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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">wu pi yin</name>
    <name type="english">Five Peel Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Promote Urination and leach out dampness</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Resolves Damp and reduces edema</summary>
      <indication>Skin water: Spleen deficiency with heavy Damp and Qi stagnation</indication>
      <indication>Edema of the whole body, including edema in summer and in pregnancy</indication>
      <indication>Difficult urination</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Regulates Qi and reduces swelling</summary>
      <indication>Heaviness, bloating and fullness in the epigastrium and abdomen, with distention of the chest</indication>
      <indication>Heavy, labored or quick breathing, gasping and asthma</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Strengthens the Kidneys</summary>
      <indication>Tongue normal with a white slippery coat; pulse thin and moderate, or slippery</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Edema, including whole-body edema</indication>
      <indication>Edema during pregnancy</indication>
      <indication>Menopausal edema</indication>
      <indication>Protein-deficiency edema</indication>
      <indication>Cardiac edema</indication>
      <indication>Nephritic edema</indication>
      <indication>Dropsy</indication>
      <indication>Nephritis</indication>
      <indication>Kidney failure</indication>
      <indication>Ascites from liver cirrhosis</indication>
      <indication>Congestive heart failure</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal fullness and distention</indication>
      <indication>Gasping</indication>
      <indication>Urticaria</indication>
      <indication>Obesity</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>sang bai pi</herb>
    <herb>sheng jiang pi</herb>
    <herb>fu ling pi</herb>
    <herb>da fu pi</herb>
    <herb>wu jia pi</herb>
    <herb>di gu pi</herb>
  </constituents>
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