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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">yu ye tang</name>
    <name type="english">Jade Fluid Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Enrich Yin and Moisten Dryness</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Augments Qi and nourishes Yin</summary>
      <indication>Wasting-thirst (xiao ke) from Qi and Yin Deficiency, in which the body cannot hold on to or transform the fluids it takes in</indication>
      <indication>Failure of the Primal Qi to rise</indication>
      <indication>Qi Deficiency and thirst as the key features</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue, general weakness and shortness of breath</indication>
      <indication>Epigastric pain</indication>
      <indication>Pulse deficient, weak and thin</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Generates fluids, moistens Dryness and stops thirst</summary>
      <indication>Intense thirst that large amounts of fluid do not relieve</indication>
      <indication>Urine frequent and copious, or turbid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Diabetes</indication>
      <indication>Type 2 diabetes</indication>
      <indication>Early diabetic kidney involvement</indication>
      <indication>Hyperglycemia</indication>
      <indication>Polydipsia</indication>
      <indication>Diabetes insipidus</indication>
      <indication>Frequent urination</indication>
      <indication>Urinary incontinence</indication>
      <indication>Chronic gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Atrophic gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Hypertrophic gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Superficial gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Gastric ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Duodenal ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Epigastric pain</indication>
      <indication>Epidemic hemorrhagic fever</indication>
      <indication>Dyspnea</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>shan yao</herb>
    <herb>huang qi</herb>
    <herb>zhi mu</herb>
    <herb>tian hua fen</herb>
    <herb>ji nei jin</herb>
    <herb>ge gen</herb>
    <herb>wu wei zi</herb>
  </constituents>
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