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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">chai hu gui zhi gan jiang tang</name>
    <name type="english">Bupleurum, Cinnamon Twig, And Ginger</name>
  </names>
  <category>Harmonize Lesser Yang Stage Disorders</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Harmonizes and releases the Shao Yang and disperses clumping</summary>
      <indication>Shao Yang disorder with fluids collecting in the interior</indication>
      <indication>Chills and fever that alternate; chills strong with slight fever, or chills with no fever</indication>
      <indication>Pain in the flanks with a full, clumped feeling in the chest and flanks</indication>
      <indication>Heat in the Liver and Gallbladder together with Cold in the Stomach</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms the interior and dispels Cold</summary>
      <indication>Malaria-type disorders where chills outweigh fever</indication>
      <indication>Cold limbs and dislike of wind</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhoea or loose stools; gastric distention</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Dispels water accumulation</summary>
      <indication>Difficult or scanty urination</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat, moistens the Lungs, astringes sweating and relieves upward flushing</summary>
      <indication>Thirst, headache and sweating from the head</indication>
      <indication>Dry cough; tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Night sweats</indication>
      <indication>Irritability, anxiety and poor sleep</indication>
      <indication>Palpitations, sometimes rapid</indication>
      <indication>Tongue moist with a slippery white coat; pulse wiry and tight on the left, wiry and slow on the right, thin and rapid, or irregular</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Common cold</indication>
      <indication>Influenza</indication>
      <indication>Fever</indication>
      <indication>Malaria</indication>
      <indication>Pneumonia</indication>
      <indication>Bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Pleurisy</indication>
      <indication>Pulmonary tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Meningitis</indication>
      <indication>Acute hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Cirrhosis of the Liver, including early-stage</indication>
      <indication>Cholecystitis</indication>
      <indication>Cholelithiasis</indication>
      <indication>After removal of the gallbladder</indication>
      <indication>Gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Peptic ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Gastric prolapse</indication>
      <indication>Indigestion</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal fullness and distention</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Bacillary dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Allergic colitis</indication>
      <indication>Urinary tract infection</indication>
      <indication>Oliguria</indication>
      <indication>Diabetes</indication>
      <indication>Meniere&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Sinus tachycardia</indication>
      <indication>Palpitations</indication>
      <indication>Night sweats</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Psycho-emotional disorders</indication>
      <indication>Anxiety</indication>
      <indication>Stress</indication>
      <indication>Insomnia</indication>
      <indication>Neurasthenia</indication>
      <indication>Perimenopausal syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Postpartum fever</indication>
      <indication>Erectile dysfunction</indication>
      <indication>Fibroadenoma of the breasts</indication>
      <indication>Fibrocystic breast disease</indication>
      <indication>Scrofula</indication>
      <indication>Acne</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>chai hu</herb>
    <herb>gui zhi</herb>
    <herb>gan jiang</herb>
    <herb>tian hua fen</herb>
    <herb>huang qin</herb>
    <herb>mu li</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
