Formulas that warm the interior
Li zhong wan
Regulate the Middle Pill
- Chinese name
- 理中丸
- Group
- Formulas that warm the interior
- English name
- Ginseng and Ginger Combination
- Basic formula
- ✓
Warms and strengthens the yang of spleen and stomach and restarts digestion.
Indications
For deficiency with watery diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting, no particular thirst, poor appetite and abdominal pain. When the spleen yang is damaged, the clear yang cannot rise (diarrhoea); when the stomach no longer lets the turbid descend, nausea and vomiting follow.
Ingredients
| Ingredients | Amount |
|---|---|
| Dried ginger (gan jiang) | 9 g |
| Ginseng (ren shen) | 9 g |
| Bai zhu (white atractylodes) | 9 g |
| Honey-fried licorice (zhi gan cao) | 9 g |
- Tongue
- pale with a white coating
- Pulse
- deep and thin
Variations
- With 6 g cinnamon bark and/or 6 g aconite added it becomes fu zi li zhong wan: stronger and warmer.
Note
Grind into a powder, stir into warmed (not burnt) honey to a firm dough and roll balls the size of half a lime; take two or three a day before meals, often with rice porridge. Except in acute complaints, twice as much dang shen can replace the ginseng. According to the book, especially suitable for vegetarians who have weakened their spleen yang by eating much cold, raw food.