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<record type="herb" updated="2026-09-18T16:36:50.014557+00:00">
  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">yin chai hu</name>
    <name type="chinese">银柴胡</name>
    <name type="latin">Radix Stellariae</name>
    <name type="english">starwort root</name>
    <name type="japanese">ginsaiko</name>
    <name type="korean">eunsiho</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Heat, Deficient Heat</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Stomach</channel>
    <channel>Liver</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Deficiency Heat</summary>
      <indication>Fever of any kind from Yin deficiency, including steaming bone disorder with Yin-deficient Fire</indication>
      <indication>Tidal or afternoon fever, low-grade fever and night sweats</indication>
      <indication>Heat that lingers in the late stage of a febrile disease</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat from childhood nutritional impairment</summary>
      <indication>Childhood nutritional impairment (Gan Ji) where accumulation has generated Heat, with fever, thirst, irritability and wasting</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Cools the Blood and stops bleeding</summary>
      <indication>Bleeding driven by Heat in the Blood, such as nosebleed, coughing blood, uterine bleeding or blood in the urine</indication>
      <indication>Bleeding hemorrhoids</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
