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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">shi hui san</name>
    <name type="english">Ten partially charred substances Powder</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Heat and Stop Bleeding</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Cools the Blood and stops bleeding</summary>
      <indication>Heat or Fire forcing the Blood out of the vessels, with sudden bleeding from the upper body</indication>
      <indication>Vomiting of blood, coughing or spitting of blood, and nosebleed, sudden in onset and often copious</indication>
      <indication>Bright or deep red blood, including blood in the saliva</indication>
      <indication>Bleeding from Heat in the Blood, from Fire in the Upper and Middle Jiao, or from the Liver attacking the Stomach</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat and drains Fire</summary>
      <indication>Flushed face, thirst, restlessness and a feeling of heat alongside the bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red; pulse rapid, often forceful or slippery</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Upper gastrointestinal bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Acute hemorrhagic gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Acute hemorrhagic esophagitis</indication>
      <indication>Bleeding peptic ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Pulmonary tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Bronchiectasis</indication>
      <indication>Hyphemia</indication>
      <indication>Dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Hemorrhagic febrile diseases</indication>
      <indication>Dysfunctional uterine bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Menorrhagia</indication>
      <indication>Epistaxis</indication>
      <indication>Hemoptysis</indication>
      <indication>Hematemesis</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>da ji</herb>
    <herb>xiao ji</herb>
    <herb>he ye</herb>
    <herb>ce bai ye</herb>
    <herb>bai mao gen</herb>
    <herb>qian cao gen</herb>
    <herb>zhi zi</herb>
    <herb>da huang</herb>
    <herb>mu dan pi</herb>
    <herb>zong lu pi</herb>
  </constituents>
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