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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">cong bai qi wei yin</name>
    <name type="english">Scallion Decoction with Seven Ingredients</name>
  </names>
  <category>Formulas that Release Exterior Disorders with Interior Deficiency</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Releases the Exterior</summary>
      <indication>Wind-Cold invading the exterior of someone whose Yin or Blood is already deficient</indication>
      <indication>Headache, fever with mild chills, and body aches</indication>
      <indication>Little or no sweating in spite of the fever</indication>
      <indication>Tongue normal or palish with a thin white coat; pulse floating, or floating and thin</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Nourishes Yin and Blood</summary>
      <indication>Usually follows a long illness or heavy blood loss, such as childbirth, heavy periods or nosebleed</indication>
      <indication>Worn out, with a sallow or pale face and a dry throat or mouth</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Common cold around menstruation or after childbirth</indication>
      <indication>Common cold in pregnancy</indication>
      <indication>Common cold during recovery from surgery or illness</indication>
      <indication>Influenza</indication>
      <indication>Upper respiratory tract infection</indication>
      <indication>Fever</indication>
      <indication>Headache</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>cong bai</herb>
    <herb>ge gen</herb>
    <herb>dan dou chi</herb>
    <herb>sheng jiang</herb>
    <herb>mai men dong</herb>
    <herb>sheng di huang</herb>
  </constituents>
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