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  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">lian geng</name>
  </names>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Summerheat and resolves Damp</summary>
      <indication>Summer fever with thirst, irritability, scanty dark urine, reduced appetite and a heavy, clouded head</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Unblocks Qi and opens the chest and diaphragm</summary>
      <indication>Stuffiness, oppression or fullness of the chest and epigastrium accompanying Summerheat</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Raises the Clear Yang and harmonises the Middle Jiao</summary>
      <indication>Sluggish digestion and a foggy head left behind by Summerheat</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
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