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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">da huang zhe chong wan</name>
    <name type="english">Rhubarb And Euphlyphaga Pill</name>
  </names>
  <category>Invigorate the blood and Dispel Stasis</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Invigorates the Blood and strongly breaks up Blood stasis</summary>
      <indication>Severe, long-standing Blood stasis with dry Blood (gan xue), a form of consumptive disease</indication>
      <indication>Fixed abdominal masses, perhaps with local pain and tenderness, and abdominal fullness</indication>
      <indication>No periods, where stasis blocks the Chong and Ren vessels</indication>
      <indication>Tongue purplish or reddish, or dark and dry-looking, perhaps with stasis spots; pulse wiry and choppy, wiry, small and smooth, or deep and choppy</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Nourishes the Blood and generates new Blood</summary>
      <indication>Wasting in spite of eating, with poor appetite</indication>
      <indication>Skin that is rough, dry and scaly, like fish scales</indication>
      <indication>Dull, dark look to the eyes and the area around them</indication>
      <indication>Tidal fever, and perhaps dry stools</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Jaundice from stagnant Blood</indication>
      <indication>Cirrhosis of the liver</indication>
      <indication>Liver fibrosis</indication>
      <indication>Alcoholic liver disease</indication>
      <indication>Chronic hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Hepatic neoplasms</indication>
      <indication>Liver cancer</indication>
      <indication>Stomach cancer</indication>
      <indication>Esophageal varices</indication>
      <indication>Organomegaly</indication>
      <indication>Tubercular peritonitis</indication>
      <indication>Pulmonary tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Uterine leiomyoma</indication>
      <indication>Pelvic inflammatory disease</indication>
      <indication>Amenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Lower abdominal masses</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal fullness and distension</indication>
      <indication>Anorexia</indication>
      <indication>Post-surgical adhesions</indication>
      <indication>Chronic myelogenous leukemia</indication>
      <indication>Thrombocytopenic purpura</indication>
      <indication>Thrombophlebitis</indication>
      <indication>Osteomyelitis</indication>
      <indication>Diabetes</indication>
      <indication>Acne vulgaris</indication>
      <indication>Psoriasis</indication>
      <indication>Keloid</indication>
      <indication>Prurigo nodularis</indication>
      <indication>Dermatosclerosis</indication>
      <indication>Rosacea</indication>
      <indication>Leg erysipelas with lymphangitis</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>da huang</herb>
    <herb>tu bie chong</herb>
    <herb>tao ren</herb>
    <herb>gan qi</herb>
    <herb>qi cao</herb>
    <herb>shui zhi</herb>
    <herb>meng chong</herb>
    <herb>huang qin</herb>
    <herb>xing ren</herb>
    <herb>sheng di huang</herb>
    <herb>Bai Shao</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
