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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">huang qin hua shi tang</name>
    <name type="english">Scutellaria and Talcum Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Damp Heat</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat and resolves Dampness</summary>
      <indication>Warm-Damp febrile disease in the Middle Jiao; Summerheat with Dampness</indication>
      <indication>Damp-Heat with Dampness and Heat evenly matched; the Dampness comes from undigested food that stagnates and turns to Heat</indication>
      <indication>Fever that seems to break with sweating and then comes back</indication>
      <indication>Aching, heavy body</indication>
      <indication>Little or no thirst, and scanty urine</indication>
      <indication>Grimy-looking face</indication>
      <indication>Tongue normal with a very moist, pale yellow coat; pulse soft and rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Rhinorrhoea</indication>
      <indication>Chronic sinusitis</indication>
      <indication>Typhoid fever</indication>
      <indication>Sunstroke</indication>
      <indication>Urinary tract infection</indication>
      <indication>Diabetes</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>huang qin</herb>
    <herb>hua shi</herb>
    <herb>fu ling pi</herb>
    <herb>da fu pi</herb>
    <herb>bai dou kou</herb>
    <herb>tong cao</herb>
    <herb>zhu ling</herb>
  </constituents>
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