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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">dang gui bu xue tang</name>
    <name type="english">Tangkuei Decoction to Tonify the Blood</name>
  </names>
  <category>Tonify the Qi and Blood</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Tonifies Qi to generate Blood</summary>
      <indication>Blood deficiency, often after heavy blood loss, with Qi deficiency giving rise to a floating fever of the deficiency type</indication>
      <indication>Heart Blood deficiency, or Heart and Liver Blood deficiency</indication>
      <indication>Spleen failing to hold the Blood</indication>
      <indication>Fever and headache from loss of blood, including after childbirth</indication>
      <indication>Feeling of heat in the skin and muscles, with dry, hot skin and a flushed face</indication>
      <indication>Thirst with a wish for warm drinks, or no wish to drink</indication>
      <indication>Irritability, restlessness and distress</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue and weakness with a pale or sallow complexion, and slight sweating</indication>
      <indication>Heavy menstrual bleeding or heavy bleeding after labor; irregular periods after childbirth</indication>
      <indication>Looks like excess Heat, but the exhaustion and the pulse show deficiency</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale; pulse large and flooding but empty and forceless on firm pressure, or big and weak</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Promotes healing of sores</summary>
      <indication>Yin-type ulcers and sores that are slow to heal</indication>
      <indication>Abscesses with pus</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Anemia</indication>
      <indication>Leukopenia</indication>
      <indication>Leukemia</indication>
      <indication>Allergic purpura</indication>
      <indication>Thrombocytopenic purpura</indication>
      <indication>Dysfunctional uterine bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Postpartum uterine bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Puerperal fever</indication>
      <indication>Lochioschesis</indication>
      <indication>Postpartum irregular menstruation</indication>
      <indication>Amenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Perimenstrual fever</indication>
      <indication>Insufficient lactation</indication>
      <indication>Sores and ulcers that do not heal</indication>
      <indication>Purulent abscesses</indication>
      <indication>Support during radiotherapy</indication>
      <indication>Arthritis</indication>
      <indication>Osteoarthritis</indication>
      <indication>Heel pain</indication>
      <indication>Numbness</indication>
      <indication>Paresthesia</indication>
      <indication>Scleroderma</indication>
      <indication>Dry skin</indication>
      <indication>Peyronie&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Colitis</indication>
      <indication>Ulcerative colitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Cor pulmonale</indication>
      <indication>Congestive heart failure</indication>
      <indication>Palpitations</indication>
      <indication>Hypertension</indication>
      <indication>Hypotension</indication>
      <indication>Headache</indication>
      <indication>Dizziness</indication>
      <indication>Vertigo</indication>
      <indication>Red eyes</indication>
      <indication>Fever</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Weakness</indication>
      <indication>Anxiety</indication>
      <indication>Insomnia</indication>
      <indication>Forgetfulness</indication>
      <indication>Neurasthenia</indication>
      <indication>Neurosis</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>huang qi</herb>
    <herb>dang gui</herb>
  </constituents>
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