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<record type="herb" updated="2026-09-18T16:36:58.684074+00:00">
  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">ban lan gen</name>
    <name type="chinese">板蓝根</name>
    <name type="latin">Radix Isatidis</name>
    <name type="english">Isatis Root</name>
    <name type="japanese">banrankon</name>
    <name type="korean">panramgeun</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Heat, Relieve Toxicity</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Lung</channel>
    <channel>Stomach</channel>
    <channel>Heart</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Drains Heat, resolves Fire toxicity, cools the Blood and benefits the throat</summary>
      <indication>Warm febrile disease</indication>
      <indication>Epidemic febrile illness, including influenza-like and meningitis-like patterns, and encephalitis B</indication>
      <indication>Measles and mumps</indication>
      <indication>A painful, swollen throat from seasonal toxic pathogens, and upper respiratory infections</indication>
      <indication>Erysipelas and other Heat toxin eruptions of the skin</indication>
      <indication>Damp-Heat jaundice and infectious hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Heat in the Gallbladder</indication>
      <indication>Heat in the Blood, including Heat toxin at the Blood level</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
