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  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">hua gai san</name>
    <name type="english">Canopy Powder</name>
  </names>
  <category>Release Exterior Cold</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Disseminates Lung Qi and releases the Exterior</summary>
      <indication>Wind-Cold attacking the Lungs</indication>
      <indication>Headache, dizziness or vertigo, and stiffness of the neck and upper back</indication>
      <indication>Blocked, stuffy nose</indication>
      <indication>Pulse floating</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Expels Phlegm and stops cough</summary>
      <indication>Cough bringing up a lot of sputum</indication>
      <indication>Wheezing and difficult breathing</indication>
      <indication>Stuffy, oppressed feeling in the chest and diaphragm</indication>
      <indication>Restlessness and poor appetite</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Bronchial asthma</indication>
      <indication>Bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>COPD</indication>
      <indication>Upper respiratory tract infection</indication>
      <indication>Common cold</indication>
      <indication>Influenza</indication>
      <indication>Whooping cough in children</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>ma huang</herb>
    <herb>sang bai pi</herb>
    <herb>su zi</herb>
    <herb>xing ren</herb>
    <herb>chi fu ling</herb>
    <herb>chen pi</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
  </constituents>
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