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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">huang qin tang</name>
    <name type="english">Scutellaria Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Damp Heat</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat and stops dysentery and diarrhoea</summary>
      <indication>Damp-Heat dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Fever with a bitter taste in the mouth and headache</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhoea or dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red with a yellow coat; pulse rapid or flooding</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Harmonizes the Middle Jiao and stops pain</summary>
      <indication>Abdominal pain and cramping</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Amoebic and bacillary dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Acute colitis</indication>
      <indication>Acute enteritis</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhoea</indication>
      <indication>Tenesmus</indication>
      <indication>Indigestion</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal spasms</indication>
      <indication>Appendicitis</indication>
      <indication>Pelvic inflammatory disease</indication>
      <indication>Adnexitis</indication>
      <indication>Bleeding from menoplania</indication>
      <indication>Common cold</indication>
      <indication>Fever</indication>
      <indication>Spontaneous sweating</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>huang qin</herb>
    <herb>Bai Shao</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
    <herb>da zao</herb>
  </constituents>
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