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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">shen tong zhu yu tang</name>
    <name type="english">Dive out blood stasis from a painful body decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Invigorate the blood and Dispel Stasis</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Invigorates Qi and Blood and removes stasis from the channels and collaterals</summary>
      <indication>Painful obstruction from stagnant Qi and Blood</indication>
      <indication>Tongue purple or with ecchymoses and a thin white coat; pulse choppy</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Unblocks painful obstruction and alleviates pain</summary>
      <indication>Aching muscles of the neck, back, shoulders and legs, or pain throughout the body</indication>
      <indication>Pain of the shoulder, elbow, arm, waist, low back or leg</indication>
      <indication>Sciatica</indication>
      <indication>Works on the whole body and often helps Bi that other Bi formulas have not relieved</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Whole-body muscle aches</indication>
      <indication>Whole body pain</indication>
      <indication>Arthralgia</indication>
      <indication>Arthritis</indication>
      <indication>Rheumatoid arthritis</indication>
      <indication>Lumbago</indication>
      <indication>Middle back pain</indication>
      <indication>Neck pain</indication>
      <indication>Hip pain</indication>
      <indication>Leg pain</indication>
      <indication>Sciatica</indication>
      <indication>Neuralgia</indication>
      <indication>Peripheral neuropathy</indication>
      <indication>Carpal tunnel syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Lateral epicondylitis</indication>
      <indication>Tennis elbow</indication>
      <indication>Epitrochleitis</indication>
      <indication>Elbow pain</indication>
      <indication>Scapulohumeral periarthritis</indication>
      <indication>Hyperosteogeny</indication>
      <indication>Osteoporosis</indication>
      <indication>Allergic purpura</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>qin jiao</herb>
    <herb>chuan xiong</herb>
    <herb>tao ren</herb>
    <herb>hong hua</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
    <herb>qiang huo</herb>
    <herb>mo yao</herb>
    <herb>dang gui</herb>
    <herb>ling zhi</herb>
    <herb>xiang fu</herb>
    <herb>chuan niu xi</herb>
    <herb>di long</herb>
  </constituents>
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