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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">gui zhi ren shen tang</name>
    <name type="english">Cinnamon Twig and Ginseng Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Warm the Middle and Dispel Cold</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Releases the Exterior</summary>
      <indication>Combined Tai Yang and Tai Yin disorder</indication>
      <indication>Fever, chills, headache and aching joints, with sweating</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms the Interior and tonifies Qi</summary>
      <indication>Severe diarrhea with a cold body and limbs, cold feet and weak extremities</indication>
      <indication>Palpitations felt in the upper abdomen; difficult urination</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Relieves distention</summary>
      <indication>Distention of the epigastrium</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Colds with digestive symptoms</indication>
      <indication>Influenza</indication>
      <indication>Fever</indication>
      <indication>Recurrent headache</indication>
      <indication>Arthralgia</indication>
      <indication>Acute gastroenteritis</indication>
      <indication>Severe diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Indigestion</indication>
      <indication>Chronic gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Peptic ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Duodenal ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Gastroptosis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic colitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic cholecystitis</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal Cold</indication>
      <indication>Viral myocarditis</indication>
      <indication>Coronary heart disease</indication>
      <indication>Nervous palpitations</indication>
      <indication>Perspiration</indication>
      <indication>Ephidrosis</indication>
      <indication>Weakness</indication>
      <indication>Alopecia</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>gui zhi</herb>
    <herb>gan jiang</herb>
    <herb>ren shen</herb>
    <herb>bai zhu</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
  </constituents>
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