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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">du shen tang</name>
    <name type="english">Unaccompanied Ginseng Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Rescue Devastated Yang</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Powerfully tonifies Source Qi and stabilizes collapse</summary>
      <indication>Collapse of Qi, including collapse after heavy loss of blood; an emergency measure</indication>
      <indication>Exhaustion pattern with Phlegm blocking the Heart orifice</indication>
      <indication>Extremely pale face, lethargy, cold limbs, feeble breathing and heavy sweating</indication>
      <indication>Pulse minute and thin, barely perceptible</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Acute severe blood loss</indication>
      <indication>Heart failure</indication>
      <indication>Pulmonary failure</indication>
      <indication>Stroke</indication>
      <indication>Excessive sweating</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>ren shen</herb>
    <herb>da zao</herb>
  </constituents>
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