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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">mu xiang bing lang wan</name>
    <name type="english">Aucklandia and Betel Nut Pill</name>
  </names>
  <category>Formulas that Reduce Food Stagnation</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Moves Qi and guides out stagnation</summary>
      <indication>Food and Qi stagnation in the Stomach and Intestines that has turned into Damp-Heat</indication>
      <indication>Distension and fullness felt widely and in one area</indication>
      <indication>Pain, fullness and marked distension in the epigastrium and abdomen</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Purges accumulation and drains Damp-Heat</summary>
      <indication>Or instead, blocked bowels arising from that obstruction</indication>
      <indication>Dysenteric diarrhoea, red and white, with pus and blood in the stool, a foul smell, and a constant urge with little result</indication>
      <indication>Difficult bowel movements and difficult urination</indication>
      <indication>A bitter mouth</indication>
      <indication>Tongue body normal with a greasy yellow coat; pulse deep and forceful (some sources give slippery and rapid)</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Dysentery, including acute bacterial dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Acute enteritis</indication>
      <indication>Gastroenteritis, including acute gastroenteritis</indication>
      <indication>Indigestion</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain</indication>
      <indication>Acute abdomen</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal fullness and distension</indication>
      <indication>Constipation</indication>
      <indication>Narrowing (stenosis) of the rectum or colon</indication>
      <indication>Tuberculous peritonitis</indication>
      <indication>Liver cirrhosis with ascites</indication>
      <indication>Chronic nephritis</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>mu xiang</herb>
    <herb>bing pian</herb>
    <herb>da huang</herb>
    <herb>qian niu zi</herb>
    <herb>qing pi</herb>
    <herb>chen pi</herb>
    <herb>xiang fu</herb>
    <herb>e zhu</herb>
    <herb>huang lian</herb>
    <herb>huang bai</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
