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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">da fang feng tang</name>
    <name type="english">Major Ledebouriella Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Dispels Wind and eliminates Cold-Damp</summary>
      <indication>Wind-Cold-Damp painful obstruction with Liver and Kidney deficiency</indication>
      <indication>Joint pain that moves about, mostly in the wrists, elbows, knees and ankles, with chills and fever</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pink, pale and swollen, or red, with a thin or greasy white coat; pulse floating and tight, deep and thin, deep and weak, or deep, slow and weak</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Tonifies and moves Qi and Blood</summary>
      <indication>Musculoskeletal disorders arising from severe deficiency of Qi and Blood</indication>
      <indication>Dysenteric Wind (Li Feng): legs so sore and weak after dysentery that walking is hard</indication>
      <indication>Hemiplegia, nerve pain, dizziness, tinnitus and a stifling feeling in the chest</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Tonifies Yang and strengthens muscles, sinews and bones</summary>
      <indication>Crane&apos;s knee Wind: one or both knees swollen, enlarged, stiff and painful, with wasting of the muscles above and below and restricted movement or paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Pain and numbness through the legs, with wasting of the leg muscles</indication>
      <indication>Feet that are paralysed, stiff, swollen and painful</indication>
      <indication>Lumbago</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Arthralgia</indication>
      <indication>Arthritis</indication>
      <indication>Rheumatoid arthritis</indication>
      <indication>Gouty arthritis</indication>
      <indication>Fibromyalgia</indication>
      <indication>Knee pain</indication>
      <indication>Lumbago</indication>
      <indication>Neuralgia</indication>
      <indication>Common cold</indication>
      <indication>Fever</indication>
      <indication>Wet beriberi with paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Paralysis due to apoplexy</indication>
      <indication>Paralysis from postpartum weakness</indication>
      <indication>Lower-limb paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Monoplegia</indication>
      <indication>Hemiplegia</indication>
      <indication>Facial paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Myelitis</indication>
      <indication>Myelophthisis</indication>
      <indication>Muscle atrophy</indication>
      <indication>Numbness</indication>
      <indication>Paresthesia</indication>
      <indication>Weakness</indication>
      <indication>Idiopathic edema</indication>
      <indication>Malnutritional edema</indication>
      <indication>Tinnitus</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>chuan xiong</herb>
    <herb>zhi fu zi</herb>
    <herb>shu di huang</herb>
    <herb>bai zhu</herb>
    <herb>fang feng</herb>
    <herb>dang gui</herb>
    <herb>Bai Shao</herb>
    <herb>huang qi</herb>
    <herb>du zhong</herb>
    <herb>qiang huo</herb>
    <herb>ren shen</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
    <herb>huai niu xi</herb>
  </constituents>
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