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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">qing shu yi qi tang</name>
    <name type="english">Clear Summerheat and Augment the Qi Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Relieve Summer Heat</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Summerheat</summary>
      <indication>Summerheat that has injured the Qi and fluids</indication>
      <indication>High fever with heavy sweating</indication>
      <indication>Thirst for cold drinks, irritability and restlessness</indication>
      <indication>Dark, scanty urine</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Tonifies Qi and nourishes Yin</summary>
      <indication>Summerheat with deficiency of Yin, or of both Qi and Yin</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue with tired limbs, shortness of breath, apathy and low spirits</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale, or red and dry with little fluid; pulse deficient and rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Generates fluids</summary>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Heat stroke and heat exhaustion</indication>
      <indication>Hyperthermia</indication>
      <indication>Thermoplegia</indication>
      <indication>Dehydration and exhaustion states</indication>
      <indication>High fever</indication>
      <indication>Fever of unknown origin</indication>
      <indication>Fever in children</indication>
      <indication>Common cold in summer</indication>
      <indication>Convalescence from acute infectious disease</indication>
      <indication>Pneumonia</indication>
      <indication>Asthma</indication>
      <indication>Wheezing</indication>
      <indication>Dyspnoea</indication>
      <indication>Colitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic fatigue syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Weak limbs</indication>
      <indication>Anorexia</indication>
      <indication>Thirst</indication>
      <indication>Profuse sweating</indication>
      <indication>Dark, scanty urine</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>xi yang shen</herb>
    <herb>xi gua pi</herb>
    <herb>lian geng</herb>
    <herb>shi hu</herb>
    <herb>mai men dong</herb>
    <herb>dan zhu ye</herb>
    <herb>zhi mu</herb>
    <herb>huang lian</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
    <herb>geng mi</herb>
  </constituents>
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