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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">ge gen huang lian huang qin tang</name>
    <name type="chinese">葛根黃蓮黃苓湯</name>
    <name type="english">Kudzu Coptis and Scutellaria Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Formulas that Release Exterior - Interior Excess</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Releases the Exterior</summary>
      <indication>A Tai Yang disorder wrongly purged, so the pathogen moves inward while fever and sweating carry on</indication>
      <indication>Exterior Heat that lingers alongside Damp-Heat in the intestines or Lower Jiao</indication>
      <indication>Fever with sweating that continues after the diarrhea starts</indication>
      <indication>Back of the neck stiff and spasming</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat from the Yang Ming and the interior</summary>
      <indication>Irritable, with a hot feeling in chest and epigastrium and a focal fullness below the heart</indication>
      <indication>Thirst and a dry mouth</indication>
      <indication>Gasping or wheezing, breathlessness with sweating, and palpitations</indication>
      <indication>Urine that may be tinged red</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red with a yellow, possibly greasy coat; pulse rapid, and forceful or slippery</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Raises Yang to stop diarrhea</summary>
      <indication>Diarrhea or dysentery, whether or not wind has invaded: sudden, urgent and forceful, foul-smelling, with anal burning and tenesmus</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Acute gastroenteritis</indication>
      <indication>Stomach flu</indication>
      <indication>Acute enteritis</indication>
      <indication>Acute colitis</indication>
      <indication>Ulcerative colitis</indication>
      <indication>Crohn&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Bacillary dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Amoebic dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>AIDS/HIV-related diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Salmonella poisoning</indication>
      <indication>Food allergy</indication>
      <indication>Fulminant dyspepsia</indication>
      <indication>Enteric fever</indication>
      <indication>Typhoid</indication>
      <indication>Fever</indication>
      <indication>Common cold</indication>
      <indication>Influenza</indication>
      <indication>Measles</indication>
      <indication>Poliomyelitis, including early-stage</indication>
      <indication>Encephalitis B</indication>
      <indication>Pneumonia</indication>
      <indication>Asthma</indication>
      <indication>Dyspnea and gasping</indication>
      <indication>Ephidrosis (perspiration)</indication>
      <indication>Heatstroke</indication>
      <indication>Hangover</indication>
      <indication>Rectal prolapse</indication>
      <indication>Stomach cancer</indication>
      <indication>Type 2 diabetes</indication>
      <indication>Diabetes</indication>
      <indication>Hypertension</indication>
      <indication>Coronary artery disease</indication>
      <indication>Cerebrovascular disease</indication>
      <indication>Stroke</indication>
      <indication>Cervical spine disease</indication>
      <indication>Perimenopausal syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Eczema</indication>
      <indication>Erysipelas</indication>
      <indication>Diaper dermatitis (diaper rash)</indication>
      <indication>Trachoma</indication>
      <indication>Lachrymal gland inflammation</indication>
      <indication>Conjunctivitis</indication>
      <indication>Ophthalmic disorders</indication>
      <indication>Toothache</indication>
      <indication>Periodontitis</indication>
      <indication>Stomatitis</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>ge gen</herb>
    <herb>huang qin</herb>
    <herb>huang lian</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
