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  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">ma dou ling</name>
    <name type="chinese">马兜铃</name>
    <name type="latin">Fructus Aristolochiae</name>
    <name type="english">birthwort fruit, aristolochia fruit</name>
    <name type="japanese">batorei</name>
    <name type="korean">maduryeong</name>
  </names>
  <category>Obsolete Substances</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Lung</channel>
    <channel>Large Intestine</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears the Lungs, transforms Phlegm, stops cough and calms wheezing</summary>
      <indication>Cough or wheezing from Lung Heat with Qi rebelling upward</indication>
      <indication>Cough and wheezing from Phlegm-Heat lodged in the Lungs</indication>
      <indication>Deficiency Heat of the Lungs</indication>
      <indication>Chronic asthma from Lung deficiency</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears and drains Large Intestine Heat, reduces swelling and relieves pain</summary>
      <indication>Swelling and pain around the anus from Large Intestine Heat</indication>
      <indication>Bleeding hemorrhoids and anal fistula</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Lowers blood pressure</summary>
      <indication>Hypertension with Liver Yang rising</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
