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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">tian tai wu yao san</name>
    <name type="english">Top-Quality Lindera Powder</name>
  </names>
  <category>Promote Movement of Qi</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Moves Qi and spreads Liver Qi</summary>
      <indication>Hernial (shan) disorder from Cold stagnating in the Liver channel, or Qi pain of the Small Intestine; an excess pattern</indication>
      <indication>Lower abdominal pain that spreads to the testicle, or a swollen, distended, hard and painful testicle</indication>
      <indication>Pain under the ribs and in the flanks, abdominal pain and masses in the abdomen that move</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Scatters Cold and stops pain</summary>
      <indication>Pain brought on or worsened by cold and eased by warmth, perhaps with a local feeling of cold, or a dull, dragging pain</indication>
      <indication>Cold-type painful periods with hardness, lower abdominal cramping, and vaginal discharge</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale with a white coat; pulse deep and slow, or wiry and tight</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Hernia</indication>
      <indication>Inguinal hernia</indication>
      <indication>Scrotal hernia</indication>
      <indication>Vaginal or testicular hernia</indication>
      <indication>Small intestine hernia</indication>
      <indication>Pain linked with inguinal hernia</indication>
      <indication>Orchitis</indication>
      <indication>Epididymitis</indication>
      <indication>Heaviness from hydrocele</indication>
      <indication>Prostatitis</indication>
      <indication>Dysmenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Primary dysmenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Endometriosis</indication>
      <indication>Pelvic inflammatory disease</indication>
      <indication>Infertility</indication>
      <indication>Vaginal discharge</indication>
      <indication>Irritable bowel syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Colitis</indication>
      <indication>Gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Peptic ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Intestinal obstruction</indication>
      <indication>Constipation</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain</indication>
      <indication>Hypochondriac pain</indication>
      <indication>Low back pain</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>wu yao</herb>
    <herb>mu xiang</herb>
    <herb>xiao hui xiang</herb>
    <herb>qing pi</herb>
    <herb>gao liang jiang</herb>
    <herb>bing lang</herb>
    <herb>jin ling zi</herb>
    <herb>ba dou</herb>
  </constituents>
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