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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">qin jiao bie jia san</name>
    <name type="english">Gentiana Qinjiao and Soft shelled Turtle</name>
  </names>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Nourishes Yin and Blood</summary>
      <indication>Wind consumption: a Wind invasion in someone with underlying Yin deficiency that was not successfully treated</indication>
      <indication>Exhaustion, lethargy and weak limbs</indication>
      <indication>Emaciation and brittle hair</indication>
      <indication>Dry mouth and throat</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears deficiency Heat and relieves steaming bones</summary>
      <indication>Heat from deficient Yin</indication>
      <indication>Steaming bones, tidal fever and a warm feeling in the afternoon</indication>
      <indication>Night sweats and heat in the five centres</indication>
      <indication>Red cheeks and red lips</indication>
      <indication>Cough with sticky yellow sputum, or sputum tinged with blood</indication>
      <indication>Insomnia</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red with little or no coat; pulse faint and rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Dispels Wind-Damp</summary>
      <indication>Chills alternating with fever</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Recovery stage of tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Recovery stage of pneumonia</indication>
      <indication>Recovery from chronic respiratory infection</indication>
      <indication>Chronic bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>COPD</indication>
      <indication>Cough</indication>
      <indication>Night sweating accompanying a high fever</indication>
      <indication>Fever of unknown origin</indication>
      <indication>Night sweats</indication>
      <indication>Insomnia</indication>
      <indication>HIV/AIDS</indication>
      <indication>Lupus erythematosus</indication>
      <indication>Aplastic anemia</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>chai hu</herb>
    <herb>bie jia</herb>
    <herb>di gu pi</herb>
    <herb>qin jiao</herb>
    <herb>dang gui</herb>
    <herb>zhi mu</herb>
  </constituents>
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