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Releases the Exterior and scatters Cold

Summertime damage from cold (Yin summerheat): wind and cold caught in hot weather, from drafts, cold food and drink or air conditioning while sweating Chills and fever with no sweating, skin warm to the touch, headache, and a heavy, aching head and body Aversion to cold, tired limbs and lethargy

Transforms Damp and harmonizes the Middle Jiao

Damp-Cold blocking the Spleen and Stomach: stifling fullness of the chest and epigastrium, abdominal pain, poor appetite, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea Tongue pink with a thick, white greasy coat; pulse floating, sometimes floating and soggy

Modern uses

Common cold and summer flu Influenza Fever Headache Heat stroke Acute gastroenteritis Bacillary dysentery Enteric cholera Diarrhea Nausea and vomiting Indigestion Abdominal pain Anorexia Fatigue Acute tonsillitis Encephalitis B Hypokalemia xiang ru bai bian dou hou po