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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">di dang tang</name>
    <name type="english">Resistance Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Invigorate the blood and Dispel Stasis</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Breaks up and dispels Blood stasis</summary>
      <indication>Blood stasis in the Lower Jiao from Heat in the Blood</indication>
      <indication>Lower abdomen hard, distended and painful, resisting pressure</indication>
      <indication>Urination unaffected, or even increased</indication>
      <indication>Black stools that pass easily</indication>
      <indication>Late, irregular or absent periods, with clotted blood</indication>
      <indication>Dark spots of stasis showing on the lips, face, tongue, nails and limbs</indication>
      <indication>Tongue purplish with an ordinary coat; pulse deep, slow and irregular</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat</summary>
      <indication>Manic behaviour and forgetfulness</indication>
      <indication>Thirst and dry mouth</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Acute pelvic inflammatory disease</indication>
      <indication>Leiomyoma</indication>
      <indication>Endometriosis</indication>
      <indication>Dysmenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Amenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Irregular menstruation</indication>
      <indication>Lochioschesis</indication>
      <indication>Intrauterine myxedema</indication>
      <indication>Thrombophlebitis</indication>
      <indication>Postpartum thrombophlebitis</indication>
      <indication>Arteriosclerosis</indication>
      <indication>Coronary heart disease</indication>
      <indication>Angina pectoris</indication>
      <indication>Cor pulmonale</indication>
      <indication>Stroke</indication>
      <indication>Cerebrovascular disease</indication>
      <indication>Mania</indication>
      <indication>Schizophrenia</indication>
      <indication>Epilepsy</indication>
      <indication>Anxiety</indication>
      <indication>Hyperglycemia</indication>
      <indication>Obesity</indication>
      <indication>Benign prostatic hypertrophy</indication>
      <indication>Acute urinary retention</indication>
      <indication>Testicular tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Icteric hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Schistosomiasis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic colitis</indication>
      <indication>Habitual constipation</indication>
      <indication>Gangrene</indication>
      <indication>External trauma</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>shui zhi</herb>
    <herb>meng chong</herb>
    <herb>tao ren</herb>
    <herb>da huang</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
