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  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">liu yi san</name>
    <name type="english">Six to One Powder</name>
  </names>
  <category>Relieve Summer Heat</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Summerheat</summary>
      <indication>Summerheat with Damp, especially in hot weather</indication>
      <indication>Fever, sweating, thirst, irritability and fidgeting</indication>
      <indication>Tongue normal or red with a thin, greasy yellow coat; pulse soggy and rapid, or forceful and rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Resolves Damp by promoting urination</summary>
      <indication>Heavy body and limbs; nausea, vomiting, and summer diarrhoea or loose watery stools</indication>
      <indication>Damp-Heat pouring down into the Bladder: scanty, dark or reddish urine</indication>
      <indication>Lin syndrome: difficult, painful urination, including pain from urinary stones</indication>
      <indication>Damp-Heat skin conditions with papules and sores</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Tonifies Qi</summary>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Upper respiratory tract infection</indication>
      <indication>Urinary tract infection</indication>
      <indication>Urolithiasis</indication>
      <indication>Prickly heat</indication>
      <indication>Cystitis</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Allergy</indication>
      <indication>Infantile diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Oliguria</indication>
      <indication>Furuncles</indication>
      <indication>Eczema</indication>
      <indication>Summer fevers</indication>
      <indication>Urethritis</indication>
      <indication>Acute gastroenteritis</indication>
      <indication>Sunstroke</indication>
      <indication>Stomach flu</indication>
      <indication>Pertussis</indication>
      <indication>Nephrolithiasis</indication>
      <indication>Organophosphorus pesticide poisoning</indication>
      <indication>Kidney failure</indication>
      <indication>Heat-related fatigue with thirst in hot weather</indication>
      <indication>Summer diarrhea</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>hua shi</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
  </constituents>
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