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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">ge gen jia ban xia tang</name>
    <name type="english">kudzu decoction plus Pinella</name>
  </names>
  <category>Formulas that Release Exterior Disorders with Head and Neck Symptoms</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Releases Wind-Cold from the Exterior and the muscle layer</summary>
      <indication>Combined Tai Yang-Yang Ming disorder; or a Tai Yang disorder that brings vomiting without diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Chills and fever without sweating, with dislike of wind and cold</indication>
      <indication>Headache, stuffy nose, swollen mucous membranes and sensitivity to dust</indication>
      <indication>Tongue normal with a thin white coat; pulse floating and tight</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Generates fluids and relieves aching of the neck muscles</summary>
      <indication>Stiff, rigid neck, shoulders and upper back with muscle spasms</indication>
      <indication>Wind-Cold Bi in only a few joints, with inflammation and pain that is intense but brief and shifts over days or weeks</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Stops vomiting</summary>
      <indication>Vomiting</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Common cold</indication>
      <indication>Influenza</indication>
      <indication>Upper respiratory tract infection</indication>
      <indication>Stomach flu</indication>
      <indication>Fever</indication>
      <indication>Pneumonia</indication>
      <indication>Bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Tonsillitis</indication>
      <indication>Scarlet fever</indication>
      <indication>Rubella</indication>
      <indication>Early-stage poliomyelitis</indication>
      <indication>Early-stage encephalitis</indication>
      <indication>Meningitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic pediatric diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Nausea and vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Acute cervical myositis</indication>
      <indication>Stiff neck</indication>
      <indication>Stiff shoulders</indication>
      <indication>Stiff upper back</indication>
      <indication>Frozen shoulder</indication>
      <indication>Tendinitis of shoulder</indication>
      <indication>Bursitis of shoulder</indication>
      <indication>Forty-year wrists</indication>
      <indication>Fifty-year shoulders</indication>
      <indication>Painful obstruction</indication>
      <indication>Arthritis</indication>
      <indication>Neuralgia</indication>
      <indication>Lumbago</indication>
      <indication>Allergic rhinitis</indication>
      <indication>Stuffy nose</indication>
      <indication>Otitis media</indication>
      <indication>Otitis externa</indication>
      <indication>Keratitis</indication>
      <indication>Conjunctivitis</indication>
      <indication>Trachoma</indication>
      <indication>Hordeolum</indication>
      <indication>Urticaria</indication>
      <indication>Eczema</indication>
      <indication>Furuncles</indication>
      <indication>Boils</indication>
      <indication>Lymphadenitis</indication>
      <indication>Mastitis</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>ge gen</herb>
    <herb>ma huang</herb>
    <herb>gui zhi</herb>
    <herb>Bai Shao</herb>
    <herb>sheng jiang</herb>
    <herb>da zao</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
    <herb>ban xia</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
