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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">bai tou weng tang</name>
    <name type="english">Pulsatilla Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Heat from Organs</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat and resolves toxicity</summary>
      <indication>Damp-Heat or Heat-toxin dysentery, with Heat and toxin scorching the Stomach and Intestines</indication>
      <indication>Dysentery of the Jue Yin stage caused by Heat</indication>
      <indication>A burning feeling around the anus, thirst with a wish to drink, perhaps low fever, and short, dark urination</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red with a yellow coat; pulse wiry and rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Cools Blood and stops dysentery</summary>
      <indication>Abdominal pain and tenesmus with foul stools that contain more blood than pus</indication>
      <indication>Reddish vaginal discharge</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Bacillary dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Amoebic dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Acute or chronic enteritis</indication>
      <indication>Postpartum enteritis</indication>
      <indication>Gastroenteritis</indication>
      <indication>Colitis</indication>
      <indication>Ulcerative colitis</indication>
      <indication>Crohn&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Diverticulitis</indication>
      <indication>Irritable bowel syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>AIDS/HIV-related diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain</indication>
      <indication>Anorexia</indication>
      <indication>Pneumonia</indication>
      <indication>Conjunctivitis</indication>
      <indication>Acute conjunctivitis</indication>
      <indication>Acute Damp-Heat eye disorders</indication>
      <indication>Leukorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Pelvic inflammatory disease</indication>
      <indication>Acute urinary tract infections</indication>
      <indication>Oliguria</indication>
      <indication>Profuse perspiration</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>bai tou weng</herb>
    <herb>huang lian</herb>
    <herb>huang bai</herb>
    <herb>qin pi</herb>
  </constituents>
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