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Fu Zi Li Zhong Wan - Aconite Regulate Middle Pills

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Clinical Usage

  • Spleen yang deficiency resulting in coldness of the limbs and/or interior, borborygmus, and possible loose stools or diarrhea.
  • Feeling full even with small amounts of food, bloating, epigastric/abdominal pain, possible decrease in appetite.
  • Vomitting and nausea especially if it occurs shortly after eating.

Clinician Notes

  • Classicly considered contraindicated for pregnancy.
  • Use with caution for patients that present with yin deficiency.
  • Do not use for abdominal pain that occurs with heat signs.
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Fu Zi Li Zhong Wan is in the "Warm the Middle and Dispel Cold" group within the "Warm Interior Cold" category.

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Common Formula Ingredients

Fu Zi Li Zhong Wan is generally comprised of the following 5 ingredients:

Bai Zhu
Bai Zhu
Atractylodes (White) Rhizome
  • Tonifies the spleen, augments qi, dries dampness - diarrhea, fatigue, lack of appetite, vomiting, edema.
  • Stabilizes the exterior and stops sweating - spontaneous sweating due to qi deficiency.
  • Calms the fetus - arising from spleen deficiency.
Bai Zhu is also included in 28 formulas
Fu Zi
Fu Zi
Prepared Aconite Root
  • Restores devastated yang - extreme cold limbs with abundant cold symptoms.
  • Assists heart yang to unblock vessels and improve circulation, tonifies kidney yang to augment fire and avoid loss of the basal yang.
  • Warms fire and assists yang - any problem associated with weak heart, spleen, and/or kidneys.
  • Disperses cold, warms the channels, alleviates pain - wind-damp-cold bi, cold blocking organs, channels, sinews, bones or blood vessels.
Fu Zi is also included in 5 formulas
Gan Jiang
Gan Jiang
Dried Ginger Root
  • Warms the middle and expels cold - warms spleen and stomach both in conditions of excess due to externally contacted cold, as well as cold from deficiency due to yang qi deficiency.
  • Rescues devastated yang, expels interior cold - very weak pulse and cold limbs.
  • Warms the lungs and transforms phlegm - lung cold with thin, watery or white sputum.
  • Warms the channels, stops bleeding - hemorrhage of various types, especially for uterine bleeding (must be due to cold - chronic and pale in color, with cold limbs, soggy pulse).
Gan Jiang is also included in 9 formulas
Ren Shen
Ginseng Root
  • Strongly tonify yuan qi - extreme collapse of qi, shortness of breath, cold limbs, profuse sweating, weak pulse (often used alone for this condition after severe blood loss).
  • Tonify lung qi - wheezing, shortness of breath, w/kidneys failing to grasp the qi.
  • Strengthen the middle warmer - lethargy, no appetite, chronic diarrhea, prolapse of organs, distended chest/abdomen.
  • Generates fluids, stops thirst - xiao ke, damaged fluid due to high dever and profuse sweating.
  • Benefits heart qi, calms the spirit - palpitations, anxiety, insomnia, poor memory, restlessness due to qi and/or blood deficiency.
Ren Shen is also included in 20 formulas
Zhi Gan Cao
Honey Fried Licorice Root
  • This preparation increases the qi tonifying aspects of the heart and spleen along with its general harmonizing function within formulas.  See Gan Cao for complete information.
Zhi Gan Cao is also included in 21 formulas