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  <source>Bencao Index</source>
  <source-url>https://bencaoindex.com/</source-url>
  <canonical>https://bencaoindex.com/herbs/dan-zhu-ye/</canonical>
  <licence>Free to use and republish with visible attribution and a link back to the source page. The catalogue is a reference work and is knowingly incomplete; nothing in it is medical advice.</licence>
  <attribution-html>&lt;a href=&quot;https://bencaoindex.com/herbs/dan-zhu-ye/&quot;&gt;Bencao Index&lt;/a&gt;</attribution-html>
  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">dan zhu ye</name>
    <name type="chinese">淡竹叶</name>
    <name type="latin">Herba Lophatheri</name>
    <name type="english">Lophatherum</name>
    <name type="japanese">tanchikuyo</name>
    <name type="korean">damjukyeop</name>
  </names>
  <category>Drain Fire</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Stomach</channel>
    <channel>Heart</channel>
    <channel>Small Intestine</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat and relieves irritability</summary>
      <indication>Febrile illness or internal Heat with thirst, a dry mouth, agitation and restlessness</indication>
      <indication>Early Wind-Heat or warm disease, alongside herbs that release the Exterior and nourish Fluids</indication>
      <indication>Sores of the mouth, lips and tongue, and swollen, painful gums, from Heat in the Heart or Stomach</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Promotes urination and clears Damp-Heat</summary>
      <indication>Urination that is scanty, rough and painful</indication>
      <indication>Heart Heat passed down to the Small Intestine: dark, scanty, painful urination with irritability and a red tongue tip</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
