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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">qing shi hua tan tang</name>
    <name type="english">Clear Dampness and Transform Phlegm Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Dry Dampness and Expel Phlegm</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Phlegm-Damp from the channels</summary>
      <indication>Phlegm-Damp in the channels; Tan Yin (Phlegm-fluids)</indication>
      <indication>Aching joints and body, with pain that moves around the whole body</indication>
      <indication>Stiff shoulders, numb limbs, or paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Tight chest and back, with an icy cold feeling in the middle and upper back</indication>
      <indication>Cough and stridor</indication>
      <indication>Lumps on the shoulder or neck</indication>
      <indication>Tongue normal with a thin, frothy coat; pulse deep and slippery</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Arthralgia</indication>
      <indication>Muscular rheumatism</indication>
      <indication>Pain of the whole body</indication>
      <indication>Shoulder stiffness</indication>
      <indication>Numbness in the limbs</indication>
      <indication>Paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Chest pain</indication>
      <indication>Intercostal neuralgia</indication>
      <indication>Cough</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal distension</indication>
      <indication>Lymphadenitis</indication>
      <indication>Lymphoedema</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>ban xia</herb>
    <herb>fu ling</herb>
    <herb>cang zhu</herb>
    <herb>tian nan xing</herb>
    <herb>huang qin</herb>
    <herb>chen pi</herb>
    <herb>qiang huo</herb>
    <herb>bai jie zi</herb>
    <herb>bai zhi</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
    <herb>sheng jiang</herb>
    <herb>gan jiang</herb>
  </constituents>
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