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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">tian ma gou teng yin</name>
    <name type="english">Gastrodia and Uncaria Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Extinguish Internal Wind</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Calms the Liver and extinguishes Wind</summary>
      <indication>Liver Yang rising and stirring internal Wind, often with Liver Yin deficient beneath it</indication>
      <indication>Headache, often on one side or at the vertex, brought on or made worse by stress, frustration or anger</indication>
      <indication>Dizziness, vertigo, tinnitus and blurred or dim vision</indication>
      <indication>A feeling of heat rushing up to the head or face</indication>
      <indication>Numbness or tingling, twitching, spasm or mild tremor of the limbs; a trembling tongue</indication>
      <indication>Deviation of the mouth and eyes, convulsions, hemiplegia or paralysis, and in severe cases coma</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat and invigorates the Blood</summary>
      <indication>Heat driving Liver Yang upward, with irritability and a short temper</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red, perhaps with a yellow coat; pulse wiry and often rapid, or wiry, tight and rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Tonifies the Liver and Kidneys and calms the spirit</summary>
      <indication>Insomnia, restless sleep and vivid or disturbing dreams</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Essential hypertension</indication>
      <indication>Renal hypertension</indication>
      <indication>Hypertensive encephalopathy</indication>
      <indication>Arteriosclerosis</indication>
      <indication>Cerebrovascular disease</indication>
      <indication>Stroke</indication>
      <indication>Ischemic stroke</indication>
      <indication>Apoplexy</indication>
      <indication>Cerebral hemorrhage</indication>
      <indication>Cerebral embolism</indication>
      <indication>Cerebral infarction</indication>
      <indication>Transient ischemic attacks</indication>
      <indication>Hemiplegia</indication>
      <indication>Paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Facial paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Facial spasm</indication>
      <indication>Eyelid twitch</indication>
      <indication>Aphasia</indication>
      <indication>Apraxia</indication>
      <indication>Headache</indication>
      <indication>Migraine</indication>
      <indication>Trigeminal neuralgia</indication>
      <indication>Eye pain</indication>
      <indication>Red eyes</indication>
      <indication>Dizziness</indication>
      <indication>Vertigo</indication>
      <indication>Meniere&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Tinnitus</indication>
      <indication>Otitis media</indication>
      <indication>Otorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Ear pain</indication>
      <indication>Parkinson&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Alzheimer&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Multiple sclerosis</indication>
      <indication>Epilepsy</indication>
      <indication>Paresthesia</indication>
      <indication>Numbness</indication>
      <indication>Neurasthenia</indication>
      <indication>Neurosis</indication>
      <indication>Stress</indication>
      <indication>Insomnia</indication>
      <indication>Palpitations</indication>
      <indication>Puerperal eclampsia</indication>
      <indication>Puerperal fever</indication>
      <indication>Dysmenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Menopausal syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Alopecia</indication>
      <indication>HIV/AIDS</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>tian ma</herb>
    <herb>gou teng</herb>
    <herb>shi jue ming</herb>
    <herb>zhi zi</herb>
    <herb>huang qin</herb>
    <herb>yi mu cao</herb>
    <herb>chuan niu xi</herb>
    <herb>du zhong</herb>
    <herb>sang ji sheng</herb>
    <herb>ye jiao teng</herb>
    <herb>fu shen</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
