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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">gui ling gan lu yin</name>
    <name type="english">Cinnamon and Poria Sweet Dew Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Relieve Summer Heat</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Summerheat and Heat</summary>
      <indication>Summerheat combined with Damp and water held inside, blocking the Qi mechanism and the water passages</indication>
      <indication>Fever, headache, irritability and strong thirst with a wish to drink</indication>
      <indication>Signs appear in the summer months</indication>
      <indication>Severe cases: sudden vomiting and diarrhoea at the same time in hot weather (sudden turmoil disorder, huoluan)</indication>
      <indication>Children in summer with vomiting, diarrhoea or fright Wind</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red with a smooth white coat; pulse rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Regulates Qi and resolves Dampness</summary>
      <indication>Scanty, difficult and painful urination; urine yellow or reddish</indication>
      <indication>Fullness, pain or a stifling feeling in the abdomen</indication>
      <indication>Foul-smelling vaginal discharge</indication>
      <indication>Dull, grimy-looking complexion</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Acute gastroenteritis</indication>
      <indication>Heat stroke</indication>
      <indication>Heat exhaustion</indication>
      <indication>Cholera</indication>
      <indication>Dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Infantile diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain</indication>
      <indication>Headache</indication>
      <indication>Fever</indication>
      <indication>Kidney stones</indication>
      <indication>Urethritis</indication>
      <indication>Vaginal discharge</indication>
      <indication>Thrush</indication>
      <indication>Allergy</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>hua shi</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
    <herb>shi gao</herb>
    <herb>han shui shi</herb>
    <herb>guan gui</herb>
    <herb>zhu ling</herb>
    <herb>fu ling</herb>
    <herb>ze xie</herb>
    <herb>bai zhu</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
