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Indian Buead|Tuckahoe

Latin Pharmaceutical Name

Poria

Chinese Name

茯苓

Category

Seaweeds and fungi

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Production Regions

Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Anhui, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang.

Macroscopic Features

Sclerotium is an irregular lump, spherical, flat, elliptical or long oval shaped, uneven sized, small one is similar to a fist, larger one has diameter about 20~30cm, or even larger. Externally grayish-brown or black-brown, tumor-like wrinkles, inside is white and slightly pink, composed of numerous mycelia threads. Sporocarp is umbrella-like, 0.5~2mm. Edge has small teeth. Gamobium is not easy to see, but is cell-like and often is found in the outer skin of the sclerotium; white at early stage, then gradually turn into brown in polygon shape; basidium is bat-like, spore is oval to cylindrical and slightly curved, with one pointy end, smooth and colorless. Distinctive odor.

Quality Requirements

Superior medicinal material is heavy and firm, outer skin is brown with thin wrinkles, without cracks, fractured surface is white and smooth, very sticky to teeth.

Properties

Sweet, tasteless; neutral

Functions

Promotes urination, leaches out dampness, fortifies the spleen and stomach, calms spirit. Apply to dysuria, edema, phlegm and retained fluid and cough, vomiting, less intake due to deficiency of spleen, diarrhea, and fright and nervous, insomnia and amnesia, spermatorrhea and gonorrhea.

Processed Form

‘Fu ling pi’: this refers to the outer skin of Fu ling, long strips with uneven size, relatively loose and soft texture, with flexibility; promotes urination. ‘Chi fu ling’: this refers to the portion near the outer skin of fu ling ge(whole poria), which has a pale reddish color. ‘Bai fuling’: this refers to the white-colored portion os fu ling that remains after the chi fu ling is removed from whole pieces of poria. ‘Fu shen mu’: this refers to the pine root at the center of fu shen.

Origin

The dried sclerotium of Poria cocos (Schw.) Wolf (Polyporaceae)

Indian Buead|TuckahoeHerbs in the formula

Agastache Qi-Correcting Powder

Action：Releases the exterior and removes dampness, rectifies qi and harmonizes the center.

Indication：Huo Xiang Zheng Qi San is indicated for the contraction of exogenous wind-cold and internal damage by internal dampness. The symptoms include aversion to co1d with fever, headache, chest and diaphragm distension and depression, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, bowel sounds and diarrhea. The tongue has a white, greasy tongue coating. It can also be used to treat conditions that are contracted from the clouds and mists in the mountains, malaria, etc.

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Poria Pill

Action：Dries dampness and moves qi, softens hard masses and dissolves phlegm.

Indication：Fu Ling Wan is applicable to patterns of phlegm hidden in the middle jiao or lingering along the channels and collaterals. Clinical symptoms may involve aching pain or spasm of the arms, being unable to lift the arms, moving pain in the arms, numbness of the hands, and edema of the four limbs. The tongue coating is white and greasy, and the pulse is deep and thin or wiry and slippery.

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Immature Bitter Orange Stagnation-Moving Pill

Action：Promotes digestion, removes stagnation, clears heat, and removes dampness.

Indication：Food accumulation with damp-heat, marked by distending pain of the abdomen and stomach cavity, diarrhea, constipation, dark, scanty urine, a greasy yellow tongue coating, and a deep, forceful pulse.

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Immature Bitter Orange and Glomus-Dispersing Pill

Action：Disperses and relieves fullness, fortifies the spleen and harmonizes the stomach.

Indication：Spleen deficiency and qi stagnation with cold and heat combined, characterized by fullness below the heart, no desire to eat or drink, tiredness, lack of strength, difficult defecation, greasy, slight yellow tongue coating, and a wiry pulse.

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Spleen-Restoring Decoction

Action：Boosts qi, supplements blood; fortifies the spleen, and nourishes the heart.

Indication：1. Qi and blood deficiency of the heart and spleen marked by palpitations, amnesia, insomnia, night sweat, deficiency-heat, tiredness, reduced food intake, withered-sallow complexion, a pale tongue with a thin, white coating, and thready, weak pulses.

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Pubescent Angelica and Mistletoe Decoction

Action：Dispels wind-dampness, relieves pain, boosts the liver and kidney, supplements qi and blood.

Indication：This formula is indicated for long-term bi syndrome associated with deficiency of the liver and kidney and insufficiency of qi and blood. The symptoms include pain and flaccidity of the waist and knees, disorder of flexion and extension of the joints, numbness, fear of cold with a preference for warmth, palpitations, and shortness of breath. The tongue is pale with a white coating and the pulse is thready and weak.

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Polyporus Decoction

Action：Promotes urination, nourishes yin, and clears heat.

Indication：Zhu Ling Tang is indicated for patterns of binding water and heat. The symptoms are dysuria, fever, thirst with a desire to drink, vexation, insomnia, coughing, vomiting, nausea, and diarrhea. The tongue is red with a white or slightly yellow coating and the pulse is thready and rapid. It is also indicated for blood strangury marked by difficult, painful urination as well as pain and distension of the abdomen.

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Sour Jujube Decoction

Action：Nourishes blood and calms the mind, clears heat and relieves vexation.

Indication：Suan Zao Ren Tang is indicated for deficiency of liver-blood with internal deficiency heat. The symptoms are vexation, insomnia, palpitations, restlessness, dizziness, dry throat, dry mouth, a red tongue, and a wiry, thin pulse.

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Sweet Wormwood and Scutellaria Gallbladder-Clearing Decoction

Action：Clears gallbladder, drains dampness, harmonizes the stomach, and dissolves phlegm.

Indication：Pattern of shaoyang damp-heat marked by alternating chills and fever similar to malaria, more fever than chills, a bitter taste in the mouth, diaphragm oppression, sour and bitter regurgitation, spitting yellow sticky drool, belching, hiccups, distending pain in the chest and rib-side, yellow scanty urine, a red tongue body, a white greasy or white yellow tongue coating, and a rapid, slippery right pulse and a rapid, wiry pulse.

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Spleen-Strengthening Powder

Action：Warms yang and fortifies the spleen, moves qi, and promotes urination.

Indication：Shi Pi San is indicated for a pattern of yin edema caused by spleen-kidney yang deficiency and retention of water-dampness in the interior. The symptoms are swelling of the lower limbs, cold hands and feet, no thirst, fullness and distention of chest and abdomen, loose stool as well. The tongue coating is white and greasy and the pulse is deep, wiry and slow.

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Flower of Kudzuvine Drunk-Relieving Decoction

Action：Promotes urination and disperses to separate and remove the invisible alcohol-dampness pathogenic accumulation, regulates qi and fortifies the spleen.

Indication：This formula is indicated for spleen damage due to alcohol accumulation, marked by dizziness, vomiting, fullness and oppression of the chest and diaphragm, aversion to food, tiredness, dysuria, loose stool, a greasy tongue coating, and a slippery pulse.

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Gallbladder-Warming Decoction

Action：Rectifies qi and dissolves phlegm, harmonizes the stomach and promotes gallbladder secretion.

Indication：Wen Dan Tang is designed for patterns of gallbladder constraint with phlegm stirring up. This patterns manifest timidity and patients may be easily frightened. Other symptoms include vexation, insomnia or dreaminess, nausea, vomiting and hiccup, vertigo, epilepsy. The tongue coating is white and greasy, and the pulse is wiry and slippery.

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Liver-Warming Decoction

Action：Warms and supplements the liver and kidney, moves qi and relieves pain.

Indication： Nuan Gan Jian is indicated for patterns of liver and kidney insufficiency with cold coagulation in the liver channel. Symptoms include cold pain in the testis, lower abdominal pain, fear of cold, and a preference for warmth. The tongue is pale with a white coating, and the pulse is deep and slow.

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Kidney Qi Pill

Action：Supplements the kidney and assists yang.

Indication：Shen Qi Wan is indicated for patterns of kidney yang deficiency manifesting lumbar pain, flaccidity of the lower limbs, cold sensation of the body below the waist, spasm of the lesser abdomen, dysuria or abnormally severe profuse urination at night, impotence, premature ejaculation, a pale, swollen tongue, and a deficient, weak pulse that is deep and thin at the chi position. It is also applicable for patterns of phlegm-retention, edema, xiao ke, beriberi, bladder colic, and dysuria during pregnancy, and so on.

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Free Wanderer Powder

Action：Soothes the liver and resolves constraint, nourishes blood and fortifies the spleen.

Indication：Xiao Yao San is indicated for the pattern of liver constraint, blood deficiency, and spleen weakness, characterized by rib-side pain, headache, dizziness, dry mouth, dry throat, mental fatigue, reduced food intake, menstrual irregularities, distending pain of the breasts, and a wiry, deficient pulse.

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Antelope Horn and Uncaria Decoction

Action：Cools the liver and extinguishes wind, and increases fluids to relax the sinews.

Indication：Ling Jiao Gou Teng Tang is indicated for a pattern of exuberant heat stirring wind. The symptoms are persistent high fever, irritability, restlessness, twitching and spasms of the extremities, convulsions, coma, a dark red tongue body with a dry tongue coating, or a burnt tongue with prickles, and a wiry, rapid pulse.

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Qi-Clearing and Phlegm-Transforming Pill

Action：Clears heat and dissolves phlegm, regulates qi, and relieves cough.

Indication：Qing Qi Hua Tan Wan is indicated for patients with cough caused by phlegm-heat. The symptoms include coughing and panting, expectoration of sticky, yellow sputum, obstruction of the chest and diaphragm, dyspnea, nausea and vomiting, and restlessness and agitation in severe cases. The tongue is red with a greasy and yellow coating and the pulse is slippery and rapid.

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Toxin-Resolving Powder

Action：Dissipates cold, removes dampness, boosts qi, and releases the exterior.

Indication：Bai Du San is indicated for the pattern of externally contracted wind-cold-dampness. The symptoms are strong aversion to cold, high fever, headache, neck stiffness and pain, body soreness and pain, absence of sweating, stuffy nose, harsh voice, cough with phlegm, pi, and distressed chest and diaphragm. The tongue is pale with a white coating, and the pulse is superficial and forceless upon pressing.

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Ginseng and Perilla Beverage

Action：Boosts qi, releases the exterior, rectifies qi, and dissolves phlegm.

Indication：This formula is indicated for a pattern of qi deficiency with contraction of external wind-cold, complicated by interior phlegm-dampness. Signs and symptoms include aversion to cold, fever, absence of sweat, headache, stuffy nose, cough, white phlegm, distended and suppressed chest and abdomen, fatigue, lassitude, short of breath, dislike of speaking, a white tongue coating, and a weak pulse.

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Ginseng, Poria and Atractylodes Macrocephala Powder

Action：Boosts qi and fortifies the spleen, drains dampness and arrests diarrhea.

Indication：Shen Ling Bai Zhu San is indicated for patterns of spleen deficiency with excessive dampness accumulation marked by epigastric bloating or stuffiness, borborygmus, diarrhea, lack of strength in the four limbs, thin body, and lusterless yellow facial complexion. The tongue is pale with a white, greasy coating and the pulse is moderate and deficient.

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Spleen-Fortifying Pill

Action：Fortifies the spleen and harmonizes the stomach, promotes digestion and arrests diarrhea.

Indication：Food accumulation with spleen deficiency, marked by indigestion, fullness and oppression of the abdomen and stomach cavity, loose stool, greasy, yellow tongue coating, and a weak pulse.

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True Warrior Decoction

Action：Warms yang and promotes urination.

Indication：Zhen Wu Tang is indicated for edema due to yang deficiency. The symptoms are fear of cold, cold limbs, urination disturbance, palpitations under the heart, dizziness, muscular twitching, unsteady standing, pain and heaviness of four limbs, edema especially below the waist, abdominal pain, diarrhea, cough, asthma, vomiting and nausea. The tongue is pale and enlarged with teeth-marks with white and glossy coating, and the pulse is deep and thready.

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Mantis Egg Shell Powder

Action：Harmonizes and supplements the heart and the kidney, consolidates essence and arrests emission and urination.

Indication：Sang Piao Xiao San is indicated for a pattern of both heart and kidney deficiency. Signs and symptoms include frequent urination, turbid urine, enuresis, spontaneous seminal emission, absent-mindedness, poor memory, a pale tongue with white coating and a thready, thin pulse.

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Cinnamon and Poria Sweet Dew Beverage

Action：Clears summerheat, resolves heat, transforms qi, and drains dampness.

Indication：This formula is indicated for summerheat-dampness. The symptoms are fever with headache, vexation and thirst, inhibited urination, cholera, vomiting, and diarrhea.

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Cinnamon Twig and Poria Pill

Action：Invigorates blood and dissolves stasis, gradually eliminates masses or lumps.

Indication：Gui Zhi Fu Ling Wan is indicated for stasis obstructing the uterus; for instance, women who chronically have masses or lumps, menstrual spotting, restless fetus, dark purple menses, impalpable abdominal pain, painful amenorrhea, or lochiorrhea. The tongue is dark purple with petechia, and the pulse is deep and choppy.

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Poria, Cinnamon Twig, Atractylodes Macrocephala and Licorice Decoction

Action：Warms yang and dissolves rheum, fortifies the spleen and drains dampness.

Indication：Ling Gui Zhu Gan Tang is indicated for phlegm-rheum due to deficiency of the middle-yang. The symptoms are distention and fullness of chest and rib-side, dizzy vision, palpitations, shortness of breath, and cough. The tongue coating is white and glossy. The pulse is either wiry and slippery or deep and tight.

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Poria, Licorice Root, Schisandra, Dried Ginger, and Asarum Decoction

Action：Warms the lung and dissolves rheum.

Indication：Ling Gan Wu Wei Jiang Xin Tang is indicated for coughing caused by a pattern of cold fluid-retention marked by coughing with a large amount of thin white sputum, a preference to spit out saliva, drooling, and a stuffy chest. The tongue coating is white and glossy and the pulse is wiry and slippery.

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Officinal Magnolia Bark Center-Warming Decoction

Action：Moves qi to eliminate distention, warms the center and dries dampness.

Indication：This formula is indicated for the pattern of spleen-stomach qi stagnation caused by cold-damp. The symptoms are distention, fullness, pain in the stomach cavity and abdomen, no desire to eat or drink, lassitude of the four limbs. The tongue is white and greasy. The pulse is deep and wiry pulse.

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Harmony-Preserving Pill

Action：Promotes digestion and harmonizes the stomach.

Indication：This formula is indicated for food accumulation in the stomach cavity. The symptoms are fullness, distending pain in the abdomen and stomach cavity, belching, acid swallowing, aversion to food, vomiting, and diarrhea. The tongue coating is thick and greasy, and the pulse is slippery.

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Convulsion-Settling Pill

Action：Removes phlegm and extinguishes wind.

Indication：Ding Xian Wan is applicable to epilepsy caused by wind-phlegm-heat accumulation. The clinical manifestation include a sudden onset of epilepsy, dizziness, falling to the ground, losing consciousness, anoopsia, vomiting white foam, wheezing sound in the throat, yelling, convulsion of the limbs, a whitish-yellow and greasy tongue coating, and a wiry, slippery, and slightly rapid pulse. It can also be used to treat manic-depressive psychosis.

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Fritillary Bulb and Snakegourd Fruit Powder

Action：Moistens the lung and clears heat, rectifies qi, and dissolves phlegm.

Indication：Bei Mu Gua Lou San is intended for patients with coughing due to dryness-phlegm. The symptoms are cough, phlegm that is difficult to expectorate, and a dry throat. The tongue coating is white and dry.

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Apricot Kernel and Perilla Powder

Action：Relieves cool-dryness by light diffusion, regulates lung function, and dissolves phlegm.

Indication：Xing Su San is indicated for patterns of externally-contracted cool-dryness. The symptoms are aversion to cold, mild headache, coughing with scanty sputum, stuffy nose, and a dry throat. The tongue coating is white, and the pulse is wiry.

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Rehmannia Drink

Action：Nourishes kidney yin, supplements kidney yang, opens the orifices, and resolves phlegm.

Indication：Di Huang Yin Zi is indicated for yin fei syndrome (aphasia and apraxia) due to kidney qi deficiency and phlegm invading upward manifested as aphasia due to stiffness of the tongue, apraxia of the legs, thirst without a desire to drink, cold legs, and flushed face. The pulse is deep, thin, and weak.

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Yang-Returning Emergency Decoction

Action：Restores yang to rescue from desertion, boosts qi and engenders pulse.

Indication：This formula treats pathogenic cold directly attacking the three yin channels, causing yang weakness. This pattern is characterized by reversal cold of the limbs, debilitated spirit, desire to sleep, aversion to cold, lying curled up, vomiting and diarrhea, stomach pain, no thirst, shivering, greenish-purple nails and lips, frothy saliva, a pale white tongue body with a white tongue coating, and a deep, feeble or barely perceivable pulse.

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Four Gentlemen Decoction

Action：Boosts qi and fortifies the spleen.

Indication：Si Jun Zi Tang is indicated for patterns of spleen-stomach qi deficiency. Clinical manifestations include a pale, lusterless facial complexion, a faint, low voice, shortness of breath, and thin, unformed stool. The tongue is pale with a white coating. The pulse is deficient and weak.

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Pinellia and Officinal Magnolia Bark Decoction

Action：Moves qi and dissipates masses, directs counterflow downward and dissolves phlegm.

Indication：Ban Xia Hou Po Tang is indicated for plum-stone qi (globus hystericus). The symptoms are fullness and tightness in the chest and diaphragm, coughing, and vomiting. The tongue coating is white and moist or white and glossy. The pulse is wiry and slow or wiry and slippery.

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Pinellia, Atractylodes Macrocephala and Gastrodia Decoction

Action：Dries dampness and dissolves phlegm, calms the liver and extinguishes wind.

Indication：Ban Xia Bai Zhu Tian Ma Tang is designed to treat the pattern of wind-phlegm harassing the upper body. Symptoms include dizziness, headache, pi and oppression in the chest and diaphragm, nausea, and vomiting. The tongue coating is greasy and white. The pulse is wiry and slippery.

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Celestial Emperor Heart-Supplementing Elixir

Action：Enriches yin and clears heat, nourishes blood and calms the mind.

Indication：Deficiency of yin and insufficiency of blood have lead to the disturbance of the mind. Symptoms include palpitations, vexation, insomnia, mental fatigue, forgetfulness, nocturnal emission, feverish feeling in palms and soles, aphtha, a sore mouth and tongue, and dry stool. The tongue is red with scanty coating, and the pulse is thin and rapid.

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Six-Ingredient Rehmannia Pill

Action：Supplements and nourishes the liver and kidney.

Indication：Liu Wei Di Huang Wan is indicated for liver-kidney yin deficiency. The symptoms are soreness of the waist and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, deafness, night sweat, seminal emission, xiao ke (wasting-thirst), steaming bone fever, feverish feeling in the palms and soles, a dry mouth and throat, loosening of the teeth, heel pain, dribbling of urine, and unclosed fontanel in children. The tongue is red with scanty coating and the pulse is deep, thready, and rapid.

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Five Substances Powder with Poria

Action：Promotes urination and percolates dampness, warms yang and promotes qi transformation.

Indication：Wu Ling San is indicated for water amassment syndrome due to dysfunction of bladder qi transformation. The symptoms are dysuria, headache with mild fever, thirst and desire to drink, vomiting as soon as drinking, throbbing below the navel, spitting, dizziness, shortness of breath, cough, edema, and diarrhea. The tongue coating is white and the pulse is either floating or floating and rapid.

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Large Gentian Decoction

Action：Scatters wind and clears heat, nourishes and invigorates blood.

Indication：Da Qin Jiao Tang is indicated for an early stage of a wind attacking the channels and collaterals pattern. The symptoms are deviation of the eyes and mouth, difficulty in speaking due to stiff tongue, an inability to move the extremities, often accompanied by aversion to cold with fever, spasms and tension of the extremities, a white or yellow tongue coating, and a superficial, rapid pulse or wiry, thin pulse.

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Eight-Gem Decoction

Action：Boosts qi and supplements blood.

Indication：Ba Zhen Tang is intended for a syndrome of qi and blood deficiency marked by pale or withered-yellow complexion, dizziness, auditory vertigo, lassitude of the four limbs, shortness of breath, reluctance to speak, palpitations, and decreased food intake. The tongue is pale with a thin, white coating and the pulse is thready, weak or deficient, big, and weak.

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Two Matured Substances Decoction

Action：Dries dampness and dissolves phlegm, rectifies qi, and harmonizes the center.

Indication：Er Chen Tang is indicated for damp-phlegm patterns .The symptoms are cough with profuse white phlegm that is easy to be expectorated, nausea and vomiting, chest stuffiness, fatigue and heavy feelings of the body or limbs, vertigo and palpitation. The tongue coating is glossy white or white and greasy, and the pulse is slippery.

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