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  <source>Bencao Index</source>
  <source-url>https://bencaoindex.com/</source-url>
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  <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>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">di gu pi</name>
    <name type="chinese">地骨皮</name>
    <name type="latin">Cortex Lycii</name>
    <name type="english">Chinese wolfberry root-bark</name>
    <name type="japanese">jikoppi</name>
    <name type="korean">jigolpi</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Heat, Deficient Heat</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Lung</channel>
    <channel>Kidney</channel>
    <channel>Liver</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Cools the Blood and drains Deficiency Fire from Yin deficiency, clearing Kidney Fire, lurking Heat and Heat in the bones</summary>
      <indication>Yin deficiency with Deficiency Fire (Kidney Fire) flaring upward: steaming bone fever with sweating, night sweats, chronic low-grade fever, flushed cheeks, thirst and irritability</indication>
      <indication>Tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Toothache from Deficiency Fire floating up the Kidney channel</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears and drains Lung Heat, stops cough and calms wheezing</summary>
      <indication>Cough or wheezing from Lung Heat</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat, cools the Blood and stops bleeding</summary>
      <indication>Bleeding from Heat in the Blood, such as coughing or vomiting of blood, nosebleed or blood in the urine</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
