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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">gui zhi fu ling wan</name>
    <name type="english">Cinnamon Twig and Poria Pill</name>
  </names>
  <category>Warm the Menses and Dispel Blood Stasis</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Invigorates the Blood and transforms Blood stasis</summary>
      <indication>Blood stasis forming a fixed mass (zheng jia) in the Lower Jiao or uterus</indication>
      <indication>Blood stasis in the uterus leaving the fetus poorly nourished, or Blood stasis after an abortion</indication>
      <indication>Painful, irregular or prolonged periods with dark, clotted blood; absent or painful periods with distension; scanty flow</indication>
      <indication>Slight, ongoing bleeding of purple-black blood in pregnancy, with an unsettled fetus</indication>
      <indication>Lochia retained after childbirth</indication>
      <indication>Tongue purple or dark purple, with dark or purple spots along the edges, bruise-like patches or petechiae, or pale with purplish spots; white coat</indication>
      <indication>Pulse choppy, possibly wiry and slippery in pregnancy, or tense, deep and slow</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Softens lumps and reduces fixed abdominal pain</summary>
      <indication>Fixed, immovable masses in the lower abdomen from stagnant Phlegm and Blood, felt as fullness or hardness</indication>
      <indication>Chronic fixed, stabbing pain of the lower abdomen made worse by pressure, with spasm and tension of the abdomen</indication>
      <indication>Protruding abdomen and a sense of excess weight in the pelvis</indication>
      <indication>Headache, sinus congestion, stiff shoulders, vertigo and a flushed face, with a cold lower body and feet</indication>
      <indication>Low back ache, constipation, nervousness and fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Skin eruptions, or dry, scaly skin</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Primary dysmenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Uterine fibroids</indication>
      <indication>Cervical erosion</indication>
      <indication>Ovarian cysts</indication>
      <indication>Chronic salpingitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic pelvic inflammatory disease</indication>
      <indication>Endometritis</indication>
      <indication>Endometriosis</indication>
      <indication>Lochioschesis (retained lochia)</indication>
      <indication>Adnexitis</indication>
      <indication>Hysteromyoma</indication>
      <indication>Metropolypus</indication>
      <indication>Pelvic cellulitis</indication>
      <indication>Menstrual irregularity</indication>
      <indication>Dysmenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Amenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Uterine myoma</indication>
      <indication>Infertility</indication>
      <indication>Ovaritis</indication>
      <indication>Contusions</indication>
      <indication>Hemorrhoids</indication>
      <indication>Dermatitis</indication>
      <indication>Eczema</indication>
      <indication>Postpartum uterine bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Inflammation of the oviduct</indication>
      <indication>Menopausal disorders</indication>
      <indication>Perimenopause with uterine leiomyomas</indication>
      <indication>Ectopic pregnancy</indication>
      <indication>Stillbirth</indication>
      <indication>Male infertility with varicocele</indication>
      <indication>Prostatitis</indication>
      <indication>Nephrotic syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Premature ovarian failure</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal spasms</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Vaginal bleeding during pregnancy</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain during pregnancy</indication>
      <indication>Dry skin</indication>
      <indication>Lower abdominal masses</indication>
      <indication>Breast cancer</indication>
      <indication>Leukorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Fetal instability</indication>
      <indication>Premenstrual syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Stiff, painful low back</indication>
      <indication>Shoulder stiffness</indication>
      <indication>Headache</indication>
      <indication>Urticaria</indication>
      <indication>Black skin spots</indication>
      <indication>Pimples</indication>
      <indication>Frigorism</indication>
      <indication>Nervousness</indication>
      <indication>Neurosis</indication>
      <indication>Hysteria</indication>
      <indication>Hordeolum</indication>
      <indication>Hemophthalmos</indication>
      <indication>Blepharitis</indication>
      <indication>Keratitis</indication>
      <indication>Prostamegaly</indication>
      <indication>Hypertension</indication>
      <indication>Arthritis</indication>
      <indication>Neuralgia</indication>
      <indication>Rheumatism</indication>
      <indication>Vertigo</indication>
      <indication>Hand skin thickening from cleaning agents</indication>
      <indication>Allergy to cosmetics</indication>
      <indication>Prostatic hypertrophy</indication>
      <indication>Post ischemic brain injury</indication>
      <indication>Scleroderma</indication>
      <indication>Bladder cancer</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal tension</indication>
      <indication>Post-hemorrhoidectomy</indication>
      <indication>Enuresis</indication>
      <indication>Retained placenta</indication>
      <indication>Constipation</indication>
      <indication>Fetal restlessness</indication>
      <indication>Thyroid cancer</indication>
      <indication>Pelvic inflammatory disease</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>gui zhi</herb>
    <herb>fu ling</herb>
    <herb>shao yao</herb>
    <herb>mu dan pi</herb>
    <herb>tao ren</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
