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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">gui zhi gan cao long gu mu li tang</name>
    <name type="english">Cinnamon Twig, Licorice, Dragon Bone, and Oyster Shell Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Stabilize the Kidneys</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Unblocks Yang Qi and benefits Yin</summary>
      <indication>Heart Yang deficiency</indication>
      <indication>Heart Yin or Yang out of order, so that the Shen floats upward</indication>
      <indication>Palpitations, shortness of breath and spontaneous sweating</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale with a greasy white coat; pulse floating and slow, or slow and irregular</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Calms the Shen and eliminates irritability</summary>
      <indication>Irritability and restlessness</indication>
      <indication>Classically, irritability after warm-needle treatment was misapplied, scorching Heart Yin and damaging Heart Yang</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Palpitations</indication>
      <indication>Irritability</indication>
      <indication>Restlessness</indication>
      <indication>Spontaneous perspiration</indication>
      <indication>Cardiac neurosis</indication>
      <indication>Neurasthenia</indication>
      <indication>Coronary heart disease</indication>
      <indication>Rheumatic heart disease</indication>
      <indication>Congestive heart failure</indication>
      <indication>Atrial fibrillation</indication>
      <indication>Sinus bradycardia</indication>
      <indication>Atrioventricular block with palpitations</indication>
      <indication>Thromboangitis obliterans</indication>
      <indication>Dyspnea</indication>
      <indication>Facial edema</indication>
      <indication>Nocturnal emission from Yin-Yang imbalance</indication>
      <indication>Hypogonadism</indication>
      <indication>Eyelid twitch</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Weakness</indication>
      <indication>AIDS/HIV</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>gui zhi</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
    <herb>long gu</herb>
    <herb>mu li</herb>
  </constituents>
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