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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">lian po yin</name>
    <name type="english">Coptis and Magnolia Bark Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Damp Heat</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat and transforms Damp</summary>
      <indication>Damp-Heat lodged in the Middle Jiao, with Damp and Heat about equal</indication>
      <indication>Sudden turmoil disorder: sudden vomiting together with foul, watery diarrhoea</indication>
      <indication>Summerheat with Damp; Phlegm-Fire</indication>
      <indication>Restlessness and irritability, bitter taste, thirst without much wish to drink</indication>
      <indication>Scanty, dark urine, possibly reddish</indication>
      <indication>Yellow, greasy tongue coat on a normal tongue; pulse slippery and rapid, or smooth and wiry</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Regulates Qi and harmonises the Middle Jiao</summary>
      <indication>Focal distension with a stifling feeling in the chest and epigastrium</indication>
      <indication>Sour regurgitation, poor appetite, abdominal pain and tiredness</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Acute gastroenteritis</indication>
      <indication>Viral enteritis</indication>
      <indication>Stomach influenza</indication>
      <indication>Salmonella food poisoning</indication>
      <indication>Bacterial dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Typhoid</indication>
      <indication>Paratyphoid</indication>
      <indication>Acute gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Superficial gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Helicobacter pylori gastritis, in modified forms</indication>
      <indication>Peptic ulcers</indication>
      <indication>Duodenal ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Acid reflux</indication>
      <indication>Nausea and vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Chronic colitis</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal fullness and distention</indication>
      <indication>Anorexia</indication>
      <indication>Parasites</indication>
      <indication>Infectious hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Cholecystitis</indication>
      <indication>Oliguria</indication>
      <indication>Fever</indication>
      <indication>Night sweats</indication>
      <indication>Sweating of the hands and feet</indication>
      <indication>Asthma</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Chronic fatigue syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Myalgic encephalomyelitis</indication>
      <indication>Epstein-Barr virus syndrome</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>huang lian</herb>
    <herb>hou po</herb>
    <herb>zhi zi</herb>
    <herb>dan dou chi</herb>
    <herb>shi chang pu</herb>
    <herb>ban xia</herb>
    <herb>lu gen</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
