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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">si ling san</name>
    <name type="english">Four Ingredient Powder with Poria</name>
  </names>
  <category>Promote Urination and leach out dampness</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Regulates water metabolism and drains Damp</summary>
      <indication>Edema from uncomplicated Spleen deficiency, with Damp gathering in the Bladder</indication>
      <indication>Scanty urine that is difficult to pass</indication>
      <indication>Tongue normal with a slippery white coat; pulse floating and rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Strengthens the Spleen</summary>
      <indication>Internal Damp brought on by an unsuitable diet</indication>
      <indication>Loose stools</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Acute or chronic nephritis</indication>
      <indication>Glomerulonephritis</indication>
      <indication>Pyelonephritis</indication>
      <indication>Nephropyelitis</indication>
      <indication>Nephrotic syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Early-stage renal insufficiency</indication>
      <indication>Chronic renal failure</indication>
      <indication>Uremia</indication>
      <indication>Cystitis</indication>
      <indication>Urinary tract infection</indication>
      <indication>Genitourinary infections</indication>
      <indication>Urolithiasis</indication>
      <indication>Neurogenic bladder syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Benign prostatic hypertrophy</indication>
      <indication>Scrotal hydrocele</indication>
      <indication>Scrotal edema</indication>
      <indication>Edema</indication>
      <indication>Cardiac edema</indication>
      <indication>Congestive heart failure</indication>
      <indication>Pericardial and pleural effusions</indication>
      <indication>Ascites</indication>
      <indication>Ascites in liver cirrhosis</indication>
      <indication>Cirrhosis of the liver</indication>
      <indication>Acute infectious hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Cholecystitis</indication>
      <indication>Acute or chronic gastroenteritis</indication>
      <indication>Acute enteritis with diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Cholera</indication>
      <indication>Pseudocholera</indication>
      <indication>Gastroptosis</indication>
      <indication>Gastrectasis</indication>
      <indication>Indigestion</indication>
      <indication>Infantile indigestion</indication>
      <indication>Anorexia</indication>
      <indication>Nausea and vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Cyclic vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Motion sickness</indication>
      <indication>Seasickness</indication>
      <indication>Meniere&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Migraine</indication>
      <indication>Headache from raised intracranial pressure</indication>
      <indication>Hydrocephalus</indication>
      <indication>Trigeminal neuralgia</indication>
      <indication>Toxemia of pregnancy</indication>
      <indication>Gestational hypertension</indication>
      <indication>Polyhydramnios</indication>
      <indication>Diabetes</indication>
      <indication>Glaucoma</indication>
      <indication>Central serous retinopathy</indication>
      <indication>Nyctalopia</indication>
      <indication>Catarrhal conjunctivitis</indication>
      <indication>Viral conjunctivitis</indication>
      <indication>Dacryocystitis</indication>
      <indication>Otitis media</indication>
      <indication>Common cold</indication>
      <indication>Influenza</indication>
      <indication>Rhinorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Allergic rhinitis</indication>
      <indication>Diffuse vocal cord polyps</indication>
      <indication>Dyspnea</indication>
      <indication>Aphthous ulcers</indication>
      <indication>Varicella</indication>
      <indication>Herpes zoster</indication>
      <indication>Blisters</indication>
      <indication>Eczema</indication>
      <indication>Urticaria</indication>
      <indication>Cold-type urticaria</indication>
      <indication>Flat warts</indication>
      <indication>Alopecia</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>ze xie</herb>
    <herb>fu ling</herb>
    <herb>zhu ling</herb>
    <herb>bai zhu</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
