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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">si ni tang</name>
    <name type="english">Fridgid Extremitites Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Rescue Devastated Yang</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Rescues devastated Yang and restores the pulse</summary>
      <indication>Yang collapse: Kidney Yang deficiency with internal Cold at the Shao Yin level, or exhausted Heart Yang (Yang Xu Jue Ni)</indication>
      <indication>Yang lost after too much sweating treatment at the Tai Yang stage</indication>
      <indication>Limbs icy cold with marked aversion to cold; lying curled up with the knees drawn in</indication>
      <indication>Extreme fatigue, lethargy and constant sleepiness, profuse cold sweat, and in severe cases near-fainting or coma</indication>
      <indication>Pale or dusky face; bluish lips and nails; sometimes a superficial fever with a red face</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale, dusky or dark purple with a slippery white coat; pulse deep and thready, deep and slow, deep and faint or minute, or floating and weak</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms the Middle Jiao, disperses internal Cold and stops diarrhea</summary>
      <indication>Cold in the Yang Ming</indication>
      <indication>Vomiting without thirst, and watery stools containing undigested food</indication>
      <indication>Cold and pain in the abdomen, with indigestion</indication>
      <indication>Edema</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Shock and circulatory collapse</indication>
      <indication>Acute myocardial infarction</indication>
      <indication>Cardiac insufficiency</indication>
      <indication>Congestive heart failure</indication>
      <indication>Palpitations</indication>
      <indication>Cerebrovascular insufficiency</indication>
      <indication>Hypopituitarism</indication>
      <indication>Hypothyroidism</indication>
      <indication>Adrenal insufficiency</indication>
      <indication>Chronic nephritis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic renal failure</indication>
      <indication>Edema</indication>
      <indication>Acute gastroenteritis</indication>
      <indication>Vomiting and diarrhea in acute or chronic gastroenteritis</indication>
      <indication>Nausea and vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Constipation</indication>
      <indication>Cholera</indication>
      <indication>Chronic colitis</indication>
      <indication>Gastroptosis</indication>
      <indication>Indigestion</indication>
      <indication>Anorexia</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain</indication>
      <indication>Intestinal Heat</indication>
      <indication>Cirrhosis of the liver</indication>
      <indication>Jaundice</indication>
      <indication>Chronic prostatitis</indication>
      <indication>Functional uterine bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Dysmenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Recurrent aphthous ulcers</indication>
      <indication>Intoxication</indication>
      <indication>Arthritis</indication>
      <indication>Intractable arthritis</indication>
      <indication>Painful obstruction</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Weakness</indication>
      <indication>Spontaneous perspiration</indication>
      <indication>Sweating of the hands and feet</indication>
      <indication>Influenza</indication>
      <indication>Common cold</indication>
      <indication>Cough</indication>
      <indication>Dyspnea</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>zhi fu zi</herb>
    <herb>gan jiang</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
  </constituents>
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