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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">su he xiang</name>
    <name type="chinese">苏合香</name>
    <name type="latin">Styrax</name>
    <name type="english">Resin Of Rose Maloes</name>
    <name type="japanese">sogoko</name>
    <name type="korean">sohaphyang</name>
  </names>
  <category>Aromatic Open Orifices</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Spleen</channel>
    <channel>Heart</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Opens the Orifices, revives the Spirit and penetrates turbidity</summary>
      <indication>Closed disorders, especially Cold ones: abrupt collapse or unconsciousness when Wind-stroke of Cold type, or Phlegm clouding the Heart, blocks awareness</indication>
      <indication>Phlegm collapse</indication>
      <indication>Epidemic toxic diseases</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms and disperses Cold, opens stagnation, moves Qi, clears turbidity and relieves pain</summary>
      <indication>Cold or Phlegm stagnation with a stifling chest, Cold fullness, and pain of the chest, epigastrium or abdomen</indication>
      <indication>Coronary artery disease and angina-type chest pain</indication>
      <indication>Biliary colic</indication>
      <indication>Chilblains, applied topically</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
