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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">zhi zi sheng jiang chi tang</name>
    <name type="english">gardenia, fresh ginger and parepared soybean decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Heat from Qi Level</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat and eliminates irritability</summary>
      <indication>Heat at the Qi level remaining in chest and flesh once sweating, purging or emesis has been used, now with vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Fever, irritability and restless insomnia with tossing and turning</indication>
      <indication>Tongue normal with a slightly yellow coat; pulse slightly rapid, or strong and floating at the distal position</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Relieves stuffiness of the chest and epigastrium</summary>
      <indication>Stifling feeling in the chest with an epigastrium that is soft to touch</indication>
      <indication>Hungry but no wish to eat, poor appetite, and a general sense of weakness</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Stops vomiting</summary>
      <indication>Vomiting</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Insomnia</indication>
      <indication>Night terrors</indication>
      <indication>Neurosis</indication>
      <indication>Autonomic dystonia</indication>
      <indication>Psychiatric disorders</indication>
      <indication>Adverse effects from xanthine-type bronchodilator drugs</indication>
      <indication>Viral myocarditis</indication>
      <indication>Cholecystitis</indication>
      <indication>Icteric jaundice</indication>
      <indication>Prostatitis</indication>
      <indication>Cystitis</indication>
      <indication>Glossitis</indication>
      <indication>Conjunctivitis</indication>
      <indication>Coronary artery disease</indication>
      <indication>Acute gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Hemoptysis</indication>
      <indication>Weakness</indication>
      <indication>Esophagitis</indication>
      <indication>Peptic ulcers</indication>
      <indication>Bile reflux gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Upper gastrointestinal bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Epistaxis</indication>
      <indication>Bronchiectasis</indication>
      <indication>Pneumonia</indication>
      <indication>Pulmonary tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Tonsillitis</indication>
      <indication>Periodontitis</indication>
      <indication>Otitis media</indication>
      <indication>Hypertension</indication>
      <indication>Neurasthenia</indication>
      <indication>Vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Anorexia</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>zhi zi</herb>
    <herb>dan dou chi</herb>
    <herb>sheng jiang</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
