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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">fang ji fu ling tang</name>
    <name type="english">Stephania and Poria Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Promote Urination and leach out dampness</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Augments Qi and unblocks Yang</summary>
      <indication>Skin edema</indication>
      <indication>Body and limbs feel heavy</indication>
      <indication>Fine twitching of the skin and muscles of the limbs</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Promotes urination and reduces edema</summary>
      <indication>Pitting edema, most marked in the limbs</indication>
      <indication>Difficult urination</indication>
      <indication>Tongue normal with a white, slippery coat; pulse floating</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Skin edema</indication>
      <indication>Cardiac edema</indication>
      <indication>Nephritic edema</indication>
      <indication>Nephritis</indication>
      <indication>Oliguria</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>han fang ji</herb>
    <herb>huang qi</herb>
    <herb>gui zhi</herb>
    <herb>fu ling</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
  </constituents>
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