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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">qing hao bie jia tang</name>
    <name type="english">Artemisia Annua and Soft shelled Turtle Shell Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Nourishes Yin</summary>
      <indication>Heat lingering in the Yin level from Yin deficiency, usually in the late stage of a warm-febrile disease</indication>
      <indication>Weight loss and emaciation after the illness, from used-up fluids and Yin</indication>
      <indication>Appetite unaffected</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Vents Heat from deficiency out of the interior</summary>
      <indication>Fever that comes on at night and falls by morning, with no sweating: the key sign that Heat is still hidden in the Yin</indication>
      <indication>Afternoon tidal fever</indication>
      <indication>Low-grade fever that persists after the acute phase of a warm-febrile disease has settled</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red with scanty coat; pulse thin and rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Low-grade fever in the recovery stage of infectious diseases, and late stages of infectious diseases</indication>
      <indication>Fever of unknown origin</indication>
      <indication>Fever from cancer</indication>
      <indication>Fever after surgery</indication>
      <indication>Fever in children, including summer fever</indication>
      <indication>Convalescence from typhoid fever</indication>
      <indication>Lupus erythematosus</indication>
      <indication>Hot flashes and menopausal symptoms</indication>
      <indication>AIDS/HIV</indication>
      <indication>Pulmonary tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Renal tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Consumptive fever (phthisis)</indication>
      <indication>Common cold</indication>
      <indication>Vertigo</indication>
      <indication>Chronic pyelonephritis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic nephritis</indication>
      <indication>Osteoarthritis</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>bie jia</herb>
    <herb>qing hao</herb>
    <herb>sheng di huang</herb>
    <herb>zhi mu</herb>
    <herb>mu dan pi</herb>
  </constituents>
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