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  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">xi yang shen</name>
    <name type="chinese">西洋参</name>
    <name type="latin">Radix Panacis Quinquefolii</name>
    <name type="english">American ginseng</name>
    <name type="japanese">seiyojin</name>
    <name type="korean">seoyangsam</name>
  </names>
  <category>Tonify Yin</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Lung</channel>
    <channel>Heart</channel>
    <channel>Kidney</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Tonifies Qi, generates Fluids, nourishes the Stomach and nourishes Yin</summary>
      <indication>Deficient Qi, Yin and Body Fluids with Heat signs and a chronic fever that does not abate</indication>
      <indication>Weakness, irritability, thirst and a lingering low fever after febrile disease</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Tonifies Lung Yin and clears Fire from the Lungs</summary>
      <indication>Lung Qi and Yin both deficient, Fluids depleted and Deficiency Fire flaring so that the Lungs cannot clear and disperse: long-standing wheezing and blood-streaked sputum</indication>
      <indication>Lung Yin deficiency with cough, dry cough, hoarseness or loss of voice, and coughing up blood</indication>
      <indication>Thirst with a dry mouth and tongue from Yin deficiency</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat from the Intestines and stops bleeding</summary>
      <indication>Blood in the stool from Intestinal Heat due to Yin deficiency</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
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