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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">qian zheng san</name>
    <name type="english">Lead to Symmetry Powder</name>
  </names>
  <category>Release Wind from Skin and Channels</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Dispels Wind</summary>
      <indication>Wind-Phlegm lodged in the channels and collaterals of the head and face (Wind-stroke at the channel level)</indication>
      <indication>Sudden paralysis of one side of the face, often after exposure to Wind-Cold such as a draft or a fan</indication>
      <indication>Eye and mouth pulled toward the healthy side; the eye may not close fully and the mouth may not be controlled</indication>
      <indication>Numb, paralysed skin of the face</indication>
      <indication>Fever with intolerance of cold, and sore, aching joints</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Resolves Phlegm</summary>
      <indication>Constant drooling that cannot be controlled</indication>
      <indication>Speech that is difficult</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Stops spasms</summary>
      <indication>The paralysed side of the face may twitch or go into spasm</indication>
      <indication>Spasms of the limbs</indication>
      <indication>Pain slight or absent, with no neurological signs elsewhere in the body</indication>
      <indication>Tongue normal with a thin white coat; pulse wiry, taut and thready, floating and rapid, or slippery</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Bell&apos;s palsy and acute peripheral facial palsy</indication>
      <indication>Facial paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Facial spasms</indication>
      <indication>Facial pain</indication>
      <indication>Trigeminal neuralgia</indication>
      <indication>Migraine and vascular headache</indication>
      <indication>Stroke (cerebrovascular accident)</indication>
      <indication>Hemiplegia</indication>
      <indication>Aphasia</indication>
      <indication>Numbness and paresthesia</indication>
      <indication>Peripheral neuritis</indication>
      <indication>Parkinson&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Tourette syndrome</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>zhi bai fu zi</herb>
    <herb>jiang can</herb>
    <herb>quan xie</herb>
  </constituents>
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