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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">fu yuan huo xue tang</name>
    <name type="english">Revive Health by Invigorating the Blood Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Invigorate the Blood in the Treatment of Trauma</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Invigorates the Blood and dispels Blood stasis</summary>
      <indication>Stasis of Blood lodged in the Liver channel of the chest, flank or hypochondrium after an injury such as a blow or fall</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal Blood stasis</indication>
      <indication>Unbearable pain that stays in one place and is stabbing or piercing, often worse at night and with pressure or movement</indication>
      <indication>Bruising or swelling at the site of injury</indication>
      <indication>Tongue dark or purplish, perhaps with stasis spots, and a thin white coat; pulse choppy and wiry</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Spreads Liver Qi and unblocks the channels and collaterals to stop pain</summary>
      <indication>Pain following the course of the Liver or Gallbladder channel</indication>
      <indication>Difficulty turning or bending the trunk, with irritability from constrained Liver Qi</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Traumatic injury</indication>
      <indication>Contusions and soft-tissue injury of the chest wall, ribs and flank from a fall, blow or sports injury</indication>
      <indication>Pain from stasis after injury or surgery</indication>
      <indication>Headache</indication>
      <indication>Post-herpetic neuralgia</indication>
      <indication>Prostatitis</indication>
      <indication>Concussion</indication>
      <indication>Bone fractures</indication>
      <indication>Hypochondriac pain</indication>
      <indication>Mammary gland hyperplasia</indication>
      <indication>Intestinal adhesion</indication>
      <indication>Wrist and hand pain</indication>
      <indication>Painful obstruction</indication>
      <indication>Soft tissue injury</indication>
      <indication>Intercostal neuralgia</indication>
      <indication>Costochondritis</indication>
      <indication>Low back pain</indication>
      <indication>Scapulocostal syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Hepatic abscess</indication>
      <indication>Ocular hemorrhage</indication>
      <indication>Gout</indication>
      <indication>Heel pain</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>dang gui</herb>
    <herb>tao ren</herb>
    <herb>hong hua</herb>
    <herb>chuan shan jia</herb>
    <herb>da huang (shu)</herb>
    <herb>tian hua fen</herb>
    <herb>chai hu</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
  </constituents>
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