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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">fang feng tong sheng san</name>
    <name type="english">Ledebouriella Powder that Sagely Unblocks</name>
  </names>
  <category>Formulas that Release Exterior - Interior Excess</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Disperses Wind and releases the Exterior</summary>
      <indication>Wind-Heat in the Exterior that has not cleared, together with excess Heat or Fire in the Interior, so both sets of signs appear at once</indication>
      <indication>Heat affecting Tai Yang, Yang Ming and Shao Yin together</indication>
      <indication>Fever with chills, marked aversion to cold, headache, dizziness and vertigo</indication>
      <indication>Heavy head</indication>
      <indication>Blocked, infected nose with thick, sticky nasal mucus and saliva</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red with a white coat, or a yellow greasy or yellow dry coat; pulse floating, slippery and rapid (at times also wiry or overflowing), or flooding and rapid, or wiry and slippery, and forceful</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Drains Heat and clears Fire toxin</summary>
      <indication>High fever, restlessness and manic behaviour</indication>
      <indication>Red, sore, painful eyes</indication>
      <indication>Sore, red, swollen throat with difficulty swallowing</indication>
      <indication>Bitter taste, dry mouth, and sores of the mouth and tongue</indication>
      <indication>Cough and laboured breathing</indication>
      <indication>Skin eruptions from Wind-Heat toxin: carbuncles, boils, heat rash, acne, urticaria, itchy or inflamed rashes, broken or ulcerated skin</indication>
      <indication>Extreme Heat can stir internal Wind, shown by clenched fists and a stiff tongue</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Unblocks the bowels and drains Heat through the urine</summary>
      <indication>Constipation</indication>
      <indication>Dark, rough, scanty urination, or painful urination with reddish urine</indication>
      <indication>Tense abdomen with fullness of the abdomen and epigastrium</indication>
      <indication>Focal distention and a stifling feeling in the chest and diaphragm</indication>
      <indication>Obesity, stiff shoulders, numb limbs and fatigue</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Influenza</indication>
      <indication>Common cold, including with fever</indication>
      <indication>High fever</indication>
      <indication>Food poisoning</indication>
      <indication>Erysipelas</indication>
      <indication>Carbuncles</indication>
      <indication>Abscesses</indication>
      <indication>Furuncles</indication>
      <indication>Facial boils</indication>
      <indication>Sores</indication>
      <indication>Skin ruptures or ulcers</indication>
      <indication>Urticaria</indication>
      <indication>Dermatitis</indication>
      <indication>Eczema</indication>
      <indication>Psoriasis</indication>
      <indication>Scabies</indication>
      <indication>Acne</indication>
      <indication>Heat rash</indication>
      <indication>Acute cellulitis</indication>
      <indication>Lymphangitis, including acute</indication>
      <indication>Acute mastitis</indication>
      <indication>Mania</indication>
      <indication>Obesity</indication>
      <indication>Metabolic syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Hyperlipidemia</indication>
      <indication>Hypertension</indication>
      <indication>Arteriosclerosis</indication>
      <indication>Diabetes</indication>
      <indication>Cardiac disorders</indication>
      <indication>Cardiac asthma</indication>
      <indication>Asthma</indication>
      <indication>Dyspnea</indication>
      <indication>Apoplexy</indication>
      <indication>Beriberi</indication>
      <indication>Poliomyelitis</indication>
      <indication>Infectious mononucleosis</indication>
      <indication>Mumps</indication>
      <indication>Conjunctivitis</indication>
      <indication>Red eyes</indication>
      <indication>Eye pain</indication>
      <indication>Sore throat</indication>
      <indication>Tonsillitis</indication>
      <indication>Nasal suppuration</indication>
      <indication>Red nose</indication>
      <indication>Otitis media</indication>
      <indication>Otorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Ear pain</indication>
      <indication>Early-stage gingivitis</indication>
      <indication>Headache</indication>
      <indication>Migraine headache</indication>
      <indication>Dizziness</indication>
      <indication>Vertigo</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Chronic nephritis</indication>
      <indication>Habitual constipation</indication>
      <indication>Hemorrhoids</indication>
      <indication>Sciatica</indication>
      <indication>Arthritis</indication>
      <indication>Alopecia</indication>
      <indication>Alcoholism</indication>
      <indication>Hangover</indication>
      <indication>Infertility</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>fang feng</herb>
    <herb>ma huang</herb>
    <herb>da huang</herb>
    <herb>mang xiao</herb>
    <herb>jing jie</herb>
    <herb>bo he</herb>
    <herb>zhi zi</herb>
    <herb>hua shi</herb>
    <herb>shi gao</herb>
    <herb>lian qiao</herb>
    <herb>huang qin</herb>
    <herb>jie geng</herb>
    <herb>chuan xiong</herb>
    <herb>dang gui</herb>
    <herb>Bai Shao</herb>
    <herb>bai zhu</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
