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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">ke xue fang</name>
    <name type="english">Coughing of Blood Formula</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Heat and Stop Bleeding</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Liver Fire and cools the Blood</summary>
      <indication>Liver Fire attacking and scorching the Lungs</indication>
      <indication>Coughing up thick, sticky sputum streaked with blood</indication>
      <indication>Irritability, fidgeting and short temper</indication>
      <indication>Stabbing pain of the chest and rib-side</indication>
      <indication>Red cheeks, a bitter taste or dry throat, and constipation</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red with a yellow coat; pulse wiry and rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Dissolves Phlegm, astringes the Lungs and stops coughing</summary>
      <indication>Sputum hard to bring up that sticks in the throat</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Cough</indication>
      <indication>Hemoptysis</indication>
      <indication>Pulmonary tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Tracheitis</indication>
      <indication>Acute bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Hypertension</indication>
      <indication>Lung cancer</indication>
      <indication>Acute tonsillitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic tonsillitis</indication>
      <indication>Pneumonia</indication>
      <indication>Pleurisy</indication>
      <indication>Bronchiectasis</indication>
      <indication>Pertussis</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>qing dai</herb>
    <herb>zhi zi</herb>
    <herb>gua lou ren</herb>
    <herb>fu hai shi</herb>
    <herb>he zi</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
