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  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">nei shu huang lian tang</name>
    <name type="english">Internal Dispersing Decoction with Coptis</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear heat and Relieve Toxicity</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat and resolves toxicity</summary>
      <indication>Abscesses from interior Heat</indication>
      <indication>Swelling without any change in skin colour</indication>
      <indication>Fever, irritability and thirst</indication>
      <indication>Headache with ringing in the head</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Invigorates Blood, reduces swelling and relieves pain</summary>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Unblocks the bowels</summary>
      <indication>Abdominal fullness with vomiting or retching</indication>
      <indication>Constipation with scanty, reddish urine</indication>
      <indication>Tongue reddish; coat yellow and turbid; pulse deep and excess</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Headache</indication>
      <indication>Jaundice</indication>
      <indication>Liver abscess</indication>
      <indication>Lung abscess</indication>
      <indication>Mastitis</indication>
      <indication>Dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Brain ringing</indication>
      <indication>Appendicitis</indication>
      <indication>Cellulitis</indication>
      <indication>Lymphadenitis</indication>
      <indication>Acute cholecystitis</indication>
      <indication>Constipation</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>huang lian</herb>
    <herb>huang qin</herb>
    <herb>zhi zi</herb>
    <herb>lian qiao</herb>
    <herb>bo he</herb>
    <herb>jie geng</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
    <herb>dang gui</herb>
    <herb>Bai Shao</herb>
    <herb>mu xiang</herb>
    <herb>bing lang</herb>
    <herb>da huang</herb>
  </constituents>
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