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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">bai hu jia ren shen tang</name>
    <name type="english">White Tiger plus Ginseng Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Heat from Qi Level</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Qi-level Heat and drains Stomach Fire</summary>
      <indication>Yang Ming channel or Qi-level Heat with Qi and body fluids depleted</indication>
      <indication>Qi and fluids damaged by Summerheat, or by vomiting or purging</indication>
      <indication>High fever, heavy sweating, dislike of heat, a red face, red or congested eyes and headache</indication>
      <indication>Irritability and anxiety, delusions, and in serious cases delirious talk or mania</indication>
      <indication>Toothache, bleeding gums and nosebleed</indication>
      <indication>Burning or itching skin</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Generates fluids and relieves thirst</summary>
      <indication>Severe thirst that may not be quenched</indication>
      <indication>Dry lips, mouth and tongue, and rough, dry skin</indication>
      <indication>Copious urination</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Tonifies Qi</summary>
      <indication>General weakness and listlessness, sometimes with heavy, laboured breathing</indication>
      <indication>Possibly a feeling of cold across the upper back, or severe chills</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal fullness that is soft to pressure</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red at the tip and sides with a dry yellow or white coat; pulse large but without force</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Pneumonia</indication>
      <indication>Lobar pneumonia</indication>
      <indication>Bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Asthma</indication>
      <indication>Upper respiratory tract infection</indication>
      <indication>Common cold</indication>
      <indication>Influenza</indication>
      <indication>Measles</indication>
      <indication>Scarlet fever</indication>
      <indication>Typhoid fever</indication>
      <indication>Erysipelas</indication>
      <indication>Encephalitis B</indication>
      <indication>Meningitis</indication>
      <indication>Bacterial infections</indication>
      <indication>Viral infections</indication>
      <indication>Heat stroke</indication>
      <indication>High fever</indication>
      <indication>Cerebral bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Basedow&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Diabetes mellitus</indication>
      <indication>Hyperglycemia</indication>
      <indication>Uremia</indication>
      <indication>Nephritis</indication>
      <indication>Nocturnal enuresis</indication>
      <indication>Cholecystitis</indication>
      <indication>Gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal fullness and distention</indication>
      <indication>Dermatitis</indication>
      <indication>Eczema</indication>
      <indication>Urticaria</indication>
      <indication>Pruritis</indication>
      <indication>Epistaxis</indication>
      <indication>Hemophthalmia</indication>
      <indication>Red eyes</indication>
      <indication>Toothache</indication>
      <indication>Gingivitis</indication>
      <indication>Periodontitis</indication>
      <indication>Bad breath</indication>
      <indication>Peripheral neuropathy</indication>
      <indication>Emotional disorders</indication>
      <indication>AIDS/HIV/ARC</indication>
      <indication>Weakness</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>ren shen</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
