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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">bai hu jia cang zhu tang</name>
    <name type="english">White Tiger plus atractylodes decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Heat from Qi Level</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat and generates fluids</summary>
      <indication>Yang Ming channel Heat with Damp inside</indication>
      <indication>High fever, heavy sweating, great thirst with a wish to drink, a red face and hot areas of the body</indication>
      <indication>Dryness, irritability and restlessness, with no aversion to cold</indication>
      <indication>Dry stools, though not constipation</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red and dry with a dry yellow coat; pulse rolling, rapid and very large</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Resolves Damp and stops pain</summary>
      <indication>Wind-Damp-Heat Bi with painful joints</indication>
      <indication>Distension in the chest, laboured breathing and abdominal pain</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Arthralgia</indication>
      <indication>Osteoarthritis</indication>
      <indication>Profuse perspiration</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>shi gao</herb>
    <herb>zhi mu</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
    <herb>geng mi</herb>
    <herb>cang zhu</herb>
  </constituents>
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