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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">wu mei wan</name>
    <name type="english">Mume Pill</name>
  </names>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms the organs and the Middle Jiao</summary>
      <indication>Jue Yin pattern of mixed Cold and Heat: Heat in the Stomach above with Cold in the Intestines below</indication>
      <indication>Collapse from roundworms: bouts of severe colicky pain in the upper abdomen that stop suddenly and return, restlessness during attacks, very cold hands and feet</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain eased by warmth and pressure, rumbling intestines, pain below the Heart</indication>
      <indication>Running piglet Qi</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat</summary>
      <indication>Warmth, stuffiness and irritability in the chest and epigastrium; burning pain in the Stomach</indication>
      <indication>Hunger without wanting to eat, bitter taste, dry throat and thirst that drinking does not satisfy</indication>
      <indication>Stomach Heat with Kidney deficiency: frequent or turbid urination, anxiety</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Calms roundworms and relieves pain</summary>
      <indication>Vomiting soon after eating, sometimes bringing up roundworms; recurring nausea</indication>
      <indication>Pain brought on or worsened by food</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Tonifies Qi and Blood and astringes the Intestines</summary>
      <indication>Chronic, recurrent diarrhea or dysentery, at times with a little pus, from Liver-Spleen disharmony where Cold and Heat are mixed</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red, pale or geographic with a white coat, or not uniformly pale or red with a white or yellow-white coat; pulse hidden, wiry and tight, or wiry and possibly thin or weak</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Ascariasis, including biliary, intestinal and childhood ascariasis</indication>
      <indication>Roundworms lodged in the bile duct</indication>
      <indication>Hookworms</indication>
      <indication>Schistosomiasis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic gastroenteritis</indication>
      <indication>Gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Gastric or peptic ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Gastralgia</indication>
      <indication>Functional gastric disorders</indication>
      <indication>Post-gastrectomy syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Indigestion</indication>
      <indication>Anorexia</indication>
      <indication>Nausea and vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Neurogenic vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Morning sickness</indication>
      <indication>Recalcitrant hiccups</indication>
      <indication>Colitis</indication>
      <indication>Ulcerative colitis</indication>
      <indication>Irritable bowel syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Intestinal colic</indication>
      <indication>Chronic diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhea complicating HIV/AIDS</indication>
      <indication>Bacterial dysentery, including chronic bacillary dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain</indication>
      <indication>Cholecystitis</indication>
      <indication>Cholelithiasis</indication>
      <indication>Jaundice</indication>
      <indication>Chyluria</indication>
      <indication>Edema</indication>
      <indication>Chronic pelvic inflammatory disease</indication>
      <indication>Primary dysmenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Endometriosis</indication>
      <indication>Uterine fibroids</indication>
      <indication>Dysfunctional uterine bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Corneal ulcers</indication>
      <indication>Keratitis</indication>
      <indication>Glaucoma</indication>
      <indication>Meniere&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Chronic suppurative otitis media</indication>
      <indication>Aphthous ulcers</indication>
      <indication>Temporomandibular joint syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Headache</indication>
      <indication>Neurogenic headache</indication>
      <indication>Autonomic dystonia</indication>
      <indication>Neurosis</indication>
      <indication>Hysterical psychosis</indication>
      <indication>Insomnia</indication>
      <indication>After-effects of meningitis or encephalitis</indication>
      <indication>Asthma</indication>
      <indication>Pneumonia</indication>
      <indication>Fever</indication>
      <indication>Hypertension</indication>
      <indication>Sick sinus syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Diabetes</indication>
      <indication>Vitiligo</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>wu mei</herb>
    <herb>chuan jiao</herb>
    <herb>xi xin</herb>
    <herb>huang lian</herb>
    <herb>huang bai</herb>
    <herb>gan jiang</herb>
    <herb>zhi fu zi</herb>
    <herb>gui zhi</herb>
    <herb>ren shen</herb>
    <herb>dang gui</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
