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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">sha shen mai men dong tang</name>
    <name type="english">Glehnia and Ophiopogonis Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Gently Disperse and Moisten Dryness</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears and nourishes the Lungs and Stomach</summary>
      <indication>Yin deficiency of the Lungs and Stomach, or Dryness injuring both</indication>
      <indication>Atrophy (Wei) syndrome from Lung Heat with depleted fluids</indication>
      <indication>Hacking dry cough bringing up little sputum</indication>
      <indication>Low-grade fever and night sweats</indication>
      <indication>Epigastric pain</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Generates fluids and moistens Dryness</summary>
      <indication>Thirst with a dry throat</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red with little coat, possibly dry; pulse thin and rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Chronic bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Asthmatic bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Bronchiectasis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic cough</indication>
      <indication>Childhood cough and wheezing</indication>
      <indication>Pneumonia</indication>
      <indication>Upper respiratory tract infection</indication>
      <indication>COPD</indication>
      <indication>Silicosis</indication>
      <indication>Pulmonary tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Pharyngeal and laryngeal tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Pharyngitis</indication>
      <indication>Sore throat</indication>
      <indication>Chronic tonsillitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic laryngitis</indication>
      <indication>Late-stage measles in infants</indication>
      <indication>Lung cancer</indication>
      <indication>Esophageal cancer</indication>
      <indication>Stomach cancer</indication>
      <indication>Diabetes</indication>
      <indication>Thyroiditis</indication>
      <indication>Hyperthyroidism</indication>
      <indication>Nictitation</indication>
      <indication>Otitis media</indication>
      <indication>Conjunctivitis</indication>
      <indication>Atrophy (Wei) syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Myasthenia gravis</indication>
      <indication>Multiple sclerosis</indication>
      <indication>Polyneuritis</indication>
      <indication>Acute infectious multiple neuritis</indication>
      <indication>Guillain-Barre disease</indication>
      <indication>Acute myelitis</indication>
      <indication>Progressive muscular dystrophy</indication>
      <indication>Sequelae of poliomyelitis</indication>
      <indication>Hysterical paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Periodic paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Facial paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Nausea and vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Hiccup</indication>
      <indication>Dysphagia</indication>
      <indication>Reflux esophagitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Atrophic gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Peptic ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Gastric neurosis</indication>
      <indication>Anorexia</indication>
      <indication>Night sweats</indication>
      <indication>Sweating of the hands and feet</indication>
      <indication>Dry skin</indication>
      <indication>Fever</indication>
      <indication>Myalgic encephalomyelitis</indication>
      <indication>Epstein-Barr virus syndrome</indication>
      <indication>HIV/AIDS</indication>
      <indication>HIV/AIDS-related cough and asthma</indication>
      <indication>Neurosis</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>sha shen</herb>
    <herb>mai men dong</herb>
    <herb>yu zhu</herb>
    <herb>sang ye</herb>
    <herb>tian hua fen</herb>
    <herb>bai bian dou</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
