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Ephedra, Apricot Kernel, Licorice and Gypsum Decoction
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Ephedrae Herba; Armeniacae Semen Amarum; Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma; Gypsum Fibrosum
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Acrid-cool to scatter the exterior, clear heat, and calm labored breathing.
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This formula is indicated for patterns of externally contracted wind causing pathogenic heat to obstruct the lung. Signs and symptoms include continuous fever, cough with rapid qi counterflow or even flaring of nostrils, thirst, presence or absence of sweat, a thin white or yellowish tongue coating, and a superficial and rapid pulse.
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10
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Purple Snow Elixir
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Gypsum Fibrosum; Glauberitum; Talcum; Magnetitum; Bubali Cornu; Saigae Tataricae Cornu; Aquilariae Lignum Resinatum; Aucklandiae Radix; Scrophulariae Radix; Cimicifugae Rhizoma; Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma Praeparata cum Melle; Caryophylli Flos
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Clears heat and opens the orifices, extinguishes wind and arrests convulsion.
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Zi Xue Dan is indicated for heat invading the pericardium and excessive heat generating wind. The symptoms are high fever, vexation and agitation, unconsciousness and delirium, convulsion, syncope, thirst, drinking a lot, scorched lips, dry tooth, dark urine, and constipation. The tongue is crimson with a dry, yellow coating, and a wiry, forceful pulse. Zi Xue Dan is also indicated for infantile convulsion due to excessive heat.
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Coptis Toxin-Resolving Decoction
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Coptidis Rhizoma; Scutellariae Radix; Phellodendri Chinensis Cortex; Gardeniae Fructus
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Drains fire and resolves toxins.
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This formula is indicated for fire toxins in the sanjiao. The symptoms are fever, vexation, delirious speech, sleeplessness, dry mouth and throat, dark urine, spitting of blood, nosebleed, rashes, fever with dysentery, jaundice caused by epidemic toxins, rashes, abscesses, ulcers, boils, a red tongue with yellow coating, and a forceful rapid pulse.
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12
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Phragmites Stem Decoction
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Caulis Phragmites/Phragmites Rhizoma; Coicis Semen; Semen Benincasae; Persicae Semen
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Clears lung heat, dissolves phlegm, expels stasis, and dissipates masses.
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This formula is indicated for lung abscesses, and patterns of accumulation and obstruction of heat toxins, binding of phlegm, and blood stasis. The symptoms are coughing with profuse phlegm, coughing or spitting up of foul smelling pus and blood, dull pain in the chest, a red tongue with a greasy yellow coating, and a slippery, rapid pulse.
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