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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">zeng ye cheng qi tang</name>
    <name type="english">Increase the Fluids and Order the Qi Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Drain Downward</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Enriches Yin and generates fluids</summary>
      <indication>Yang Ming deficiency: fluids too depleted to move the stool</indication>
      <indication>Yin-deficient constipation that Zeng Ye Tang alone has not moved</indication>
      <indication>Thirst with a dry mouth and lips</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red, thin and dry, with little or no coat, or a thin yellow or scorched yellow coat; pulse thin and slightly rapid, or weak and without force</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Drains Heat and unblocks the bowels</summary>
      <indication>Dry, hard stools that are hard to pass, even with purgatives</indication>
      <indication>Fullness and distension of the epigastrium and abdomen</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Habitual constipation</indication>
      <indication>Irritable bowel syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Hemorrhoids</indication>
      <indication>Anal fissures</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal fullness and distension</indication>
      <indication>Chronic pancreatitis</indication>
      <indication>Intestinal tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Aphthous ulcers</indication>
      <indication>Gingivitis</indication>
      <indication>Periodontitis</indication>
      <indication>Toothache</indication>
      <indication>Base formula for oral side effects of radiation</indication>
      <indication>Dry mucous membranes</indication>
      <indication>Dry skin</indication>
      <indication>Skin diseases</indication>
      <indication>Epistaxis</indication>
      <indication>Glaucoma</indication>
      <indication>Hyperthyroidism</indication>
      <indication>Hypertension</indication>
      <indication>Headache</indication>
      <indication>Dizziness</indication>
      <indication>Neck stiffness</indication>
      <indication>Fever</indication>
      <indication>After-effects of infectious diseases</indication>
      <indication>Postpartum anuria</indication>
      <indication>Kidney failure</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>xuan shen</herb>
    <herb>mai men dong</herb>
    <herb>sheng di huang</herb>
    <herb>da huang</herb>
    <herb>mang xiao</herb>
  </constituents>
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