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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">bai ye tang</name>
    <name type="english">Biota Twig Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Tonify and Stop Bleeding</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms Spleen Yang and the Middle Jiao</summary>
      <indication>Yang deficiency with Cold, so that Spleen Qi cannot keep Blood in the vessels</indication>
      <indication>Cold limbs, a pale face and low energy, with no signs of Heat such as thirst, restlessness or a red tongue</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale with a thin coat; pulse rapid and without force</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Stops bleeding</summary>
      <indication>Vomiting of blood, and by later extension blood in the stool or uterine bleeding, from a cold, deficient pattern</indication>
      <indication>Blood that is pale or watery rather than bright red</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>ce bai ye</herb>
    <herb>gan jiang</herb>
    <herb>ai ye</herb>
  </constituents>
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