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  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">huo xiang</name>
    <name type="chinese">藿香</name>
  </names>
  <category>Aromatic Transform Damp</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Lung</channel>
    <channel>Stomach</channel>
    <channel>Spleen</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Aromatically transforms Damp, releases the Exterior and expels Summerheat</summary>
      <indication>Turbid Damp blocking the Middle Jiao</indication>
      <indication>Summerheat with Damp</indication>
      <indication>Damp-Warm illness</indication>
      <indication>Wind-Damp</indication>
      <indication>Summer-Damp lodged in the Spleen and Stomach: a full, distended epigastrium and abdomen, poor appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and a greasy tongue coat, often with mild chills from the Exterior</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Harmonises the Middle Jiao, awakens the Spleen and stops vomiting</summary>
      <indication>Nausea or vomiting when Damp obstructs the Middle Jiao</indication>
      <indication>Vomiting of other kinds, including morning sickness, in suitable combinations</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Treats skin disorders and fungal infection</summary>
      <indication>Skin conditions and fungal infections of the hands or feet, applied topically</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
