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  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <licence>Free to use and republish with visible attribution and a link back to the source page. The catalogue is a reference work and is knowingly incomplete; nothing in it is medical advice.</licence>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">shen qu</name>
    <name type="chinese">神曲</name>
    <name type="latin">Massa Medicata Fermentata</name>
    <name type="english">Medicated Leaven</name>
    <name type="japanese">shinkyoku</name>
    <name type="korean">singok</name>
  </names>
  <category>Relieve Food Stagnation</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Stomach</channel>
    <channel>Spleen</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Reduces Food Stagnation, aids digestion and harmonizes the Stomach</summary>
      <indication>Food stagnation or accumulation with Stomach Cold: fullness and distension of the epigastrium or abdomen, poor appetite and digestion, borborygmus and diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Stagnation from starchy grain foods, and the after-effects of alcohol</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Moves Qi</summary>
      <indication>Qi stagnation</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
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