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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">yi yi ren tang</name>
    <name type="english">Coicis Decoction from Enlightened Physicians</name>
  </names>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Dispels Wind and Damp</summary>
      <indication>Painful obstruction (Bi) from Wind, Cold and Damp in which Damp predominates</indication>
      <indication>Blood deficiency with Wind-Damp Bi</indication>
      <indication>Bi that did not respond to treatment, or was wrongly treated in the acute stage, and is turning chronic</indication>
      <indication>Joints swollen, painful, heavy, numb and stiff, especially in the hands and feet; numb, painful limbs</indication>
      <indication>Heavy, cold body, liking warmth and pressure</indication>
      <indication>Fever, dizziness, tiredness and a pale face</indication>
      <indication>Thickened, hardened skin</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale with a thick white or greasy white coat; pulse thin and slippery</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Benefits Qi, tonifies Blood and moistens dry Blood</summary>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Invigorates Blood circulation and reduces swelling</summary>
      <indication>Wei (atrophy) syndrome from Damp-Heat</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms the channels and relieves spasm and muscle tension</summary>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Arthritis</indication>
      <indication>Rheumatoid arthritis</indication>
      <indication>Mucoid arthritis</indication>
      <indication>Tubercular arthritis</indication>
      <indication>Rheumatism, including muscular rheumatism and polyrheumatism</indication>
      <indication>Arthralgia</indication>
      <indication>Painful obstruction</indication>
      <indication>Gout</indication>
      <indication>Toe pain</indication>
      <indication>Hip pain</indication>
      <indication>Low back pain</indication>
      <indication>Chronic fever with swollen limbs</indication>
      <indication>Numbness</indication>
      <indication>Paraesthesia</indication>
      <indication>Weakness</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Apoplexy</indication>
      <indication>Beriberi</indication>
      <indication>Nephritis</indication>
      <indication>Pulmonary oedema</indication>
      <indication>Pleurisy</indication>
      <indication>Genital warts</indication>
      <indication>AIDS/HIV</indication>
      <indication>Wei (atrophy) syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Myasthenia gravis</indication>
      <indication>Multiple sclerosis</indication>
      <indication>Guillain-Barre syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Polyneuritis, including acute infectious polyneuritis</indication>
      <indication>Acute myelitis</indication>
      <indication>Progressive muscular dystrophy</indication>
      <indication>After-effects of poliomyelitis</indication>
      <indication>Paralysis: hysterical, periodic or facial</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>ma huang</herb>
    <herb>dang gui</herb>
    <herb>cang zhu</herb>
    <herb>yi yi ren</herb>
    <herb>gui zhi</herb>
    <herb>Bai Shao</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
  </constituents>
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