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  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">yu nu jian</name>
    <name type="english">Jade Women Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Heat from Organs</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Stomach Heat</summary>
      <indication>Blazing Stomach Fire over deficient Yin of the Stomach and Kidney, with the Fire damaging Kidney Yin</indication>
      <indication>Toothache and loose teeth, with gums that are swollen, painful or bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Frontal headache, following the Stomach channel</indication>
      <indication>Fever with a feeling of heat, irritability, restlessness and agitation</indication>
      <indication>Nosebleed, or coughing or vomiting of blood</indication>
      <indication>Strong hunger and thirst in wasting-thirst (xiao ke) of this pattern</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Nourishes Yin</summary>
      <indication>Thirst with a wish for cold drinks; dry mouth and throat</indication>
      <indication>Night sweats</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red and dry with a white, dry yellow or thin yellow coat; pulse rapid and thin, or floating, slippery, large and deficient, or flooding and rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Toothache</indication>
      <indication>Periodontitis</indication>
      <indication>Gingivitis</indication>
      <indication>Bleeding gums</indication>
      <indication>Stomatitis</indication>
      <indication>Oral inflammation</indication>
      <indication>Mouth ulcers</indication>
      <indication>Glossitis</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pain</indication>
      <indication>Trigeminal neuralgia</indication>
      <indication>Headache</indication>
      <indication>Tinnitus</indication>
      <indication>Chronic gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Stomach flu</indication>
      <indication>Indigestion</indication>
      <indication>Acid reflux</indication>
      <indication>Peptic ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Bleeding peptic ulcers</indication>
      <indication>Stomach cancer</indication>
      <indication>Chronic colitis</indication>
      <indication>Dysentery</indication>
      <indication>Acute pancreatitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic pancreatitis</indication>
      <indication>Cholecystitis</indication>
      <indication>Diabetes mellitus</indication>
      <indication>Hyperglycemia</indication>
      <indication>Hyperthyroidism</indication>
      <indication>Behcet&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Allergic purpura</indication>
      <indication>Thrombocytopenic purpura</indication>
      <indication>Epistaxis</indication>
      <indication>Hemoptysis</indication>
      <indication>Hematemesis</indication>
      <indication>Blood in the stool</indication>
      <indication>Viral myocarditis</indication>
      <indication>Pneumonia</indication>
      <indication>Fever</indication>
      <indication>Night sweats</indication>
      <indication>Dysmenorrhea</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>shi gao</herb>
    <herb>shu di huang</herb>
    <herb>zhi mu</herb>
    <herb>mai men dong</herb>
    <herb>huai niu xi</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
