| Chinese Formula | Actions | Indications | Symptoms related to fine-deep-forceless pulse (xi chen wu li) |
Zhen Wu Tang
True Warrior Decoction
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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).
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Yang He Tang
Yang-Heartening Decoction
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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).
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