indication>
      <indication>Cholelithiasis</indication>
      <indication>Cholecystitis</indication>
      <indication>Pernicious anemia</indication>
      <indication>Aplastic anemia</indication>
      <indication>Leukemia</indication>
      <indication>Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura</indication>
      <indication>Hypoglycemia</indication>
      <indication>Hypothyroidism</indication>
      <indication>Hypotension</indication>
      <indication>Raynaud&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Chemotherapy for breast cancer</indication>
      <indication>Neurasthenia</indication>
      <indication>Autonomic dystonia</indication>
      <indication>Depression</indication>
      <indication>Insomnia</indication>
      <indication>Palpitations and cardiac neurosis</indication>
      <indication>Migraine and headache</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue and weakness</indication>
      <indication>Chronic nephritis</indication>
      <indication>Edema</indication>
      <indication>Frequent urination</indication>
      <indication>Oliguria</indication>
      <indication>Benign prostatic hypertrophy</indication>
      <indication>Nocturnal emission</indication>
      <indication>Night sweats</indication>
      <indication>Low-grade fever</indication>
      <indication>Fever of unknown origin</indication>
      <indication>Postpartum fever</indication>
      <indication>Postpartum pain</indication>
      <indication>Endometriosis</indication>
      <indication>Infertility</indication>
      <indication>Vaginal discharge</indication>
      <indication>Enuresis in children</indication>
      <indication>Constant crying in children</indication>
      <indication>Malnutrition with low fever in children</indication>
      <indication>Chronic illness and debility in children</indication>
      <indication>Asthma</indication>
      <indication>Tonsillitis</indication>
      <indication>Nosebleeds</indication>
      <indication>Dry skin</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>yi tang</herb>
    <herb>gui zhi</herb>
    <herb>shao yao</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
    <herb>sheng jiang</herb>
    <herb>da zao</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
