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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">liu shen wan</name>
    <name type="english">Six Miracle Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear heat and Relieve Toxicity</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat and relieves toxicity</summary>
      <indication>Acute, local Heat-toxin of the throat or skin</indication>
      <indication>Wind-Heat attacking the Lungs on top of Heat in the Spleen and Stomach, giving pustular tonsillitis (Phlegm-Fire)</indication>
      <indication>Sudden, severe sore throat that is red and swollen, with difficulty swallowing</indication>
      <indication>Infants with convulsions from high fever</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red with a greasy yellow coat; pulse rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Reduces swelling and relieves pain</summary>
      <indication>Early boils, furuncles, carbuncles and abscesses; erysipelas; acute local infection</indication>
      <indication>Red streaks of lymphangitis, or swollen, tender lymph nodes, including mumps</indication>
      <indication>Sores of the mouth or tongue</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Acute tonsillitis</indication>
      <indication>Acute laryngitis</indication>
      <indication>Pustular tonsillitis, one or both sides</indication>
      <indication>Acute pharyngitis</indication>
      <indication>Aphthous stomatitis</indication>
      <indication>Lymphangitis</indication>
      <indication>Wound septicemia</indication>
      <indication>Acute hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Asthma</indication>
      <indication>Boils</indication>
      <indication>Early rheumatoid arthritis of Heat Bi type</indication>
      <indication>Angina</indication>
      <indication>Cellulitis</indication>
      <indication>Leukemia</indication>
      <indication>Appendicitis</indication>
      <indication>Bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>High fever</indication>
      <indication>Loss of voice</indication>
      <indication>Rheumatic fever</indication>
      <indication>Influenza</indication>
      <indication>Periodontitis</indication>
      <indication>Carbuncles</indication>
      <indication>Furuncles</indication>
      <indication>Abscesses</indication>
      <indication>Diphtheria</indication>
      <indication>Scarlet fever</indication>
      <indication>Breast abscesses</indication>
      <indication>Follicular stomatitis</indication>
      <indication>Mastitis</indication>
      <indication>Nasopharyngeal carcinoma</indication>
      <indication>Lung cancer</indication>
      <indication>Nasopharyngeal cancer</indication>
      <indication>Herpes zoster</indication>
      <indication>Nephritis</indication>
      <indication>Vaginitis</indication>
      <indication>Otitis media</indication>
      <indication>Pulpitis</indication>
      <indication>Osteoarthritis</indication>
      <indication>Sore throat</indication>
      <indication>Common cold</indication>
      <indication>Erysipelas</indication>
      <indication>Mumps</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>niu huang</herb>
    <herb>zhen zhu</herb>
    <herb>chan su</herb>
    <herb>xiong huang</herb>
    <herb>bing pian</herb>
    <herb>she xiang</herb>
  </constituents>
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