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sour, sweet, sl warm, SP, St, Lv
reduces and transforms food accum, esp meat or greasy foods, food accum w QI stagnation causing severe distention and pain, promotes Qi movement, dysentary w accum, hernia w ab pain, postpartum ab pain and lingering bleeding w blood clots, or dysmenorrhea due to blood stasis, currently used alone in high dosage for heart disease |
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sweet, acrid, warm, Sp/St
reduce food stag and harmonize St, esp for food stag w exterior syndrome or drink alcohol, helps digest herbs of minerals and shells |
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sweet, neutral, Sp, St, Lv
reduce food stag, strengthen St, esp due to starchy food, milk stag in infants, reduced appetite, fullness and distention after meal due to Sp def, inhibits lactation and relieves distention, spreads Lv and relieves constrained Qi |
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acrid, sweet, neutral, Sp, St, Lu
reduce food stag, eliminates distension, for food stag w dysentary marked by tenesmus, descends and rebellious Qi, transforms phlegm |
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sweet, neutral, Sp, St, Si, UB
strongly reduce food stag, strengthen St, severe cases w distention and fullness, Gan Ji (similar to childhood nutritional impairment) due to Sp def and food accum or parasites, secures essence, stops spermatorrhea and enuresis, transforms and dissolves stones |
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acrid, bitter, warm, Li, St
Kills parasites, best effect for treating tapeworms, treating roundworm and pinworm, treating fasciolopsis, reduce food accum w Qi stag, promote Qi movement and urination, checks malaria |
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