Decoction of four mild drugs is made up of panax, tuckahoe, Atractylodes macrocephala, prepared RADIX GLYCYRRHIZAE.
The fuction of it is enhancing quantity of energy and improving function of spleen.
Indications: weakness of spleen and stomach, deficiency of vital energy, dyspepsia, inappetence, diarrhea, weakness and fatigue.
Explain: deficiency of vital energy usually means deficiency of spleen vital energy, which is also called deficiency of middle-jiao energy. So when it comes to therapy, we should enhance middle-jiao energy. In this prescription, panax is the mainly drug, tuckahoe and Atractylodes macrocephala can help it to accelerate the movement of spleen and stomach and expel redundant water outside of the body. Prepared RADIX GLYCYRRHIZAE does good to spleen too. And when it is used with panax, it is the basic combination of complementing and enhancing vital energy. Still, it is a drug of mediating other drugs.
