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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">tong mai si ni tang</name>
    <name type="english">Unblock the Pulse Decoction for Fridgid Extremities</name>
  </names>
  <category>Rescue Devastated Yang</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Rescues collapsed Yang</summary>
      <indication>Exhaustion of Heart Yang, with flourishing Yin in the interior pushing Yang outward</indication>
      <indication>Shao Yin stage with Cold inside and Heat on the exterior</indication>
      <indication>Icy cold limbs without aversion to cold, and a flushed face</indication>
      <indication>Watery diarrhoea containing undigested food</indication>
      <indication>Vomiting after drinking, possibly with dry heaves or a painful throat</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale or dark purple; pulse deep and faint, barely perceptible</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Unblocks the pulse and invigorates the Blood</summary>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Prostration</indication>
      <indication>Cardiac failure</indication>
      <indication>Influenza</indication>
      <indication>Typhoid fever</indication>
      <indication>Autointoxication</indication>
      <indication>Nausea</indication>
      <indication>Vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Dyspepsia</indication>
      <indication>Jaundice</indication>
      <indication>Hyperhidrosis</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
    <herb>zhi fu zi</herb>
    <herb>gan jiang</herb>
  </constituents>
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