Gui+Pi+Tang+(Restore+the+Spleen+Decoction)

=Gui Pi Tang (Restore the Spleen Decoction)=
 * Category:** Tonify [Blood deficiency not nourishing the heart]
 * Preparation:** Decoct with water.
 * Function:** Augments the Qi, tonifies the blood, strengthens the Spleen, nourishes the Heart
 * Indications:** Forgetfullness, palpitations (with or without anxiety), insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep, anxiety and phobia, feverishness, withdrawl, reduced appetite, pallid and wan complexion, pale tongue w/ thin white coat, thin frail pulse. Chronic bleeding syndromes may be a part of the presentation. Women may experience early periods with copious pale blood or prolonged, almost continuous periods with little flow
 * Clinical Applications:** Neurastenia, personality disorders, post concussion syndrome, myasthenia gravis, congestive heart disease, supraventricular tachycardia, anemia (esp. from chronic disease), thrombocytopenic or allergic purpura, cervicitis, functional uterine bleeding, nervous exhaustion, peptic ulcers, nonspecific colitis, depression, anxiety, insomnia, addiction, hypertension, meniere's disease, diabetes
 * Contraindications:** internal heat

**Ingredients:**
Ren Shen (3-6g.) Huang Qi (9-12g.) Bai Zhu (9-12g.) Fu Ling (9-12g.) Suan Zao Ren (9-12g.) Long Yan Rou (6-9g.) Mu Xiang (3-6g.) Zhi Gan Cao (3-6g.) Dang Gui (6-9g.) Zhi Yuan Zhi (3-6g.)

**Analysis:**
//Chief:// Si Jun Zi Tang (Ren Shen, Huang Qi, Bai Zhu, Zhi Gan Cao): - Tonify Spleen Qi, generate blood

//Deputy:// Long Yan Rou: tonifies blood, calms spirit Dang Gui: tonifies and moves blood, regulates menses Fu Ling (or Fu Shen), Suan Zao Ren: calm spirit Zhi Yuan Zhi: move heart Qi and calm spirit

//Assistant:// Mu Xiang: regulates Qi and revives Spleen

//Envoy:// Sheng Jiang, Da Zao: harmonizes Ying and Wei, tonifies middle Jiao

**5 Element Perspective (Thea Elijah):**
Yuan Zhi: About HT-KI connection, clearing the obscuring between the two. Both I am completely unique & I am everybody, we are all the same. union between unique jing design & the common divinity with everyone else. Phlegm makes confusion, unclarity, uncomfort in chest w/ confusion about who you are & what you really want wen you don't really want to know wat is under there. Herb for really stupid mistakes, freudian slips, feeling that when god made me they made a mistake, flawed by design. Scrubs away the gunk, opens perception so they can look & see it isn't that bad
 * 4 gentlemen: recieve, mix & propose. Balance & take in in a way that is fruitful. Balanced ecology, fiting into this planet, making ourselves at home. Recieving nourishment.**
 * 6 gentlemen: dependence**
 * Mu Xiang:stomach small intestine, dash of galbladder. very "fu" herb. Akin to ST-41 - SI within ST, a tight corner to get around. tenesmus**
 * whining as a sound of nausea on the spirit level. Vetching sound (whining + pain, like a childs cry) is stagnation in the SI, labyrinthian ways out of things, excuse after complex excuse. Huge mental effort to make excuses. Lesson: sometimes its painful to learn to move forward. peristalsis/abdominal labor.**
 * Thought process is not feeding the heart**
 * Huang Qi: upward, inquisitive (appetite), engaging, makes life interesting vs. Ren Shen which will stably take in but more passive and zen**
 * Dang Gui: pink suede velvet, soft, cyclic easy movement, I am the blood - the world within, movement w/ no goal - flowing with life, push-hands herb - yield & return, become a more forgiving medium**
 * Suan Zao Ren: Blissful, the experience of love as within your own heart, your inner friend with you to support and you can feel not lonely, wth the beloved at all times**
 * Long Yan Rou: Euphoric but "like chasing butterflies forever" - chasing joy, wanting to connect, shen is extending outside, also a bit of Lung yin to pull back in & relive the love is within. Brings the mind back home.**