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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">ting li da zao xie fei tang</name>
    <name type="english">Descruainia and Jujube Decoction Drain the Lungs</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Heat from Organs</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Drains the Lungs and moves fluids</summary>
      <indication>Lung abscess with Phlegm obstructing the Lungs</indication>
      <indication>Cough and wheezing with shortness of breath and a full, distended chest</indication>
      <indication>Copious Phlegm and saliva</indication>
      <indication>Puffiness of the face and eyes, with generalised edema, scanty urination or difficult urination</indication>
      <indication>Blocked nose with a clear, watery discharge and loss of smell and taste</indication>
      <indication>Poor sleep</indication>
      <indication>Tongue swollen with a greasy white coat; pulse slippery</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Expels Phlegm, stops cough and calms wheezing</summary>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Lung abscess</indication>
      <indication>Pulmonary gangrene</indication>
      <indication>Putrid bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Asthmatic bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Bronchial asthma</indication>
      <indication>Emphysema</indication>
      <indication>COPD</indication>
      <indication>Pleuritis</indication>
      <indication>Cough</indication>
      <indication>Dyspnea</indication>
      <indication>Blocked nose with a clear discharge</indication>
      <indication>Anosmia</indication>
      <indication>Ageusia</indication>
      <indication>Congestive heart failure</indication>
      <indication>Cardiac edema</indication>
      <indication>Coronary heart disease</indication>
      <indication>Generalised superficial edema</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>ting li zi</herb>
    <herb>da zao</herb>
  </constituents>
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