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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">ju yuan jian</name>
    <name type="english">Life the Source Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Tonfiy the Qi</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Tonifies Qi to tonify the Blood</summary>
      <indication>Qi so deficient that heavy bleeding follows, with collapse and exhausted Yang</indication>
      <indication>Pale, watery blood</indication>
      <indication>Palpitations, shortness of breath and reluctance to speak</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue and a shiny, pale face</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale with a thin, moist coat; pulse deficient and frail, or weak and smooth</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Raises Yang Qi</summary>
      <indication>Sinking feeling in the lower abdomen</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal fullness</indication>
      <indication>Lower back pain</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Menorrhagia</indication>
      <indication>Organ prolapse</indication>
      <indication>Rectal prolapse</indication>
      <indication>Postpartum uterine bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Leukemia</indication>
      <indication>Vaginal pain</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal fullness and distention</indication>
      <indication>Metrorrhagia</indication>
      <indication>Fetal restlessness</indication>
      <indication>Aplastic anemia</indication>
      <indication>Threatened miscarriage</indication>
      <indication>Uterine fibroids</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Prolonged menstruation</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>huang qi</herb>
    <herb>ren shen</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
    <herb>sheng ma</herb>
    <herb>bai zhu</herb>
  </constituents>
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