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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">xie huang san</name>
    <name type="english">Darin the Yellow Powder</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Heat from Organs</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears and vents hidden Fire in the Spleen and Stomach</summary>
      <indication>Latent Fire lodged in the Spleen and Stomach, milder and more recurrent than blazing Stomach Fire, in children and adults</indication>
      <indication>Mouth and tongue ulcers with a hot feeling in the mouth and bad breath</indication>
      <indication>Dry or cracked lips and dry mouth, with thirst</indication>
      <indication>Constant hunger or fast digestion, with a liking for cold</indication>
      <indication>Nosebleed; irritability</indication>
      <indication>In children: fretfulness and repeated thrusting out of the tongue</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red with a normal or yellow coat; pulse rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Aphthous ulcers, including recurrent aphthous stomatitis</indication>
      <indication>Ulcerating stomatitis</indication>
      <indication>Oral thrush</indication>
      <indication>Gum inflammation</indication>
      <indication>Cheilitis</indication>
      <indication>Lip pain</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pain</indication>
      <indication>Halitosis</indication>
      <indication>Acute gastritis with halitosis</indication>
      <indication>Behcet&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Stye (hordeolum)</indication>
      <indication>Atopic dermatitis</indication>
      <indication>Eczema</indication>
      <indication>Rosacea</indication>
      <indication>Epistaxis</indication>
      <indication>Fever</indication>
      <indication>Epstein-Barr virus syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Myalgic encephalomyelitis</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>shi gao</herb>
    <herb>zhi zi</herb>
    <herb>fang feng</herb>
    <herb>huo xiang ye</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
  </constituents>
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