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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">ba zhen tang</name>
    <name type="english">Eight Treasure Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Tonify the Qi and Blood</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Tonifies Qi and Blood</summary>
      <indication>Deficiency of both Qi and Blood, typically after heavy blood loss or a long, draining illness</indication>
      <indication>Liver and Spleen deficiency</indication>
      <indication>Signs of Blood deficiency: pale or sallow complexion, dizziness or light-headedness, vertigo, blurred vision, headache, and palpitations with anxiety that may be constant</indication>
      <indication>Signs of Qi deficiency: tiredness and lassitude, shortness of breath, reluctance to speak, poor appetite or anorexia, and limbs that are weak and tire easily</indication>
      <indication>Thirst, rough dry skin, itching, low body weight or weight loss</indication>
      <indication>Severe chills and fever</indication>
      <indication>Menstruation that is irregular, scanty or pale, and continuous spotting from uterine bleeding</indication>
      <indication>In women, pain along the midline, lower abdominal pain or distension, and low back pain</indication>
      <indication>Abscesses that neither come to a head nor heal</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale with a thin white coat; pulse thin and frail, or large and deficient without strength</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Anemia</indication>
      <indication>Aplastic anemia</indication>
      <indication>Thrombocytopenic purpura</indication>
      <indication>Leukopenia</indication>
      <indication>Hypoglycemia</indication>
      <indication>Hypotension</indication>
      <indication>Circulatory problems</indication>
      <indication>Coronary artery disease</indication>
      <indication>Degenerative changes of circulatory and digestive organs</indication>
      <indication>Malnutrition</indication>
      <indication>Weight loss</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Chronic fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Chronic diseases of all kinds</indication>
      <indication>Weakness during convalescence</indication>
      <indication>Recovery from chronic illness</indication>
      <indication>Recovery after surgery</indication>
      <indication>Recovery after childbirth</indication>
      <indication>Supportive care alongside chemotherapy, including for breast cancer</indication>
      <indication>Chronic hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Cirrhosis of the Liver</indication>
      <indication>Atrophic gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Dysphagia</indication>
      <indication>Anorexia</indication>
      <indication>Constipation</indication>
      <indication>Postpartum constipation</indication>
      <indication>Esophageal cancer</indication>
      <indication>Stomach cancer</indication>
      <indication>Lung cancer</indication>
      <indication>Cervical cancer</indication>
      <indication>Uterine myoma</indication>
      <indication>AIDS/HIV-related abdominal masses</indication>
      <indication>AIDS/HIV/ARC</indication>
      <indication>Metrorrhagia</indication>
      <indication>Metrorrhagia during pregnancy</indication>
      <indication>Vaginal bleeding during pregnancy</indication>
      <indication>Irregular menstruation</indication>
      <indication>Scanty menstruation</indication>
      <indication>Amenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Dysmenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Infertility</indication>
      <indication>Red vaginal discharge</indication>
      <indication>Breast discharge</indication>
      <indication>Lumbago in women</indication>
      <indication>Lower abdominal pain</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain during pregnancy</indication>
      <indication>Irritability during pregnancy</indication>
      <indication>Eclampsia</indication>
      <indication>Breech presentation</indication>
      <indication>Habitual miscarriage</indication>
      <indication>Prevention of miscarriage</indication>
      <indication>Puerperal fever</indication>
      <indication>Insufficient lactation</indication>
      <indication>Non-healing ulcers</indication>
      <indication>Chronic abscesses</indication>
      <indication>Nervous ulcers</indication>
      <indication>Eczema</indication>
      <indication>Dermatitis</indication>
      <indication>Dry skin</indication>
      <indication>Alopecia</indication>
      <indication>Prematurely gray hair</indication>
      <indication>Peripheral neuritis</indication>
      <indication>Paresthesia</indication>
      <indication>Numbness</indication>
      <indication>Parkinson&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Multiple sclerosis</indication>
      <indication>Behcet&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Hyperthyroidism</indication>
      <indication>Sheehan&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Neurasthenia</indication>
      <indication>Anxiety</indication>
      <indication>Forgetfulness</indication>
      <indication>Headache</indication>
      <indication>Dizziness</indication>
      <indication>Vertigo</indication>
      <indication>Meniere&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Tinnitus</indication>
      <indication>Deafness</indication>
      <indication>Blurred vision</indication>
      <indication>Orbital optic neuritis</indication>
      <indication>Corneal ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Excessive tearing on exposure to Wind</indication>
      <indication>Palpitations</indication>
      <indication>Dyspnea</indication>
      <indication>Fever</indication>
      <indication>Night sweats</indication>
      <indication>Spontaneous perspiration</indication>
      <indication>Gingivitis</indication>
      <indication>Periodontitis</indication>
      <indication>Temporomandibular joint syndrome (TMJ)</indication>
      <indication>Stiff neck</indication>
      <indication>Hip pain</indication>
      <indication>Heel pain</indication>
      <indication>Foot pain</indication>
      <indication>Gout</indication>
      <indication>Interstitial cystitis</indication>
      <indication>Strangury</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>ren shen</herb>
    <herb>bai zhu</herb>
    <herb>fu ling</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
    <herb>shu di huang</herb>
    <herb>Bai Shao</herb>
    <herb>dang gui</herb>
    <herb>chuan xiong</herb>
  </constituents>
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