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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">san jin tang</name>
    <name type="english">Three-Gold Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Damp Heat</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Damp-Heat, promotes urination and expels stones</summary>
      <indication>Damp-Heat lodged in the Bladder</indication>
      <indication>Frequent, urgent urination that is painful or dribbles, or stops suddenly mid-stream</indication>
      <indication>Sand or stones passed in the urine; urine turbid, scanty or absent</indication>
      <indication>Nausea, vomiting and fever</indication>
      <indication>Stone in the bladder: blood in the urine and blocked flow</indication>
      <indication>Stone in the kidney: urine slightly bloody and the kidney enlarged</indication>
      <indication>Stone in the ureter: slightly bloody urine</indication>
      <indication>Stone in the urethra: pain in the penis</indication>
      <indication>Damp-Heat pouring downward may add fever, thirst, dry mouth and low back pain</indication>
      <indication>Damp-Heat crystallizing in the Bladder may add colicky low back pain that can spread to the groin</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red or normal with a yellow or sticky yellow coat; pulse slippery and rapid, deep and wiry, or rolling</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Moves Qi</summary>
      <indication>Pain and obstruction from stones blocking the urinary passages</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Urolithiasis</indication>
      <indication>Anuria</indication>
      <indication>Oliguria</indication>
      <indication>Dysuria</indication>
      <indication>Hematuria</indication>
      <indication>Urinary tract infection</indication>
      <indication>Jaundice</indication>
      <indication>Low back pain</indication>
      <indication>Gout</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>jin qian cao</herb>
    <herb>Dong Kui Zi</herb>
    <herb>jin sha teng</herb>
    <herb>shi wei</herb>
    <herb>qu mai</herb>
    <herb>ji nei jin</herb>
  </constituents>
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