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Harmonises Shao Yang and reduces fever

Shao Yang pattern: chills alternating with fever, a bitter taste, fullness in the chest, pain along the flanks, dizziness and ringing in the ears, irritability, and nausea or vomiting Deficiency Heat, as a supporting herb Gallbladder Fire

Spreads Liver Qi and relieves constraint

Constrained Liver Qi with chest and flank pain, dizziness, emotional strain and irregular periods Liver overacting on the Spleen and Stomach, with epigastric and rib-side pain, a tight chest, bloating, nausea and poor digestion Liver and Gallbladder disharmony

Raises the Clear Yang of the Middle Jiao

Sinking Qi of the Spleen and Stomach with prolapse of the rectum or uterus, hemorrhoids, long-standing diarrhea or exhaustion Vaginal discharge or bleeding when Qi fails to lift and hold

Disperses Wind-Heat and clears Phlegm congestion

Wind-Heat invasion