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  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">si qi tang</name>
    <name type="english">Four-Ingredient Decoction for the Seven Emotions</name>
  </names>
  <category>Promote Movement of Qi</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Moves Qi and disperses clumping</summary>
      <indication>Accumulated Phlegm disturbing the emotions: anger, fear or fright, low mood, obsessive thinking, grief, sadness and melancholy</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Descends rebellious Qi, transforms Phlegm and harmonizes the Stomach</summary>
      <indication>Tongue normal with a moist white coat; pulse wiry and slippery</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Schizophrenia</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>ban xia</herb>
    <herb>hou po</herb>
    <herb>fu ling</herb>
    <herb>sheng jiang</herb>
    <herb>zi su ye</herb>
    <herb>da zao</herb>
  </constituents>
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