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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">xie bai san</name>
    <name type="english">Drain the white powder from the wondrous Lantern</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Heat from Organs</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Drains smouldering Heat from the Lungs</summary>
      <indication>Hidden Heat lodged in the Lungs, often lingering after an exterior illness or arising within</indication>
      <indication>Liver Fire scorching the Lungs</indication>
      <indication>Cough from Yin deficiency brought on by Lung Heat</indication>
      <indication>Skin hot to the touch with a steaming feeling, and fever that rises in the afternoon or evening, usually low-grade rather than high; possibly flushed cheeks</indication>
      <indication>Dry mouth and throat, dry bitter taste, and scant sputum that is hard to bring up, or yellow sputum</indication>
      <indication>Burning pain in the chest and ribs, or a full, oppressed chest</indication>
      <indication>Blood in the sputum or nosebleeds</indication>
      <indication>Irritability and impatience, dizziness, red eyes, no sweating, and possibly constipation</indication>
      <indication>Children whose condition swings between excess and deficiency</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red with a thin yellow coat; pulse thin and rapid, possibly wiry</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Calms wheezing, stops cough and eases breathing</summary>
      <indication>High, clear-sounding cough with wheezing</indication>
      <indication>Hurried or laboured breathing</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Upper respiratory tract infection</indication>
      <indication>Common cold</indication>
      <indication>Acute bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Tracheitis</indication>
      <indication>Pneumonia</indication>
      <indication>Pneumonia in children</indication>
      <indication>Whooping cough</indication>
      <indication>Early-stage pulmonary tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Pleurisy</indication>
      <indication>Measles, early stage or in infants, including measles pneumonitis</indication>
      <indication>Asthma, including bronchial asthma and mild asthmatic cough</indication>
      <indication>Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease</indication>
      <indication>Bronchiectasis</indication>
      <indication>Loffler&apos;s syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Tropical eosinophilia</indication>
      <indication>Lung cancer</indication>
      <indication>Cough</indication>
      <indication>Dyspnoea</indication>
      <indication>Bleeding from the upper respiratory tract</indication>
      <indication>Haemoptysis</indication>
      <indication>Epistaxis</indication>
      <indication>Nosebleed during menstruation (inverted menses)</indication>
      <indication>Acute and chronic tonsillitis</indication>
      <indication>Herpes simplex</indication>
      <indication>Rosacea</indication>
      <indication>Acne vulgaris</indication>
      <indication>Urticaria</indication>
      <indication>Conjunctivitis</indication>
      <indication>Red eyes</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pain</indication>
      <indication>Hypertension</indication>
      <indication>Constipation</indication>
      <indication>Dizziness</indication>
      <indication>Fever</indication>
      <indication>Epstein-Barr virus syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Myalgic encephalomyelitis</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>sang bai pi</herb>
    <herb>di gu pi</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
    <herb>geng mi</herb>
    <herb>ren shen</herb>
    <herb>fu ling</herb>
    <herb>zhi mu</herb>
    <herb>huang qin</herb>
  </constituents>
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