bubble_chart Efficacy

Strengthens the stomach and benefits the spleen, eliminates malnutrition and removes stagnation.

bubble_chart Indications

Relieves indigestion, stops diarrhea and vomiting, eliminates infantile malnutrition with accumulation, alleviates abdominal distension and fullness, and stabilizes abdominal pain.

bubble_chart Formula Principles

The ingredients ginseng, poria, atractylodes, and licorice constitute the Four Gentlemen Decoction, which tonifies qi and specifically strengthens the spleen and stomach; hawthorn fruit and Dried Tangerine Peel stimulate appetite and alleviate middle consumptive thirst; lotus seeds strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea; Alisma drains dampness and quenches thirst; Chinese Yam strengthens the spleen and stomach, stops thirst and diarrhea, and also nourishes and fortifies the body.

bubble_chart Pattern Identification

1. watery diarrhea.
2. Poor appetite.
3. Abdominal distension and fullness, abdominal pain.

bubble_chart Formula Modification

1. Loss of appetite: add Germinated Barley, Medicated Leaven.
2. Vomiting stuffiness and fullness: add Immature Orange Fruit, Pineilia.
3. Abdominal pain diarrhea: add Aucklandia Root, Villous Amomum Fruit.
4. Wind-cold vomiting and diarrhea: combine with Minor Bupleurum Decoction.
5. Post-illness recuperation: combine with Jade Screen Powder.

bubble_chart Modern Application

Chronic gastroenteritis, intestinal binding nucleus, loss of appetite, indigestion, infantile malnutrition with accumulation.