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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">qing dan xie huo tang</name>
    <name type="english">Clear the Gallbladder and Drain the Fire Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Heat from Organs</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Spreads Liver Qi and unblocks the interior</summary>
      <indication>Stagnant Heat in the Liver and Gallbladder</indication>
      <indication>Recurrent, severe colicky pain under the right ribs, which may spread to the shoulder and upper back</indication>
      <indication>Fever and chills that come and go in turn</indication>
      <indication>Bitter taste, with a dry mouth and throat</indication>
      <indication>Distended abdomen</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Resolves Dampness</summary>
      <indication>Tongue red with a dry yellow coat; pulse wiry and rapid, wiry, slippery and rapid, or flooding and rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Acute cholecystitis</indication>
      <indication>Cholelithiasis</indication>
      <indication>Jaundice</indication>
      <indication>Acute pancreatitis</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>chai hu</herb>
    <herb>huang qin</herb>
    <herb>ban xia</herb>
    <herb>yin chen hao</herb>
    <herb>zhi zi</herb>
    <herb>long dan cao</herb>
    <herb>yu jin</herb>
    <herb>mu xiang</herb>
    <herb>da huang</herb>
    <herb>mang xiao</herb>
  </constituents>
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