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Eliminating heat with warmth and sweetness

甘温除热 〔甘溫除熱〕gān wēn chú rè

Also eliminating great heat with warmth and sweetness. A method of treatment used to address generalized heat with medicinals warm in nature and sweet in flavor. Eliminating heat with warmth and sweetness includes, for example, treating qì vacuity heat marked by generalized heat, sweating, thirst with desire for warm drinks, scantness of breath and laziness to speak, tender-soft pale tongue, and a large vacuous pulse, using Center-Supplementing Qì-Boosting Decoction (补中益气汤 bǔ zhōng yì qì tāng). It also includes treating postpartum or taxation fatigue heat effusion marked by hot flesh, red face, vexation and thirst with desire for liquids, pale red tongue, and a large floating vacuous pulse, using Chinese Angelica Blood-Supplementing Decoction (当归补血汤 dāng guī bǔ xuè tāng).

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