Shan Zha 100 grams

Shan Zha Granules, 100g Bottle

Brand: TCM Zone

English name: Crataegus Fruit / Hawthorn Fruit Granules

Chinese name: Shan Zha Granules

Unit Size: 100g Bottle

Potency: 5:1 extract granules

Taste: Sour, Sweet - Bensky

Properties: Slightly warm - Bensky

Contraindications: Use with caution in those with weakness or deficiency of the Spleen and Stomach. Large doses are absolutely contraindicated during pregnancy, as this can lead to fetal death. - Bensky

Chinese Symptomology: Abdominal distention, pain or diarrhea due to food stagnation; post-partum pain and clumps due to blood stasis; bulging disorders - Bensky

Actions: Reduces food stagnation, especially from meat and greasy foods, invigorates the blood flow, alleviates diarrhea and dysentery. - Bensky

Pattern: Food stagnation, blood stasis - Bensky

Channels Entered: Liver, Spleen, Stomach - Bensky

Ingredients

Shan Zha - Crataegi Fructus

Excerpted from Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

• Reduces food stagnation and transforms accumulation: for accumulation due to meat or greasy foods with abdominal distention, pain, or diarrhea.
• Transforms blood stasis and dissipates clumps: for post-partum abdominal pain and clumps due to blood stasis. Also for bulging disorders.
• Stops diarrhea: the partially charred herb is used for the diarrhea of chronic dysentery-like disorders.
• Also recently used for hypertension, coronary artery disease, and elevated serum cholesterol.

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