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  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <licence>Free to use and republish with visible attribution and a link back to the source page. The catalogue is a reference work and is knowingly incomplete; nothing in it is medical advice.</licence>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">sang dan xie bai tang</name>
    <name type="english">Mulberry Leaf and Moutan Decoction to Drainthe White</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Heat from Organs</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears the Liver</summary>
      <indication>Liver Fire burning the Lung</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red and rather dry with little or no coat; pulse wiry and rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Drains Heat from and protects the Lungs</summary>
      <indication>Cough that hurts the chest and flanks, so the trunk cannot bend or twist</indication>
      <indication>Coughing of blood or blood-streaked sputum in some cases</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Cough</indication>
      <indication>Pleurisy</indication>
      <indication>Pertussis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic chest infection</indication>
      <indication>Upper respiratory tract infection</indication>
      <indication>Acute and chronic tonsillitis</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>sang bai pi</herb>
    <herb>sang ye</herb>
    <herb>di gu pi</herb>
    <herb>mu dan pi</herb>
    <herb>zhu ru</herb>
    <herb>chuan bei mu</herb>
    <herb>geng mi</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
    <herb>da zao</herb>
  </constituents>
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