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  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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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">jin guo lan</name>
    <name type="chinese">金果榄</name>
    <name type="latin">Radix Tinosporae</name>
    <name type="english">tinospora root</name>
  </names>
  <channels>
    <channel>Lung</channel>
    <channel>Large Intestine</channel>
    <channel>Stomach</channel>
    <channel>Heart</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat, soothes the throat, resolves toxicity and relieves pain</summary>
      <indication>Heat in the throat with soreness, swelling or abscess, cough, loss of voice or acute laryngitis</indication>
      <indication>Mouth ulcers (aphthae) and conjunctivitis</indication>
      <indication>Stomach Heat with abdominal pain, diarrhea or vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Nosebleed</indication>
      <indication>Skin conditions treated topically: cellulitis, carbuncles, boils, sores, ulcers and toxins from incised wounds</indication>
      <indication>Snake bites and bites from mosquitoes or other insects, applied topically</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
