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Purges Heat accumulation and moves the bowels

Excess Heat accumulated in the Yang Ming organs (dry Heat in the Intestines at the Qi stage) in a patient already short of Qi and Blood Severe constipation with hard, dry stool, or only clear watery fluid passing; or foul, green, watery diarrhoea seeping around the blockage Hard, painful epigastrium and abdomen, the pain worse on pressure Fever with thirst and a dry mouth and tongue Clouded consciousness or delirium; when severe, hallucinations, picking at the bedclothes, grasping at the air, and loss of consciousness with cold, contracted limbs Tongue body variable, with a dry yellow or dry black coat; pulse weak

Tonifies Qi and Blood

Classically the elderly, women after childbirth, or the chronically ill or frail, who could not bear purging on its own Low energy, shortness of breath and a weak voice Fatigue and weakness; sometimes cold limbs despite the internal Heat

Modern uses

Constipation Constipation in the elderly or after surgery Intestinal obstruction Paralytic ileus Fever with impacted stool in weak or frail patients Typhoid fever Paratyphoid Chronic bacterial dysentery Haemorrhoids False diarrhoea Pelvic inflammatory disease Salpingitis Gastroenteritis Recovery of bowel function after surgery Meningitis Encephalitis Intestinal tuberculosis Abdominal pain Crohn's disease Mesenteric lymphadenitis Trichomonas da huang mang xiao zhi shi hou po ren shen dang gui jie geng sheng jiang da zao gan cao