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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">sheng ma ge gen tang</name>
    <name type="english">Cimicifuga and Kudzu Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Release Exterior Wind Heat</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Releases Wind-Heat from the exterior and the muscle layer</summary>
      <indication>Early stage of a warm febrile disease, with externally contracted Heat gathering in the Lung and Stomach</indication>
      <indication>Fever and chills with a dislike of wind, headache and aching all over</indication>
      <indication>Sneezing and cough, red and watery eyes, and thirst</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red and dry; pulse floating and rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Vents rashes</summary>
      <indication>Measles in its first stage, or a rash that is slow, patchy or uneven in reaching the surface</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Measles</indication>
      <indication>Early viral rashes in children that have not fully erupted</indication>
      <indication>Scarlet fever</indication>
      <indication>Chicken pox</indication>
      <indication>Herpes zoster</indication>
      <indication>Herpes simplex</indication>
      <indication>Influenza</indication>
      <indication>Headache</indication>
      <indication>Fever</indication>
      <indication>Chills</indication>
      <indication>Cough</indication>
      <indication>Sore throat</indication>
      <indication>Tonsillitis</indication>
      <indication>Epistaxis</indication>
      <indication>Bleeding into the eye (hemophthalmia)</indication>
      <indication>Red eyes</indication>
      <indication>Skin diseases</indication>
      <indication>Boils</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>sheng ma</herb>
    <herb>ge gen</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
    <herb>chi shao</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
