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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">sheng hua tang</name>
    <name type="english">Generation and Transformation Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Warm the Menses and Dispel Blood Stasis</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Invigorates the Blood and dispels stasis</summary>
      <indication>Postpartum Blood deficiency with Cold and stasis congealed in the uterus</indication>
      <indication>Retained lochia in the days after delivery: scanty, blocked or absent, dark purple and clotted</indication>
      <indication>Hard, cold, painful lower abdomen, worse for pressure, possibly with masses</indication>
      <indication>Helps the uterus return to its normal size after delivery</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale-purple, or pale with purple spots; pulse deep, thin and choppy</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms the menses and the channels and alleviates pain</summary>
      <indication>Cramping or cold pain of the lower abdomen, often eased by warmth</indication>
      <indication>Cold feeling in the lower abdomen</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Retention of the placenta</indication>
      <indication>Prolonged lochia</indication>
      <indication>Lochiorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Postpartum pain</indication>
      <indication>Postpartum lower abdominal pain</indication>
      <indication>Postpartum uterine bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Postpartum infection</indication>
      <indication>Puerperal fever</indication>
      <indication>Uterine subinvolution</indication>
      <indication>Uterine contraction</indication>
      <indication>Post-abortion bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Post-miscarriage bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Ectopic pregnancy</indication>
      <indication>Habitual miscarriage</indication>
      <indication>Vaginal bleeding during pregnancy</indication>
      <indication>Fetal restlessness</indication>
      <indication>Unpleasant symptoms during pregnancy</indication>
      <indication>Endometriosis</indication>
      <indication>Hysteromyoma</indication>
      <indication>Leiomyoma</indication>
      <indication>Metrypertrophia</indication>
      <indication>Dysmenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Infertility</indication>
      <indication>Trichomonas vaginitis, reddish discharge</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain</indication>
      <indication>Raynaud&apos;s disease</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>dang gui</herb>
    <herb>chuan xiong</herb>
    <herb>tao ren</herb>
    <herb>pao jiang</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
  </constituents>
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