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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">bu yang huan wu tang</name>
    <name type="english">Tonify The Yang to Restore the Five [ tenths ] Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Invigorate the blood and Dispel Stasis</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Vigorously tonifies Qi</summary>
      <indication>Qi deficiency causing Blood stasis in the channels, in the recovery stage after Wind-stroke</indication>
      <indication>Blood stasis obstructing the channels on a background of deficient Qi and Yang</indication>
      <indication>Wind-Phlegm leading to stagnant Qi and Blood</indication>
      <indication>Wasting (Wei) syndrome from Qi deficiency with Blood stasis</indication>
      <indication>General weakness and cold extremities</indication>
      <indication>Frequent urination, dribbling or incontinence from deficient Qi</indication>
      <indication>Dry stools or constipation, Qi being too weak to move the bowels</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Invigorates the Blood and unblocks the channels</summary>
      <indication>Hemiplegia or one-sided weakness after a stroke, with wasting of the affected limbs</indication>
      <indication>Paralysis, including of the face, with the eyes and mouth pulled to one side</indication>
      <indication>Wasting of the legs</indication>
      <indication>Slurred or laboured speech</indication>
      <indication>Drooling or excess saliva from weak facial muscles</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Promotes movement in the limbs</summary>
      <indication>Tongue normal with a white coat; pulse moderate or normal</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Stroke</indication>
      <indication>Apoplexy</indication>
      <indication>Sequelae of cerebrovascular accident</indication>
      <indication>Post-stroke sequelae</indication>
      <indication>Post-stroke hemiplegia</indication>
      <indication>Ischemic cerebrovascular disorder</indication>
      <indication>Acute obstructive cerebrovascular disease</indication>
      <indication>Cerebrovascular infarction</indication>
      <indication>Cerebral thrombosis</indication>
      <indication>Cerebral arteriosclerosis</indication>
      <indication>Brain trauma</indication>
      <indication>Epilepsy</indication>
      <indication>Aphasia</indication>
      <indication>Poliomyelitis</indication>
      <indication>Sequelae of poliomyelitis</indication>
      <indication>Acute myelitis</indication>
      <indication>Myasthenia gravis</indication>
      <indication>Multiple sclerosis</indication>
      <indication>Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)</indication>
      <indication>Guillain-Barre disease</indication>
      <indication>Acute infectious multiple neuritis</indication>
      <indication>Polyneuritis</indication>
      <indication>Progressive muscular dystrophy</indication>
      <indication>Progressive myodystrophy</indication>
      <indication>Atrophy (Wei) syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Facial paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Bell&apos;s palsy</indication>
      <indication>Hysterical paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Periodic paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Numbness</indication>
      <indication>Paresthesia</indication>
      <indication>Neuralgia</indication>
      <indication>Sciatica</indication>
      <indication>Unilateral pain</indication>
      <indication>Cervical spondylosis</indication>
      <indication>Vascular headache</indication>
      <indication>Neuroses</indication>
      <indication>Hypertension</indication>
      <indication>Coronary artery disease</indication>
      <indication>Cor pulmonale</indication>
      <indication>Thromboangiitis obliterans</indication>
      <indication>Arteriosclerosis obliterans</indication>
      <indication>Thrombophlebitis</indication>
      <indication>Deep vein thrombosis</indication>
      <indication>Varicose veins</indication>
      <indication>Raynaud&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Erythema nodosum</indication>
      <indication>Panniculitis</indication>
      <indication>Diabetes</indication>
      <indication>Chronic nephritis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Benign prostatic hypertrophy</indication>
      <indication>Chronic prostatitis</indication>
      <indication>Frequent urination</indication>
      <indication>Urinary incontinence</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Weakness</indication>
      <indication>Dry skin</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>huang qi</herb>
    <herb>dang gui</herb>
    <herb>chuan xiong</herb>
    <herb>chi shao</herb>
    <herb>tao ren</herb>
    <herb>hong hua</herb>
    <herb>di long</herb>
  </constituents>
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