Li Zhong Wan, Center-Regulating Pill

NPN 80093581

【Combination】

【Method】
As a pill: pound and sift these four medicinals, mix with honey to make pills as big as an egg yolk (9g). To take, break up and mix a pill with boiled water and drink when it is still warm. Take three or four doses during the day, and two at night. If the stomach is not warm after taking the pill, increase the dosage up to three or four pills. It should be noted that the therapeutic effect of the pills is weaker than that of a decoction. As a decoction: cut the four medicinals into pieces. Add to eight sheng of water and boil down until three sheng of water remains. Take the warm decoction three times a day. Eat one sheng of hot porridge a little while after drinking the decoction. If the body feels hot at this point, the clothes should be kept on. (Modern use: grind these four medicinals into fine powder, mix with honey to make pills about 9g, take one pill each time with warm water, two or three times a day. Or use as decoction, adjust the medicinal dosages according to their original proportions.)

【Action】
Warms the center and dispels cold, boosts qi and supplements the spleen.

【Indication】
This formula is indicated for:
1. Deficiency-cold of the spleen and stomach. The symptoms include chronic stomachache which can be reduced by warmth and pressure, vomiting, loose stool, distention and fullness of the stomach, poor appetite, fear of cold, cold limbs, a pale tongue with a white coating, and a deep, thin pulse or deep, slow and feeble pulse.
2. Blood loss due to spleen yang deficiency. The symptoms are bloody stool, spitting of blood, nose bleeding, and menstrual flooding and spotting with pale and thin blood.
3. Chest bi syndrome due to deficiency-cold of the spleen and stomach. Besides the obstruction of qi in the chest, other symptoms include stuffiness and fullness in the chest and stomach, qi counter-flowing to the chest, profuse saliva after the illness, or chronic infantile convulsions.