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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">xie qing wan</name>
    <name type="english">Darin the Green Pill</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Heat from Organs</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears the Liver and drains Fire</summary>
      <indication>Liver Fire</indication>
      <indication>Red, sore, swollen eyes</indication>
      <indication>Headache at the temples, dizziness, red cheeks and a bitter taste</indication>
      <indication>Quick to anger, irritability and restlessness</indication>
      <indication>Insomnia or restless sleep</indication>
      <indication>Dark or reddish urine and constipation</indication>
      <indication>Possibly tremors or convulsions</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red, or red and trembling, with a yellow coat; pulse either flooding and excess, wiry and rapid, or full, wiry, rapid and floating</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Vascular headache</indication>
      <indication>Headache from hypertension</indication>
      <indication>Hypertension</indication>
      <indication>Insomnia</indication>
      <indication>Herpes zoster</indication>
      <indication>Conjunctivitis</indication>
      <indication>Blepharitis</indication>
      <indication>Scleritis</indication>
      <indication>Panophthalmitis</indication>
      <indication>Glaucoma</indication>
      <indication>Electric ophthalmia</indication>
      <indication>Red, sore, swollen eyes</indication>
      <indication>Otitis media</indication>
      <indication>Ear pain</indication>
      <indication>Boil of the external ear canal</indication>
      <indication>Acute convulsions in infants</indication>
      <indication>High fever</indication>
      <indication>Muscle spasms</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>dang gui</herb>
    <herb>long dan cao</herb>
    <herb>chuan xiong</herb>
    <herb>zhi zi</herb>
    <herb>da huang</herb>
    <herb>qiang huo</herb>
    <herb>fang feng</herb>
  </constituents>
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