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  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <licence>Free to use and republish with visible attribution and a link back to the source page. The catalogue is a reference work and is knowingly incomplete; nothing in it is medical advice.</licence>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">shi di tang</name>
    <name type="english">Persimmon Calyx Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Direct Rebellious Qi Downward</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms the Middle Jiao</summary>
      <indication>Stomach Cold</indication>
      <indication>Poor appetite</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale with a white coat; pulse slow, deep and wiry</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Descends Qi</summary>
      <indication>Hiccups and persistent belching</indication>
      <indication>Fullness, distention and a stifling feeling in the chest, epigastrium and abdomen</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Hiccups</indication>
      <indication>Belching</indication>
      <indication>Persistent hiccups from stomach cancer</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>ding xiang</herb>
    <herb>shi di</herb>
    <herb>sheng jiang</herb>
  </constituents>
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