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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">xuan fu dai zhe tang</name>
    <name type="english">Inula and Haematite Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Direct Rebellious Qi Downward</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Descends rebellious Qi and harmonises the Stomach</summary>
      <indication>Stomach Qi rebelling upward because the Stomach is deficient and turbid Phlegm obstructs the middle</indication>
      <indication>Belching that will not stop, typically after illness was mistreated with excessive sweating, purging or vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Hiccups, nausea, or bringing up saliva, Phlegm and fluid, all persistent</indication>
      <indication>Vomiting shortly after eating</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Transforms Phlegm</summary>
      <indication>Focal fullness or hard distension below the heart and in the abdomen</indication>
      <indication>Frequent salivation and frequent urination</indication>
      <indication>Tongue normal with a slippery or smooth white coat; pulse wiry and deficient, or wiry, taut and feeble</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Augments Qi</summary>
      <indication>Fatigue and a reduced appetite from a weakened Stomach</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Belching</indication>
      <indication>Hiccups, including after surgery</indication>
      <indication>Acid reflux, heartburn and sour stomach</indication>
      <indication>GERD; reflux oesophagitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Functional dyspepsia and indigestion</indication>
      <indication>Peptic or duodenal ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Gastroptosis</indication>
      <indication>Gastric dilation (gastrectasis)</indication>
      <indication>Gastric diverticulosis</indication>
      <indication>Hiatus hernia</indication>
      <indication>Incomplete pyloric obstruction</indication>
      <indication>Gastroesophageal junction spasm</indication>
      <indication>Dysphagia</indication>
      <indication>Globus hystericus</indication>
      <indication>Pharyngoneurosis</indication>
      <indication>Gastrointestinal neurosis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic gastroenteritis</indication>
      <indication>Irritable bowel syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhoea</indication>
      <indication>Hypoacidity</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal distension</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal Cold</indication>
      <indication>Nausea and vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Nausea from chemotherapy, including for breast cancer</indication>
      <indication>Morning sickness</indication>
      <indication>Toxaemia of pregnancy</indication>
      <indication>Vomiting in children</indication>
      <indication>Chronic hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Cholecystitis</indication>
      <indication>Oesophageal cancer</indication>
      <indication>Gastric cancer</indication>
      <indication>Liver cancer</indication>
      <indication>Bronchial asthma</indication>
      <indication>Asthma with profuse Phlegm</indication>
      <indication>Bronchiectasis</indication>
      <indication>Meniere&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Dizziness and vertigo</indication>
      <indication>Hypertension</indication>
      <indication>Sequelae of meningitis</indication>
      <indication>Otitis media</indication>
      <indication>Scleroderma</indication>
      <indication>Hypothyroidism</indication>
      <indication>Cold extremities</indication>
      <indication>Somnolence</indication>
      <indication>Anorexia</indication>
      <indication>Emaciation</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>xuan fu hua</herb>
    <herb>dai zhe shi</herb>
    <herb>ban xia</herb>
    <herb>sheng jiang</herb>
    <herb>ren shen</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
    <herb>da zao</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
