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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">wu lin san</name>
    <name type="english">Five Ingredient Powder for Painful Urinary Dysfunction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Damp Heat</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat and cools the Blood</summary>
      <indication>Damp-Heat painful urinary dysfunction with blood in the urine</indication>
      <indication>Painful, difficult passing of red urine containing many small stones</indication>
      <indication>Dark urine and tiredness</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Promotes urination and unblocks painful urinary dysfunction</summary>
      <indication>Possible sudden pain of the lower abdomen or around the navel, or hernia</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Urethritis</indication>
      <indication>Cystitis</indication>
      <indication>Pyelonephritis</indication>
      <indication>Acute glomerulonephritis</indication>
      <indication>Urinary calculi</indication>
      <indication>Renal calculi</indication>
      <indication>Hematuria</indication>
      <indication>Oliguria</indication>
      <indication>Acute prostatitis</indication>
      <indication>Prostatic hypertrophy</indication>
      <indication>Gonorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Postpartum urinary disorder</indication>
      <indication>Dysuria during pregnancy</indication>
      <indication>Edema during pregnancy</indication>
      <indication>Appendicitis</indication>
      <indication>Hernia</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>chi fu ling</herb>
    <herb>dang gui</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
    <herb>chi shao</herb>
    <herb>zhi zi</herb>
  </constituents>
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