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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">wu yao shun qi san</name>
    <name type="english">Lindera Powder to Smooth the Flow of Qi</name>
  </names>
  <category>Release Wind from Skin and Channels</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Dispels Wind and stops pain</summary>
      <indication>Wind-stroke affecting the limbs</indication>
      <indication>Numbness and pain through the whole body, with painful joints</indication>
      <indication>Stiff muscles and sinews, paralysis or one-sided paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Weak legs and trouble walking</indication>
      <indication>Deviated eyes and mouth, with difficulty speaking or loss of speech</indication>
      <indication>Headache and dizziness</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Moves Qi</summary>
      <indication>Cold invading the chest and armpits, with stabbing rib-side pain</indication>
      <indication>Fullness of the epigastrium and abdomen, vomiting, rumbling and diarrhea</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Eliminates Phlegm and dispels Damp</summary>
      <indication>Leg Qi</indication>
      <indication>Breathlessness</indication>
      <indication>Tongue normal with a greasy or frothy coat; pulse full and firm</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Cerebrovascular accident</indication>
      <indication>Cerebral hemorrhage</indication>
      <indication>Apoplexy</indication>
      <indication>Post-stroke paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Hemiplegia</indication>
      <indication>Stroke followed by arthralgia</indication>
      <indication>Aphasia</indication>
      <indication>Dysphasia</indication>
      <indication>Bell&apos;s palsy</indication>
      <indication>Trigeminal neuralgia</indication>
      <indication>Neuralgia</indication>
      <indication>Syncope</indication>
      <indication>Cerebromalacia</indication>
      <indication>Senility</indication>
      <indication>Asthma</indication>
      <indication>Frozen shoulder</indication>
      <indication>Frozen, stiff and painful wrist</indication>
      <indication>Tennis elbow</indication>
      <indication>Myalgia</indication>
      <indication>Arthralgia</indication>
      <indication>Weakness</indication>
      <indication>Strangury</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>ma huang</herb>
    <herb>chen pi</herb>
    <herb>wu yao</herb>
    <herb>jiang can</herb>
    <herb>chuan xiong</herb>
    <herb>zhi ke</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
    <herb>bai zhi</herb>
    <herb>jie geng</herb>
    <herb>pao jiang</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
