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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">ren shen ge jie san</name>
    <name type="english">Ginseng and Gecko Powder</name>
  </names>
  <category>Tonfiy the Qi</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Tonifies Lung and Kidney Qi and helps the Kidneys grasp Qi</summary>
      <indication>Deficient Qi of both Lungs and Kidneys, with Phlegm-Heat left in the Lungs, in a long-standing cough that has spread from the Lungs down to the Kidneys</indication>
      <indication>Long-term breathlessness and wheeze that get worse with effort or on the in-breath</indication>
      <indication>Weight loss over time, tiredness, and in advanced cases puffiness of the face or legs</indication>
      <indication>Chronic Lung atrophy or consumptive Lung disease from deficiency Heat</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Lung Heat and transforms Phlegm</summary>
      <indication>Cough with thick, yellow sputum, sometimes bringing up pus and blood</indication>
      <indication>Hot, irritable, restless feeling in the chest</indication>
      <indication>Tongue purple with a thin coat, white or yellow and greasy; pulse floating and deficient, most of all at the first position</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Stops cough and arrests wheezing</summary>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Asthma, including chronic, stable-phase and bronchial asthma</indication>
      <indication>Asthmatic bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>COPD</indication>
      <indication>Emphysema</indication>
      <indication>Bronchiectasis</indication>
      <indication>Pulmonary heart disease</indication>
      <indication>Pulmonary tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Upper respiratory tract infection</indication>
      <indication>Hay fever</indication>
      <indication>Cough</indication>
      <indication>Dyspnoea and gasping</indication>
      <indication>Facial oedema</indication>
      <indication>Spontaneous sweating</indication>
      <indication>Urinary incontinence when coughing</indication>
      <indication>Weakness</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>ge jie</herb>
    <herb>ren shen</herb>
    <herb>fu ling</herb>
    <herb>sang bai pi</herb>
    <herb>xing ren</herb>
    <herb>chuan bei mu</herb>
    <herb>zhi mu</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
  </constituents>
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