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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">da chai hu tang</name>
    <name type="english">Major Bupleurum Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Harmonize Lesser Yang Stage Disorders</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Harmonizes and vents the Shao Yang</summary>
      <indication>Shao Yang disorder combined with Yang Ming excess, with Heat and accumulation bound in the bowels; also Liver and Gallbladder Fire</indication>
      <indication>Alternating chills and fever, or a fever that will not resolve</indication>
      <indication>Fullness of the chest and flanks, with or without pain</indication>
      <indication>Bitter taste, low spirits, and mild irritability and fidgeting</indication>
      <indication>Headache, ringing in the ears, dulled hearing and vision, and red eyes</indication>
      <indication>Manic behaviour or an unstable mental state</indication>
      <indication>Tongue normal or red with a yellow or thick yellow coat; pulse wiry, rapid and forceful, or wiry, tight and forceful</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Drains Heat and accumulation from the interior</summary>
      <indication>Constipation or no bowel movement, or else burning diarrhea or watery rectal discharge</indication>
      <indication>Hard focal distension of the epigastrium</indication>
      <indication>Asthma</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Harmonizes the Stomach and stops vomiting</summary>
      <indication>Nausea and vomiting that keeps on and does not settle</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Softens the Liver and eases abdominal spasm</summary>
      <indication>Pain and fullness of the epigastrium and upper abdomen</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Acute gastroenteritis</indication>
      <indication>Gastrointestinal flu</indication>
      <indication>Gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Sour stomach</indication>
      <indication>Gastric ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Duodenal ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Peptic ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Perforating ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Gastroptosis</indication>
      <indication>Indigestion</indication>
      <indication>Anorexia</indication>
      <indication>Nausea and vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Constipation</indication>
      <indication>Intestinal obstruction</indication>
      <indication>Dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Hernia</indication>
      <indication>Hemorrhoids</indication>
      <indication>Cholecystitis</indication>
      <indication>Cholelithiasis and biliary stones</indication>
      <indication>Gallstone or hepatobiliary pain</indication>
      <indication>Biliary ascariasis</indication>
      <indication>Jaundice</indication>
      <indication>Acute icteric hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Viral hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Fatty liver</indication>
      <indication>Acute pancreatitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic pancreatitis</indication>
      <indication>Pleurisy</indication>
      <indication>Peritonitis</indication>
      <indication>Fever</indication>
      <indication>Malaria</indication>
      <indication>Enteric fever</indication>
      <indication>Scarlet fever</indication>
      <indication>Acute tonsillitis</indication>
      <indication>Otitis media</indication>
      <indication>Tinnitus</indication>
      <indication>Impaired hearing</indication>
      <indication>Meniere&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Red eyes</indication>
      <indication>Headache</indication>
      <indication>Migraine</indication>
      <indication>Trigeminal neuralgia</indication>
      <indication>Intercostal neuralgia</indication>
      <indication>Low back pain</indication>
      <indication>Asthma</indication>
      <indication>Malignant hypertension</indication>
      <indication>Arteriosclerosis</indication>
      <indication>Coronary heart disease</indication>
      <indication>Stroke</indication>
      <indication>Hyperlipidemia</indication>
      <indication>Hyperglycemia</indication>
      <indication>Diabetes</indication>
      <indication>Obesity</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>chai hu</herb>
    <herb>huang qin</herb>
    <herb>zhi shi</herb>
    <herb>da huang</herb>
    <herb>Bai Shao</herb>
    <herb>ban xia</herb>
    <herb>sheng jiang</herb>
    <herb>da zao</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
