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  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">bai xian pi</name>
    <name type="chinese">白鲜皮</name>
    <name type="latin">Cortex Dictami</name>
    <name type="english">cortex of Chinese dittany root</name>
    <name type="japanese">hakusenpi</name>
    <name type="korean">baekseonpi</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Heat, Relieve Toxicity</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Stomach</channel>
    <channel>Spleen</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat, resolves Fire toxicity, expels Wind and dries Damp</summary>
      <indication>Wind-Heat or Damp-Heat skin lesions (carbuncles, rashes) that ooze yellow fluid or much pus, with damp, itchy skin</indication>
      <indication>Damp-Heat eruptions, including scabies-type lesions and weeping eczema-like rashes</indication>
      <indication>Rubella and other Wind-Heat rashes whose itch moves about, comes and goes, or spreads</indication>
      <indication>Damp-Heat Bi with red, swollen and painful joints</indication>
      <indication>Jaundice from Damp-Heat in the Liver and Gallbladder</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Damp-Heat and stops itching</summary>
      <indication>Itching of the vulva and vagina</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
