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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">hou po qi qu tang</name>
    <name type="english">Seven-Substance Decoction with Magnolia Bark</name>
  </names>
  <category>Harmonize Lesser Yang Stage Disorders</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Expels Wind from the Exterior and the muscle layer</summary>
      <indication>Tai Yang and Yang Ming disease with Interior excess</indication>
      <indication>Fever</indication>
      <indication>Pulse floating and rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Regulates Qi and promotes bowel movement</summary>
      <indication>Fullness and distension of the abdomen</indication>
      <indication>Constipation, including habitual constipation, with tenesmus</indication>
      <indication>Vomiting</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Gastroenteritis</indication>
      <indication>Peritonitis</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>hou po</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
    <herb>da huang</herb>
    <herb>zhi shi</herb>
    <herb>gui zhi</herb>
    <herb>sheng jiang</herb>
    <herb>da zao</herb>
  </constituents>
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