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Name |
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Combination |
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Action |
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Indication |
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5
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White Tiger Decoction
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Gypsum Fibrosum; Anemarrhenae Rhizoma; Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma; Semen Oryza Sativa
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Clears heat and generates fluids.
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The formula is indicated for intense heat in the qi level with high fever, red facial complexion, restlessness and thirst, polydipsia, sweating, aversion to heat, and a surging, big, and forceful 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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7
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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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8
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Cyperus and Perilla Powder
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Cyperi Rhizoma; Perillae Folium; Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma; Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium
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Scatters and dissipates external wind wind-cold, rectifies qi and harmonizes the middle jiao.
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Xiang Su San is indicated for an externally contracted wind-cold with qi constraint pattern. Signs and symptoms are aversion to cold, general fever, headache, absence of sweating, chest and epigastric fullness and distress, lack of appetite, a thin and white tongue coating and a superficial pulse.
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