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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">qing qi hua tan wan</name>
    <name type="english">Clear the Qi and Transform Phlegm Pill</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Heat and Transform Phlegm</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat</summary>
      <indication>Phlegm-Heat congesting the Lungs or blocking the Middle Jiao</indication>
      <indication>Possibly chills and fever</indication>
      <indication>Dry mouth or throat, constipation and scanty dark urine</indication>
      <indication>Tongue scarlet or red with a yellow coat that may be greasy or smooth; pulse rapid, rapid and smooth, or slippery and rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Transforms Phlegm</summary>
      <indication>Heavy productive cough with a lot of thick, sticky yellow or yellow-green sputum that is hard to bring up, or foul pus flecked with blood as in lung abscess</indication>
      <indication>Coughing fits hard enough to cause vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Nausea with fullness and distension of the epigastrium</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Directs Qi downward and stops cough</summary>
      <indication>Fast, laboured breathing with a harsh voice, dyspnea and wheezing</indication>
      <indication>Fullness, distension or oppression of the chest and diaphragm, with chest pain and pain in the ribs</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Hemoptysis</indication>
      <indication>Cough</indication>
      <indication>Pneumonia</indication>
      <indication>Emphysema</indication>
      <indication>Chronic tracheitis</indication>
      <indication>Oliguria</indication>
      <indication>Asthma</indication>
      <indication>Nausea</indication>
      <indication>Impotence</indication>
      <indication>Palpitations</indication>
      <indication>Constipation</indication>
      <indication>Acute and chronic bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Upper respiratory tract infection</indication>
      <indication>Bronchiectasis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic rhinitis</indication>
      <indication>Sinusitis</indication>
      <indication>COPD, as an adjunct during flare-ups</indication>
      <indication>Fever</indication>
      <indication>Prostatic hypertrophy</indication>
      <indication>Cervical lymphadenopathy</indication>
      <indication>Dyspnea</indication>
      <indication>AIDS/HIV</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>dan nan xing</herb>
    <herb>ban xia</herb>
    <herb>gua lou ren</herb>
    <herb>huang qin</herb>
    <herb>chen pi</herb>
    <herb>xing ren</herb>
    <herb>zhi shi</herb>
    <herb>fu ling</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
