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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">xiao luo wan</name>
    <name type="english">Reduce Scrofula Pill</name>
  </names>
  <category>Transform Phlegm and Dissipate Nodules</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat and resolves Phlegm</summary>
      <indication>Phlegm-Fire binding into nodules, often on a background of Yin deficiency with empty Heat</indication>
      <indication>Dry mouth and throat, sometimes with a bitter taste</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red; pulse rapid, slippery or wiry</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Softens hardness and dissipates nodules</summary>
      <indication>Scrofula: firm, rubbery, usually painless lumps or chains of nodules in the neck that enlarge slowly</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Scrofula</indication>
      <indication>Cervical lymphadenopathy</indication>
      <indication>Acute lymphadenitis</indication>
      <indication>Goiter</indication>
      <indication>Thyroid nodules</indication>
      <indication>Thyroiditis</indication>
      <indication>Hyperthyroidism</indication>
      <indication>Parotitis</indication>
      <indication>Mammary gland hyperplasia</indication>
      <indication>HIV/AIDS</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>xuan shen</herb>
    <herb>mu li</herb>
    <herb>bei mu</herb>
  </constituents>
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