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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">e jiao ji zi huang tang</name>
    <name type="english">Ass-Hide Gelatin and Egg Yolk Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Extinguish Internal Wind</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Nourishes Yin and Blood</summary>
      <indication>Late stage of a warm-febrile disease that has used up Yin and fluids, leaving the Liver without nourishment</indication>
      <indication>Dry mouth and cracked, dry lips</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Extinguishes internal Wind</summary>
      <indication>Wind stirring from deficient Blood and Yin of the Liver: stiff limbs, twitching and spasm of the muscles, tremor of the hands and feet</indication>
      <indication>Dizziness and vertigo from deficiency-type Wind</indication>
      <indication>Tongue deep red with scant or thin coating; pulse thin and rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Parkinson&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Dizziness and vertigo</indication>
      <indication>After-effects of meningitis or encephalitis</indication>
      <indication>Cerebral embolism</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>e jiao</herb>
    <herb>ji zi huang</herb>
    <herb>sheng di huang</herb>
    <herb>Bai Shao</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
    <herb>gou teng</herb>
    <herb>shi jue ming</herb>
    <herb>mu li</herb>
    <herb>fu shen</herb>
    <herb>luo shi teng</herb>
  </constituents>
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