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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">shao fu zhu yu tang</name>
    <name type="english">Drove out blood Stasis iin the Lower Abdomen Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Invigorate the blood and Dispel Stasis</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Invigorates the Blood and dispels stasis</summary>
      <indication>Blood stasis collected in the Lower Jiao</indication>
      <indication>Lower abdominal masses that can be felt, painful or not, or lower abdominal pain with no mass</indication>
      <indication>Distention of the lower abdomen, including during menstruation</indication>
      <indication>Low back pain</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms and regulates menstruation</summary>
      <indication>Periods coming three to five times a month, or spotting</indication>
      <indication>Menstrual blood dark purple and usually clotted</indication>
      <indication>Abnormal uterine bleeding with soreness and pain in the abdomen</indication>
      <indication>White vaginal discharge</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Moves Qi, unblocks the collaterals and relieves pain</summary>
      <indication>Cold intolerance with cold limbs</indication>
      <indication>Depression</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale with a white coat; pulse choppy</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Dysmenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Irregular menstruation</indication>
      <indication>Amenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Menorrhagia</indication>
      <indication>Uterine bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Infertility</indication>
      <indication>Habitual miscarriage</indication>
      <indication>Premature ovarian failure</indication>
      <indication>Ectopic pregnancy</indication>
      <indication>Endometriosis</indication>
      <indication>Ovarian cyst</indication>
      <indication>Oophoritic cyst</indication>
      <indication>Uterine myoma</indication>
      <indication>Hysteromyoma</indication>
      <indication>Pelvic inflammatory disease</indication>
      <indication>Chronic pelvic inflammatory disease</indication>
      <indication>Vaginal discharge</indication>
      <indication>Lower abdominal masses</indication>
      <indication>Impotence</indication>
      <indication>Prostatic hypertrophy</indication>
      <indication>Prostate cancer</indication>
      <indication>Bladder cancer</indication>
      <indication>Urinary calculi</indication>
      <indication>Hematuria</indication>
      <indication>Interstitial cystitis</indication>
      <indication>Urinary incontinence</indication>
      <indication>Pediatric enuresis</indication>
      <indication>Hyperplastic intestinal tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Enteritis</indication>
      <indication>Colitis</indication>
      <indication>Ulcerative colitis</indication>
      <indication>Crohn&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Diverticulitis</indication>
      <indication>Diverticulosis</indication>
      <indication>Intestinal polyps</indication>
      <indication>Colon cancer</indication>
      <indication>Stomach cancer</indication>
      <indication>Chronic hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Liver cirrhosis with edema</indication>
      <indication>Ascites</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal Cold</indication>
      <indication>Sjogren&apos;s syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Cancer pain</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>xiao hui xiang</herb>
    <herb>gan jiang</herb>
    <herb>yan hu suo</herb>
    <herb>dang gui</herb>
    <herb>chuan xiong</herb>
    <herb>mo yao</herb>
    <herb>guan gui</herb>
    <herb>chi shao</herb>
    <herb>pu huang</herb>
    <herb>wu ling zhi</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
