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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">fu zi tang</name>
    <name type="english">Prepared Aconite Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Warm and Transform Water and Dampness</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Assists Yang, warms the channels and dispels Cold</summary>
      <indication>Yang deficiency with Cold-Damp inside</indication>
      <indication>Aversion to cold felt most across the back, with cold limbs</indication>
      <indication>Pain and cold in the lower abdomen, with a chilled feeling in the belly</indication>
      <indication>No thirst, sometimes with fever</indication>
      <indication>Also listed for Cold damage at the Tai Yang level and Cold at the Yang Ming level</indication>
      <indication>Tongue normal, coat white and slippery; pulse deep and faint, or forceless, or slow and choppy, or wiry</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Dispels Dampness and relieves pain</summary>
      <indication>Aching of the bones and joints, the muscles, or the whole body</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Painful obstruction</indication>
      <indication>Arthralgia</indication>
      <indication>Arthritis</indication>
      <indication>Rheumatism</indication>
      <indication>Whole body pain</indication>
      <indication>Trigeminal neuralgia</indication>
      <indication>Neuralgia</indication>
      <indication>Bell&apos;s palsy</indication>
      <indication>Facial paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Cervical spine disease</indication>
      <indication>Ankylosing spondylitis</indication>
      <indication>Periarthritis of the shoulder</indication>
      <indication>Lumbar disc disease</indication>
      <indication>Piriformis syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Essential tremor</indication>
      <indication>Monoplegia</indication>
      <indication>Stroke</indication>
      <indication>Migraine</indication>
      <indication>Cluster headache</indication>
      <indication>Cirrhosis of the Liver</indication>
      <indication>Ascites</indication>
      <indication>Peritonitis</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain and distension in pregnancy</indication>
      <indication>Chronic bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Common cold</indication>
      <indication>Influenza</indication>
      <indication>Uterine prolapse</indication>
      <indication>Erectile dysfunction</indication>
      <indication>Chronic nephritis</indication>
      <indication>Nephrotic syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Edema</indication>
      <indication>Cardiac disease</indication>
      <indication>Congestive Heart failure</indication>
      <indication>Stomatitis</indication>
      <indication>Dermatitis</indication>
      <indication>Eczema</indication>
      <indication>Urticaria</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>zhi fu zi</herb>
    <herb>bai zhu</herb>
    <herb>ren shen</herb>
    <herb>fu ling</herb>
    <herb>Bai Shao</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
