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  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">huai hua san</name>
    <name type="english">Sophora Japonica Flower Powder</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Heat and Stop Bleeding</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Cools the Intestines and stops bleeding</summary>
      <indication>Wind-Heat (Intestinal Wind) or Damp-Heat lodged in the Stomach, Intestines or Large Intestine, forcing blood out of its vessels</indication>
      <indication>Fresh red blood from the bowel, usually before the stool but sometimes after it or mixed with it</indication>
      <indication>Bleeding haemorrhoids, the blood bright or dark red</indication>
      <indication>Possibly bleeding of a dysentery type</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Disperses Wind</summary>
      <indication>Tongue red; pulse wiry and rapid (more Heat) or soggy and rapid (more Damp)</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Promotes the movement of Qi and relaxes the Intestines</summary>
      <indication>Swelling, heat or discomfort around the anus</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Haemorrhoids, internal or external, with bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Rectal bleeding and blood in the stool (hematochezia)</indication>
      <indication>Anal fissure</indication>
      <indication>Colitis</indication>
      <indication>Ulcerative colitis</indication>
      <indication>Amoebic dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Rectal prolapse</indication>
      <indication>Rectal polyp</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>Huai Hua (Chao)</herb>
    <herb>ce bai ye</herb>
    <herb>jing jie sui</herb>
    <herb>zhi ke</herb>
  </constituents>
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