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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">xiao ji yin zi</name>
    <name type="english">Cephalanoplos Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Heat and Stop Bleeding</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Cools the Blood and stops bleeding</summary>
      <indication>Blood Lin: Heat pouring into the Lower Jiao and injuring the vessels of the Bladder</indication>
      <indication>Blood in the urine, ranging from faint to heavy, purplish red, at times clotted</indication>
      <indication>Bleeding of the gums and tongue</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat, promotes urination and unblocks painful urinary dysfunction</summary>
      <indication>Damp-Heat in the Bladder: frequent, urgent, burning and painful urination; scanty reddish urine</indication>
      <indication>Heart Fire with thirst and irritability; possible discomfort of the lower abdomen or low back</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red, or red at the tip, with a thin yellow coat; pulse rapid and forceful, or thin and rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Acute urinary tract infections and cystitis</indication>
      <indication>Acute glomerulonephritis</indication>
      <indication>Pyelonephritis</indication>
      <indication>Hematuria</indication>
      <indication>Proteinuria</indication>
      <indication>Urolithiasis and ureter stones</indication>
      <indication>Lithangiuria</indication>
      <indication>Strangury</indication>
      <indication>Scanty reddish urine</indication>
      <indication>Polyuria</indication>
      <indication>Enuresis</indication>
      <indication>Radiation cystitis</indication>
      <indication>Bleeding after urological procedures</indication>
      <indication>IgA nephropathy with hematuria</indication>
      <indication>Renal tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Polycystic kidneys and renal cysts</indication>
      <indication>Hydronephrosis</indication>
      <indication>Renal carcinoma</indication>
      <indication>Bladder tumor</indication>
      <indication>Prostatitis</indication>
      <indication>Benign prostatic hypertrophy</indication>
      <indication>Gonorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Low back pain</indication>
      <indication>Thrombocytopenic purpura</indication>
      <indication>Allergic purpura</indication>
      <indication>Hemophilia</indication>
      <indication>Sickle cell disease</indication>
      <indication>Periodontitis</indication>
      <indication>Glossitis</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>xiao ji</herb>
    <herb>ou jie</herb>
    <herb>pu huang</herb>
    <herb>sheng di huang</herb>
    <herb>hua shi</herb>
    <herb>mu tong</herb>
    <herb>dan zhu ye</herb>
    <herb>zhi zi</herb>
    <herb>dang gui</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
  </constituents>
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