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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">zhi shi dao zhi wan</name>
    <name type="english">Immature Bitter Orange Pill to Guide out Stagnation</name>
  </names>
  <category>Formulas that Reduce Food Stagnation</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Reduces and guides out stagnation and accumulation</summary>
      <indication>Food stagnating in the Stomach and turning into Damp-Heat, with obstruction of the Intestines</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhoea after injury by food</indication>
      <indication>Epigastric and abdominal distension, with abdominal pain that gets worse on pressure</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat and dispels Damp</summary>
      <indication>Dysenteric diarrhoea, or constipation, with dark and scanty urine</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red with a greasy or slippery yellow coat; pulse deep and forceful</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Diarrhoea from food injury</indication>
      <indication>Acute indigestion</indication>
      <indication>Acute or chronic gastroenteritis</indication>
      <indication>Acute enteritis</indication>
      <indication>Gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Gastric ulcer</indication>
      <indication>Acid reflux</indication>
      <indication>Nausea and vomiting</indication>
      <indication>Anorexia</indication>
      <indication>Bad breath</indication>
      <indication>Constipation</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal distension and fullness</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain</indication>
      <indication>Dysenteric disorders</indication>
      <indication>Hematemesis</indication>
      <indication>Acute hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Cirrhosis of the liver</indication>
      <indication>Urinary tract infection</indication>
      <indication>Oliguria</indication>
      <indication>Asthma</indication>
      <indication>Bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Trigeminal neuralgia</indication>
      <indication>Epstein-Barr virus syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Myalgic encephalomyelitis</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>zhi shi</herb>
    <herb>da huang</herb>
    <herb>shen qu</herb>
    <herb>fu ling</herb>
    <herb>huang qin</herb>
    <herb>huang lian</herb>
    <herb>bai zhu</herb>
    <herb>ze xie</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
