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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">da qin jiao tang</name>
    <name type="english">Major Gentiana Qingjiao Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Dispels Wind and dredges the channels</summary>
      <indication>Wind-stroke at an early or middle stage, affecting the channels</indication>
      <indication>Mouth and eyes pulled to one side</indication>
      <indication>Hemiplegia or paralysis of the limbs, with rigid or spasming limbs and inability to walk</indication>
      <indication>Stiff tongue with difficulty swallowing</indication>
      <indication>Numbness of the skin or the whole body, tingling, and loss of feeling in the hands and feet</indication>
      <indication>Also usable when Wind, Cold, Damp and Heat are all severe</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat</summary>
      <indication>Wind-Heat painful obstruction, or obstruction where Wind predominates, with aching joints and pain that moves from joint to joint</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Nourishes and invigorates the Blood</summary>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Harmonizes the Ying and Wei and moves Qi</summary>
      <indication>Fever and chills with dislike of cold, which can look like a common cold accompanying the other signs</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pink or red with a white or thin yellow coat; pulse floating, floating and wiry, floating and tight, or wiry and thin</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Apoplexy</indication>
      <indication>Stroke</indication>
      <indication>Thrombotic stroke</indication>
      <indication>Cerebral hemorrhage</indication>
      <indication>Cerebral embolism</indication>
      <indication>Hemiplegia</indication>
      <indication>Aphasia</indication>
      <indication>Bell&apos;s palsy</indication>
      <indication>Facial paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Dysphagia</indication>
      <indication>Rheumatism</indication>
      <indication>Arthritis</indication>
      <indication>Rheumatoid arthritis</indication>
      <indication>Rheumatic arthritis</indication>
      <indication>Fibromyalgia</indication>
      <indication>Polymyositis</indication>
      <indication>Muscle atrophy</indication>
      <indication>Multiple neuritis</indication>
      <indication>Numbness</indication>
      <indication>Paresthesia</indication>
      <indication>Sjogren&apos;s syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Fever</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>qin jiao</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
    <herb>chuan xiong</herb>
    <herb>dang gui</herb>
    <herb>Bai Shao</herb>
    <herb>xi xin</herb>
    <herb>qiang huo</herb>
    <herb>fang feng</herb>
    <herb>huang qin</herb>
    <herb>shi gao</herb>
    <herb>bai zhi</herb>
    <herb>bai zhu</herb>
    <herb>sheng di huang</herb>
    <herb>shu di huang</herb>
    <herb>fu ling</herb>
    <herb>du huo</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
