Effectiveness and action of Gui Fu Lizhong Pill (桂附理中丸)

Gui Fu Lizhong Pill has the effect of warming the middle and strengthening the spleen, tonifying the kidney and assisting yang, and has the ability to treat diseases such as spleen and stomach deficiency and kidney yang weakness. Gui Fu Lizhong Pill is mainly composed of Atractylodes macrocephala, Radix et Rhizoma Polygoni Multiflori, Rhizoma Cinnamomum Cassiae, Ginger, Radix et Rhizoma Polygoni Multiflori, and other traditional Chinese medicines, and has the effect of warming the middle part of the body to strengthen the spleen, tonifying the kidneys and assisting the yang, and it can be used clinically for treating the symptoms of coldness in the spleen and stomach, kidney-yang weakness such as vomiting and diarrhea, cold pain in the epigastric region (the stomach and the epigastric region feel cold and painful), and coldness of the extremities (the limbs are ice-cold, or even cold up to the elbows and above the knees). When taking the medicine, you need to take it with warm boiled water or ginger soup. The adverse reactions of Gui Fu Lizhong Pill are not clear, pregnant women should not take it, and those who are allergic to the ingredients of the drug are forbidden to take it. Gui Fu Lizhong Pill needs to be used under the diagnosis of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, and should not be used blindly on its own, so as not to cause damage.