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  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">liu ji nu</name>
    <name type="chinese">刘寄奴</name>
    <name type="latin">Herba Artemisiae Anomalae</name>
    <name type="english">Anomalous Artemesia</name>
    <name type="japanese">ryukido</name>
    <name type="korean">yugino</name>
  </names>
  <category>Invigorate the Blood</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Spleen</channel>
    <channel>Heart</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Breaks up Blood stasis, promotes menstruation and relieves pain</summary>
      <indication>Amenorrhea from Blood stasis</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain after childbirth, or other abdominal pain, from severe stasis</indication>
      <indication>Traumatic injury such as sprains, bruising, fractures or falls, with severe pain and stasis</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Reduces Food stagnation, transforms accumulation and awakens the Spleen</summary>
      <indication>Food retention causing indigestion and a painful abdomen</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Applied topically as a powder</summary>
      <indication>Burns, bruises and bleeding wounds</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
