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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">di tan tang</name>
    <name type="english">Scour Phlegm Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Scour Phlegm and Open Orifices</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Scours out Phlegm and opens the sensory orifices</summary>
      <indication>Wind-Phlegm misting the Heart orifices on a background of Qi deficiency</indication>
      <indication>Phlegm blocking the Heart orifice, Yin (Cold) type of closed disorder</indication>
      <indication>After Wind-stroke: a stiff tongue and inability to speak, or slurred speech</indication>
      <indication>Sudden collapse with loss of consciousness, and convulsions</indication>
      <indication>Spitting saliva, and a lot of Phlegm, sometimes rattling in the throat</indication>
      <indication>Cough with sputum, dizziness and a stifling feeling in the chest</indication>
      <indication>Screaming, a hot temper, irritability and poor sleep</indication>
      <indication>Bitter taste and a dry pharynx</indication>
      <indication>Scanty, dark urine and constipation</indication>
      <indication>Tongue stiff, pink, with a greasy white coat; pulse deep, slippery and even</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Tonifies Qi</summary>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Cerebrovascular accident</indication>
      <indication>Stroke after-effects, including motor aphasia or dysarthria, heavy secretions and dizziness</indication>
      <indication>Motor aphasia</indication>
      <indication>Hemiplegia</indication>
      <indication>Facial paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Seizure disorder</indication>
      <indication>Multiple sclerosis</indication>
      <indication>Numbness</indication>
      <indication>Paresthesia</indication>
      <indication>Cervical spondylosis</indication>
      <indication>Low back pain</indication>
      <indication>Hysteria</indication>
      <indication>Narcolepsy</indication>
      <indication>Chronic fatigue syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Tinnitus</indication>
      <indication>Bronchial asthma</indication>
      <indication>Acute and chronic bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Bronchiectasis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease</indication>
      <indication>Hypoglycemia</indication>
      <indication>Obesity</indication>
      <indication>Constipation</indication>
      <indication>Candidiasis</indication>
      <indication>Uterine fibroids</indication>
      <indication>AIDS</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>ban xia</herb>
    <herb>ju hong</herb>
    <herb>fu ling</herb>
    <herb>zhi shi</herb>
    <herb>zhu ru</herb>
    <herb>dan nan xing</herb>
    <herb>shi chang pu</herb>
    <herb>ren shen</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
