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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">yue bi tang</name>
    <name type="english">Maidservant from Yue Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Heat from Organs</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Induces sweating and releases the Exterior</summary>
      <indication>Wind edema</indication>
      <indication>Dislike of wind, with mild fever or none</indication>
      <indication>Sweating that is light but constant, or absent</indication>
      <indication>Tongue normal with a white coat; pulse floating, or floating and rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Disseminates Lung Qi</summary>
      <indication>Cough and asthma</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Promotes urination and drains water</summary>
      <indication>Edema through the whole body that begins in the face</indication>
      <indication>Scanty, difficult urination</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat</summary>
      <indication>Thirst, or no thirst</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Edema</indication>
      <indication>Facial edema</indication>
      <indication>Initial stage of dropsy</indication>
      <indication>Nephritic edema</indication>
      <indication>Primary nephritis</indication>
      <indication>Acute nephritis</indication>
      <indication>Dermatic nephritis</indication>
      <indication>Nephrotic syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Oliguria</indication>
      <indication>Hydrocele</indication>
      <indication>Inguinal hernia</indication>
      <indication>Rheumatoid arthritis</indication>
      <indication>Arthritis of the legs</indication>
      <indication>Painful obstruction</indication>
      <indication>Beriberi</indication>
      <indication>Cough</indication>
      <indication>Asthma</indication>
      <indication>Sore throat</indication>
      <indication>Keratitis</indication>
      <indication>Carbuncles</indication>
      <indication>Eczema</indication>
      <indication>Fever</indication>
      <indication>Spontaneous perspiration</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>ma huang</herb>
    <herb>shi gao</herb>
    <herb>sheng jiang</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
    <herb>da zao</herb>
  </constituents>
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