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  <source>Bencao Index</source>
  <source-url>https://bencaoindex.com/</source-url>
  <canonical>https://bencaoindex.com/herbs/qian-hu/</canonical>
  <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>
  <attribution-html>&lt;a href=&quot;https://bencaoindex.com/herbs/qian-hu/&quot;&gt;Bencao Index&lt;/a&gt;</attribution-html>
  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">qian hu</name>
    <name type="chinese">前胡</name>
    <name type="latin">Radix Peucedani</name>
    <name type="english">hogfennel root</name>
    <name type="japanese">zenko</name>
    <name type="korean">jeonho</name>
  </names>
  <category>Cool &amp; Transform Phlegm Heat</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Lung</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Descends Qi and expels Phlegm</summary>
      <indication>Lung Heat: cough and wheezing, copious thick sputum that is hard to bring up, and a tight, full chest</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Disperses Wind-Heat</summary>
      <indication>Headache and cough from Wind-Heat, especially where it has constrained the Lungs</indication>
      <indication>Wind-Heat exterior pattern with fever and sore throat</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
