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  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">bai hu tang</name>
    <name type="english">White Tiger Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Heat from Qi Level</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Qi-level Heat and drains Stomach Fire</summary>
      <indication>Heat at the Yang Ming channel or Qi level, once a cold-damage pathogen has moved inside and no exterior signs are left</indication>
      <indication>Qi-level Stomach Heat, and Jue Yin Heat</indication>
      <indication>The &apos;four bigs&apos;: high fever, heavy sweating, great thirst and a big, flooding pulse</indication>
      <indication>High fever without chills and with a dislike of heat; red face, red or congested eyes and headache</indication>
      <indication>Irritability, restlessness and anxiety; delusions, and delirious talk in serious cases</indication>
      <indication>Toothache, bleeding gums and nosebleed; burning or itching skin</indication>
      <indication>General weakness, possibly heavy laboured breathing, and sometimes a cold-sensitive upper back or severe chills</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal fullness that is soft to pressure, and copious urination</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Generates fluids and relieves thirst</summary>
      <indication>Intense thirst with a strong wish for cold drinks</indication>
      <indication>Dry lips, mouth and tongue, and rough, dry skin</indication>
      <indication>Tongue dry, red at the tip and sides, with a dry yellow or white coat; pulse flooding and forceful, slippery and rapid, or large and forceless</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Encephalitis B</indication>
      <indication>Meningitis</indication>
      <indication>Pneumonia</indication>
      <indication>Lobar pneumonia</indication>
      <indication>Bronchial asthma</indication>
      <indication>Heat stroke</indication>
      <indication>High fever</indication>
      <indication>Common cold</indication>
      <indication>Influenza</indication>
      <indication>Measles</indication>
      <indication>Scarlet fever</indication>
      <indication>Typhoid fever</indication>
      <indication>Hemorrhagic fever</indication>
      <indication>Erysipelas</indication>
      <indication>Fever in some cancers</indication>
      <indication>Diabetes mellitus</indication>
      <indication>Hyperthyroidism</indication>
      <indication>Acute stomatitis</indication>
      <indication>Gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Constipation</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal fullness and distention</indication>
      <indication>Chronic hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Viral hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Pyelonephritis</indication>
      <indication>Thrombocytopenic purpura</indication>
      <indication>Epistaxis</indication>
      <indication>Nasal pain</indication>
      <indication>Red eyes</indication>
      <indication>Headache</indication>
      <indication>Toothache</indication>
      <indication>Gingivitis</indication>
      <indication>Periodontitis</indication>
      <indication>Eczema</indication>
      <indication>Dermatitis</indication>
      <indication>Recalcitrant allergic dermatitis</indication>
      <indication>Psoriasis</indication>
      <indication>Pruritis</indication>
      <indication>Persistent weeping of burn wounds</indication>
      <indication>Rheumatoid arthritis</indication>
      <indication>Rheumatism</indication>
      <indication>Rheumatic fever</indication>
      <indication>Osteoarthritis</indication>
      <indication>Sciatica</indication>
      <indication>Eclampsia</indication>
      <indication>Emotional disorders</indication>
      <indication>AIDS/HIV</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>
  </constituents>
</record>
