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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">bao yuan tang</name>
    <name type="english">Ginseng, Poria, and Atractylodes Macrocephala Powder</name>
  </names>
  <category>Tonfiy the Qi</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Tonifies Qi</summary>
      <indication>Qi deficiency of the Heart, or of the Heart and Lungs together</indication>
      <indication>Tiredness, lethargy, shortness of breath and palpitations</indication>
      <indication>Low-grade fever</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms Yang</summary>
      <indication>Heart Yang deficiency</indication>
      <indication>Weak Spleen and Stomach Qi, with Cold from deficient Yang</indication>
      <indication>Dislike of cold, possibly with chest pain, diarrhea or vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale with a white coat; pulse deep</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Consumption, where the low fever comes from Yang floating up in Qi deficiency</indication>
      <indication>Palpitations</indication>
      <indication>Cardiac arrhythmia</indication>
      <indication>Sick sinus syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Congestive heart failure</indication>
      <indication>Hypotension</indication>
      <indication>Cough</indication>
      <indication>Dyspnea</indication>
      <indication>Asthma</indication>
      <indication>Emphysema</indication>
      <indication>COPD</indication>
      <indication>Common cold</indication>
      <indication>Chronic kidney failure</indication>
      <indication>Thromboangiitis obliterans</indication>
      <indication>Anemia</indication>
      <indication>Thrombocytopenic purpura</indication>
      <indication>Allergic purpura</indication>
      <indication>Lupus erythematosus</indication>
      <indication>AIDS/HIV</indication>
      <indication>Smallpox or chickenpox where a Qi-deficient rash has sunken heads</indication>
      <indication>Hypothyroidism</indication>
      <indication>Neurosis</indication>
      <indication>Neurasthenia</indication>
      <indication>Spontaneous perspiration</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Weakness</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>huang qi</herb>
    <herb>ren shen</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
    <herb>rou gui</herb>
  </constituents>
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