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Lophatherum and Gypsum Decoction
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Lophatheri Herba; Gypsum Fibrosum; Pinelliae Rhizoma; Ophiopogonis Radix; Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma; Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma; Semen Oryza Sativa
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Clears heat and generates fluids, boosts qi and harmonizes the stomach.
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Cold damage, warm disease, summerheat disease with residual heat, and damage of both qi and fluid. The signs include body fever, profuse sweating, chest distress and restlessness, nausea, dry mouth and polydipsia, low spirits and weak breathing, dry throat and lips, poor appetite, cough and choking, insomnia, a red tongue with little coating, and a weak and rapid pulse.
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6
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Apricot Kernel and Perilla Powder
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Perillae Folium; Pinelliae Rhizoma; Poria; Peucedani Radix; Platycodonis Radix; Aurantii Fructus; Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma; Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens; Jujubae Fructus; Armeniacae Semen Amarum; Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium
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Relieves cool-dryness by light diffusion, regulates lung function, and dissolves phlegm.
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Xing Su San is indicated for patterns of externally-contracted cool-dryness. The symptoms are aversion to cold, mild headache, coughing with scanty sputum, stuffy nose, and a dry throat. The tongue coating is white, and the pulse is wiry.
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Honey-Fried Licorice Decoction
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Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma; Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens; Cinnamomi Ramulus; Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma; Rehmanniae Radix; Asini Corii Colla; Ophiopogonis Radix; Cannabis Fructus; Jujubae Fructus
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Boosts qi, enriches yin, unblocks yang, and restores the pulse.
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1. Zhi Gan Cao Tang is indicated for patterns of yin-blood and yang-qi deficiency with malnutrition of the heart vessel. The symptoms are intermittent or knotted pulse, palpitations, weakness, emaciation, weak breathing, etc. The tongue is peeled with a scanty or dry and thin coating. 2. Zhi Gan Cao Tang is indicated for deficiency-consumption and lung atrophy. The symptoms are dry cough without expectoration, or spitting up a small amount of saliva, emaciation, shortness of breath, insomnia, vexation, spontaneous sweating or night sweat, a dry throat and tongue, dry stool, and a deficient, rapid pulse.
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Sweet Wormwood and Turtle Shell Decoction
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Artemisiae Annuae Herba; Trionycis Carapax; Rehmanniae Radix; Anemarrhenae Rhizoma; Moutan Cortex
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Nourishes yin and vents heat.
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This formula is indicated for patterns where yin has been damaged along with latent pathogens. The symptoms are night fever that abates at dawn, fever that abates without sweating, a red tongue body with a scanty coating, and a thready, rapid pulse.
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