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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">qi wei bai zhu san</name>
    <name type="english">Seven-Ingredient Powder with Atractylodes Macrocephala</name>
  </names>
  <category>Tonfiy the Qi</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Strengthens the Spleen</summary>
      <indication>Deficient Spleen and Stomach</indication>
      <indication>Sallow complexion, tiredness and wasting</indication>
      <indication>Limbs that feel heavy, weak and tired</indication>
      <indication>Poor appetite with no desire to eat or drink, and loss of taste</indication>
      <indication>Fullness and distension of the epigastrium and abdomen, worse after meals</indication>
      <indication>Frequent belching, possible acid regurgitation, and borborygmus</indication>
      <indication>Shortness of breath and irritability</indication>
      <indication>Excessive thirst</indication>
      <indication>Copious clear urine</indication>
      <indication>Seizures in severe cases</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale, swollen and possibly tooth-marked, coat white or white and dry; pulse deficient, even and without force, or thready and without force</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Stops diarrhea</summary>
      <indication>Diarrhea or loose stools with vomiting</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Diabetes</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>ren shen</herb>
    <herb>bai zhu</herb>
    <herb>fu ling</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
    <herb>mu xiang</herb>
    <herb>huo xiang ye</herb>
    <herb>ge gen</herb>
  </constituents>
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