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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">yin qiao bai du san</name>
    <name type="english">Honey suckle and Forsythia Powder to overcome pathogenic influences</name>
  </names>
  <category>Formulas that Release Exterior Disorders with Interior Deficiency</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Dispels external Wind, Heat and Dampness</summary>
      <indication>Heat toxin inside with an external attack of Wind-Heat and Dampness at the same time</indication>
      <indication>Fever with chills and no sweating</indication>
      <indication>Headache, aching and stiff muscles</indication>
      <indication>Blocked nose and a cough with phlegm</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red with a greasy coat, white or yellow; pulse floating and either weak or rapid, or deep and rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Relieves toxicity</summary>
      <indication>Toxic Wind-Heat with carbuncles and pus-forming infections</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Common cold</indication>
      <indication>Influenza</indication>
      <indication>Cough</indication>
      <indication>Nasal congestion</indication>
      <indication>Acute laryngitis</indication>
      <indication>Tonsillitis</indication>
      <indication>Parotitis</indication>
      <indication>Carbuncles</indication>
      <indication>Furuncles</indication>
      <indication>Abscess</indication>
      <indication>Suppurative infections</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>qiang huo</herb>
    <herb>du huo</herb>
    <herb>chuan xiong</herb>
    <herb>chai hu</herb>
    <herb>jie geng</herb>
    <herb>zhi ke</herb>
    <herb>qian hu</herb>
    <herb>ren shen</herb>
    <herb>fu ling</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
    <herb>jin yin hua</herb>
    <herb>lian qiao</herb>
  </constituents>
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