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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">zhi zhu wan</name>
    <name type="english">Immature Bitter Orange and Atractylodes Macrocephala Pill</name>
  </names>
  <category>Formulas that Reduce Food Stagnation</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Strengthens the Spleen</summary>
      <indication>Spleen Qi deficiency with food and Qi stagnation: a weak Spleen that cannot move food, rather than overeating with strong digestion</indication>
      <indication>Poor appetite, tiredness and a tendency to loose stools</indication>
      <indication>Often seen in convalescence, chronic illness, or elderly and weak patients</indication>
      <indication>Tongue with a white coat, or a greasy yellow coat; pulse deficient, or slippery</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Reduces focal distension and moves food stagnation</summary>
      <indication>Focal distension of the chest, epigastrium and abdomen, often worse after eating, without much pain</indication>
      <indication>Acid regurgitation</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Functional dyspepsia</indication>
      <indication>Obesity</indication>
      <indication>Chronic gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Anorexia</indication>
      <indication>Gastroptosis</indication>
      <indication>Gastroenteritis</indication>
      <indication>Acid reflux</indication>
      <indication>Urticaria</indication>
      <indication>Indigestion</indication>
      <indication>Indigestion in children</indication>
      <indication>Chronic colitis</indication>
      <indication>Peptic ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Cholecystitis</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal fullness and distension</indication>
      <indication>Chronic hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Rectal prolapse</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>bai zhu</herb>
    <herb>zhi shi</herb>
  </constituents>
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