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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">yang xin tang</name>
    <name type="english">Nourish the Heart Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Formulas that Nourish the Heart and Calm the Spirit</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Nourishes the Heart</summary>
      <indication>Blood deficiency in a person of weak constitution, or debility after an illness</indication>
      <indication>Anxious palpitations, poor memory and insomnia</indication>
      <indication>Low-grade fever with a withered, sallow complexion</indication>
      <indication>Tongue slightly red; pulse deficient and frail</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Calms the Shen</summary>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Anaemia</indication>
      <indication>Neurasthenia</indication>
      <indication>Palpitations</indication>
      <indication>Arrhythmia</indication>
      <indication>Tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Insomnia</indication>
      <indication>Forgetfulness, absent-mindedness and poor concentration</indication>
      <indication>Alzheimer&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Lupus erythematosus</indication>
      <indication>Depressive psychosis</indication>
      <indication>Bipolar disorder</indication>
      <indication>Schizophrenia</indication>
      <indication>Psychosis</indication>
      <indication>Low-grade fever</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>dang gui</herb>
    <herb>sheng di huang</herb>
    <herb>shu di huang</herb>
    <herb>fu shen</herb>
    <herb>ren shen</herb>
    <herb>mai men dong</herb>
    <herb>suan zao ren</herb>
    <herb>bai zi ren</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
    <herb>wu wei zi</herb>
  </constituents>
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