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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">ling gan qu wei jiang xin tang</name>
    <name type="english">Poria, Licorice, Schisandra, Ginger, and Asarum Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Warm and Transform Cold-Phlegm</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms the Lungs and transforms congested fluids</summary>
      <indication>Cold thin mucus (Han Yin) from Yang deficiency, with fluids collecting in the Lungs because a weak Spleen Yang fails to move them</indication>
      <indication>Cough and wheezing with plenty of thin, watery white sputum that comes up easily</indication>
      <indication>Discomfort or fullness in the chest and diaphragm, sometimes with much saliva</indication>
      <indication>Tongue normal or pale with a white, slippery coat; pulse wiry and slippery</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Cough</indication>
      <indication>Chronic bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Emphysema</indication>
      <indication>Chronic asthma</indication>
      <indication>Cold-type asthma</indication>
      <indication>Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease</indication>
      <indication>Dyspnea</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>fu ling</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
    <herb>gan jiang</herb>
    <herb>xi xin</herb>
    <herb>wu wei zi</herb>
  </constituents>
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