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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">ma huang fu zi gan cao tang</name>
    <name type="english">Ephedra, Prepared Aconite and Licorice Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Formulas that Release Exterior Disorders with Interior Deficiency</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Disperses Wind-Cold</summary>
      <indication>Wind-Cold on a base of Yang deficiency (Tai Yang and Shao Yin together)</indication>
      <indication>Chills and fever with marked dislike of cold</indication>
      <indication>Aching body with no sweating</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Replenishes Yang</summary>
      <indication>Shortness of breath</indication>
      <indication>Pulse submerged and small</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Promotes urination</summary>
      <indication>Oedema, mild or spread through the body</indication>
      <indication>Difficult, painful urination</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Edema</indication>
      <indication>Dyspnea</indication>
      <indication>Dysuria</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>ma huang</herb>
    <herb>zhi fu zi</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
  </constituents>
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