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Middle-Fortifying Decoction

備急千金要方湯劑
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Source
備急千金要方
Composition
Sugar (3 jin), Peony, Pinellia, Fresh Ginger, Licorice (each 3 liang), Cinnamon heart (2 liang), Jujube (50 pieces)
Preparation
The above seven ingredients, cut into pieces (㕮咀), boil with 2 dou of water to obtain 7 sheng, divide into seven doses: five by day and two by night.
Form
湯劑
Traditional indications
Consumptive exhaustion and internal damage, cold and heat, vomiting counterflow, and blood ejection. It is used mainly for gastric ulcer, chronic gastritis, etc., where the condition has become chronic and the abdominal wall is thin and tense, lacking abdominal strength, with retained water in the stomach, and abdominal pain after eating, nausea, or vomiting; it is very effective. Therefore, it can also be applied to gastric ulcer, chronic gastritis, gastric dilation, etc.