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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">ji sheng shen qi wan</name>
    <name type="english">Kidney Qi Pill from Formulas to Aid the Living</name>
  </names>
  <category>Warm and Tonify the Yang</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms Yang and tonifies the Kidneys</summary>
      <indication>Pattern: Kidney Yang deficiency with Water flooding; also Lung and Kidney Qi deficiency</indication>
      <indication>Dislike of cold, cold hands and feet, and cold in the lower body</indication>
      <indication>Low back pain and fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Numbness</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale and swollen with tooth marks and a slippery white coat; pulse deep and wiry</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Aids Water transformation, promotes urination and reduces edema</summary>
      <indication>Urination scanty or difficult</indication>
      <indication>Severe pitting edema of the legs</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal distension</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Edema</indication>
      <indication>Edema of the feet</indication>
      <indication>Edema during pregnancy</indication>
      <indication>Ascites</indication>
      <indication>Chronic nephritis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic glomerulonephritis</indication>
      <indication>Nephrotic syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Kidney failure</indication>
      <indication>Oliguria</indication>
      <indication>Dysuria</indication>
      <indication>Strangury</indication>
      <indication>Enuresis</indication>
      <indication>Urinary incontinence</indication>
      <indication>Prostatic hypertrophy</indication>
      <indication>Chronic prostatitis</indication>
      <indication>Impotence</indication>
      <indication>Infertility</indication>
      <indication>Late menstruation</indication>
      <indication>Diabetes mellitus</indication>
      <indication>Hyperglycemia</indication>
      <indication>Diabetic neuropathy</indication>
      <indication>Hypothyroidism</indication>
      <indication>Obesity</indication>
      <indication>Cough</indication>
      <indication>Chronic bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Asthma</indication>
      <indication>Emphysema</indication>
      <indication>COPD</indication>
      <indication>Dyspnea</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal fullness and distention</indication>
      <indication>Low back pain</indication>
      <indication>Osteoporosis</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Intestinal tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic hepatitis</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>shu di huang</herb>
    <herb>shan zhu yu</herb>
    <herb>shan yao</herb>
    <herb>ze xie</herb>
    <herb>fu ling</herb>
    <herb>mu dan pi</herb>
    <herb>guan gui</herb>
    <herb>zhi fu zi</herb>
    <herb>chuan niu xi</herb>
    <herb>che qian zi</herb>
  </constituents>
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