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| Chinese Formula | Actions | Indications | Symptoms of fine-deep-forceless pulse (xi chen wu li) |
| Zhen Wu Tang True Warrior Decoction |
Warms Spleen-Yang and Kidney-Yang; Diuretic. | 1) Kidney Yang Deficiency, or Spleen and Kidney Yang Deficiency, with retention of pathogenic water (anuria, oliguria). 2) Externally-contracted Wind-Cold at the greater Yang-stage. | Ascites (cirrhosis of liver); Chills; Chronic enteritis; Chronic nephritis; Cirrhosis; Congestive heart failure; Cough; Deep pain and heaviness of extremities; Diarrhea; Dizziness; Feeling of pulsation in epigastrium; Generalized oedema; Loose stools; Pain of the abdomen which is worse with cold; Palpitations; Spontaneous sweating that does not relieve the fever; Tremors; Vomiting; Acute articular rheumatism; Chronic bronchitis; Dizziness; Hypothyroidism; Instability; Intestinal tuberculosis; Ménière's disease; Primary hyperaldosteronism; Primary hypertension; Rheumatoid arthritis; Sensation of heaviness of the head; Pale or dark, swollen, tooth-marked tongue, slippery-white coating; Tongue with a white-slippery coating; Fine-Deep-Forceless pulse (Xi Chen Wu Li). |
| Yang He Tang Yang-Heartening Decoction |
Tonifies the Yang; Warms Yang; Tonifies Blood; Disperses Cold; Eliminates stagnation. | Yin-type localized swelling. Its scope not only encompasses problems in the flesh and muscles, but also in the joints, as in some types of crane's-knee, which is a swollen and painful knee joint accompanied by weight loss of the muscles of the thigh and calf. | Arthritis; Chronic osteomyelitis; Leg atrophy; Localized oedema, painful swelling without heads that blend into the surrounding tissue and do not affect the texture or color of the skin, and are not hot to the touch; No infection; Pain and swelling of the knee joint; Pus; Thigh atrophy; Thrombopenia; Fibrocystic breast; Joint disorders, lymphatic disorders (tuberculous patient, long-term or not); Pain in the lower back; Sciatica; Very pale tongue; Fine-Deep-Forceless pulse (Xi Chen Wu Li). |