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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">xian fang huo ming yin</name>
    <name type="english">Sublime Formula for Sustaining Life</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear heat and Relieve Toxicity</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat and eliminates toxins</summary>
      <indication>Early-stage Yang-type sores, carbuncles and abscesses, before they come to a head or burst</indication>
      <indication>Toxic Heat with stagnant Qi and Blood, or with Phlegm-Fire</indication>
      <indication>Red, hot, swollen and painful lesion with burning or throbbing pain</indication>
      <indication>Early on, chills and fever may be present</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red, often most visibly underneath, or normal, with a thin coat, white or yellow; pulse forceful and rapid, or slippery and rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Invigorates the Blood and stops pain</summary>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Reduces swelling and softens hardness</summary>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Carbuncles</indication>
      <indication>Furuncles</indication>
      <indication>Boils</indication>
      <indication>Sores</indication>
      <indication>Cellulitis</indication>
      <indication>Suppurative dermatitis</indication>
      <indication>Pustulosis</indication>
      <indication>Acne</indication>
      <indication>Psoriasis</indication>
      <indication>Infected wounds</indication>
      <indication>Localized purulent lesions</indication>
      <indication>Internal abscesses</indication>
      <indication>Breast abscess</indication>
      <indication>Mastitis</indication>
      <indication>Acute mastitis</indication>
      <indication>Stye</indication>
      <indication>Tonsillitis</indication>
      <indication>Peritonsillar abscess</indication>
      <indication>Purulent otitis media</indication>
      <indication>Acute appendicitis</indication>
      <indication>Anal sinusitis</indication>
      <indication>Pelvic inflammatory disease</indication>
      <indication>Cervicitis</indication>
      <indication>Vaginitis</indication>
      <indication>Genital eruptions</indication>
      <indication>Thrombophlebitis</indication>
      <indication>Osteomyelitis</indication>
      <indication>Osteoradionecrosis</indication>
      <indication>Pneumonia</indication>
      <indication>Reflux esophagitis</indication>
      <indication>Peptic ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Ulcerative colitis</indication>
      <indication>Dysenteric disorders</indication>
      <indication>Post-herpetic neuralgia</indication>
      <indication>Liver cancer</indication>
      <indication>Tumors</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>jin yin hua</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
    <herb>zhe bei mu</herb>
    <herb>tian hua fen</herb>
    <herb>dang gui</herb>
    <herb>chi shao</herb>
    <herb>ru xiang</herb>
    <herb>mo yao</herb>
    <herb>fang feng</herb>
    <herb>bai zhi</herb>
    <herb>chuan shan jia</herb>
    <herb>zao jiao ci</herb>
    <herb>chen pi</herb>
  </constituents>
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