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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">yu ping feng san</name>
    <name type="english">Jade Windscreen Powder</name>
  </names>
  <category>Stabilize the Exterior and the Lungs</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Tonifies Qi and stabilises the Exterior</summary>
      <indication>Deficiency of Wei Qi or Lung Qi leaving the Exterior weak and unstable</indication>
      <indication>Colds caught easily and again and again from slight exposure, often several in a season</indication>
      <indication>Strong dislike of wind, drafts and cold, preferring to stay covered</indication>
      <indication>Pale, shiny complexion and fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale or pink with a thin white coat; pulse floating, deficient and soft</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Stops sweating</summary>
      <indication>Spontaneous sweating from Qi or Wei Qi Deficiency, with little or no exertion and not linked to heat or hard exercise</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Disperses Wind</summary>
      <indication>Given between illnesses to prevent recurrence, clearing lingering Wind without opening the Exterior</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Common cold</indication>
      <indication>Prevention of colds and respiratory infections</indication>
      <indication>Influenza</indication>
      <indication>Upper respiratory tract infection</indication>
      <indication>Chronic rhinitis</indication>
      <indication>Allergic rhinitis</indication>
      <indication>Hay fever</indication>
      <indication>Chronic sinusitis</indication>
      <indication>Bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Mild bronchitis, above all in children</indication>
      <indication>Flare-ups of chronic bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Bronchial asthma</indication>
      <indication>Cough</indication>
      <indication>Dyspnea</indication>
      <indication>Pneumonia</indication>
      <indication>Emphysema</indication>
      <indication>COPD</indication>
      <indication>Cor pulmonale</indication>
      <indication>Nephritis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic glomerulonephritis</indication>
      <indication>Nephrotic syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Urticaria</indication>
      <indication>Neurodermatitis</indication>
      <indication>Herpes zoster</indication>
      <indication>Facial paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Hyperthyroidism</indication>
      <indication>Autonomic dystonia</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Chronic fatigue syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Spontaneous perspiration</indication>
      <indication>Abnormal perspiration</indication>
      <indication>Postpartum convulsions</indication>
      <indication>Upper back pain</indication>
      <indication>AIDS/HIV/ARC</indication>
      <indication>Spontaneous and night sweating in AIDS/HIV</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>huang qi</herb>
    <herb>bai zhu</herb>
    <herb>fang feng</herb>
  </constituents>
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