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  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">da yuan yin</name>
    <name type="english">Reach the Membrane Source</name>
  </names>
  <category>Harmonize Lesser Yang Stage Disorders</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Opens and vents the membrane source (Mo Yuan)</summary>
      <indication>Pestilential warm-toxin Qi trapped at the membrane source, between exterior and interior</indication>
      <indication>Chills alternating with fever, or irregular bouts of fever that sometimes do not break</indication>
      <indication>Headache</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Breaks up turbid Damp</summary>
      <indication>Heavy body and limbs</indication>
      <indication>Oppressed, distended feeling in the chest and epigastrium</indication>
      <indication>Tongue with deep red edges and a thick, foul, pasty coat like dry flour paste; pulse wiry and rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat</summary>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Malaria</indication>
      <indication>Epidemic febrile disorders</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>cao guo</herb>
    <herb>hou po</herb>
    <herb>bing lang</herb>
    <herb>huang qin</herb>
    <herb>zhi mu</herb>
    <herb>Bai Shao</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
  </constituents>
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