[Efficacy]

Strengthen the spleen and stomach and promote yang qi.

[Indications]

spleen-stomach weakness, laziness and sleepiness, unable to retract the limbs, when the mood is dryness, dampness-heat, loss of weight, weight loss, dry mouth and tongue, fluid retention, tasteless food, irregular stools, frequent urination, no desire for fluid retention Inability to eat or digest food, lung disease, aversion to cold, miserable and unhappy, complexion evil but not gorgeous.

This recipe is a flavored version of Six Gentlemen Decoction. Six Gentlemen Decoction is mainly toning qi, invigorating spleen and drying dampness; adding Astragalus Root to strengthen replenishing qi and consolidating exterior makes it difficult for external evil to invade; Notopterygium, Pubescent Angelica, Saposhnikovia Root, Bupleurum, remove exterior pathogens and promote clear yang energy, yang Coptis Rhizome clearing heat and draining dampness, Peony Root is sour and sweet to restrain yin to prevent excessive damage to yin from pungent and warm drugs.

[Key points of syndrome differentiation]

1. When you are tired, you like to lie down.
2. anorexia.
3. Pains due to weight loss.
4. Poor complexion.
5. Irregular stool.

[Addition and subtraction]

1. anorexia: Add hawthorn fruit, Germinated Barley, Medicated Leaven.
2. For worse dampness-heat: add Skullcap Root, Gardenia, Areca Seed.
3. Abdominal distension and fullness: Add Cardamon Fruit, Villous Amomum Fruit, Magnolia Bark.
4. jaundice: Add Virgate Wormwood, Canton Love-pea Vine.

[Modern application]

Gastrointestinal common cold, chronic gastritis, gastrointestinal ulcer, chronic gastroenteritis, inappetence, chronic hepatitis, diarrhea, urticaria measles, vomiting, hiccup.