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  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">san ren tang</name>
    <name type="english">Three Nut Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Damp Heat</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Opens and moves Qi through the three burners</summary>
      <indication>Early-stage Damp-Warmth or Damp-Heat in which Damp predominates, at the Wei or Qi level</indication>
      <indication>Summerheat with Damp; Heat in the Upper Jiao</indication>
      <indication>Stifling feeling in the chest, fullness of chest and abdomen, and loss of appetite</indication>
      <indication>Nausea</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Damp-Heat</summary>
      <indication>Low fever worse in the afternoon that lingers and does not break with sweating</indication>
      <indication>Headache with a heavy head, as if wrapped; heavy, aching body; tiredness</indication>
      <indication>Chills or dislike of cold</indication>
      <indication>No thirst, or thirst without wanting to drink</indication>
      <indication>Sallow, pale yellow complexion</indication>
      <indication>Tongue normal with a white or greasy white coat; pulse wiry, thin and soggy, or soft, or floating and soft</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Fever of unknown origin</indication>
      <indication>Postoperative fever</indication>
      <indication>Undulant fever and brucellosis</indication>
      <indication>Typhoid and enteric fever</indication>
      <indication>Rheumatic fever</indication>
      <indication>Influenza</indication>
      <indication>Sunstroke</indication>
      <indication>Altitude stress</indication>
      <indication>Morning sickness</indication>
      <indication>Nausea</indication>
      <indication>Anorexia</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal fullness and distention</indication>
      <indication>Gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Gastroenteritis</indication>
      <indication>Colitis</indication>
      <indication>Bacillary dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Biliary ascariasis</indication>
      <indication>Cholecystitis</indication>
      <indication>Hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Hernia</indication>
      <indication>Urinary irritation</indication>
      <indication>Pyelonephritis and pyelitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic glomerulonephritis</indication>
      <indication>Oliguria</indication>
      <indication>Priapism</indication>
      <indication>Impotence</indication>
      <indication>Chronic bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Pneumonia</indication>
      <indication>Cardiopulmonary diseases</indication>
      <indication>Otitis media</indication>
      <indication>Nasal pain</indication>
      <indication>Lymphadenitis</indication>
      <indication>Arthritis</indication>
      <indication>Middle back pain</indication>
      <indication>Restless leg syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Headache</indication>
      <indication>Dizziness and vertigo</indication>
      <indication>Obesity with dizziness</indication>
      <indication>Epilepsy</indication>
      <indication>Diabetes</indication>
      <indication>Chronic fatigue syndrome, myalgic encephalomyelitis and fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Epstein-Barr virus syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Spontaneous perspiration</indication>
      <indication>Poor eyesight in HIV/AIDS</indication>
      <indication>Cataracts with excessive tearing</indication>
      <indication>Damp-Heat skin conditions</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>xing ren</herb>
    <herb>bai dou kou</herb>
    <herb>hou po</herb>
    <herb>ban xia</herb>
    <herb>yi yi ren</herb>
    <herb>tong cao</herb>
    <herb>dan zhu ye</herb>
    <herb>hua shi</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
