Shan Zha Granules (6.7:1)

Hawthorn Fruit reduces food stagnation, especially from meat and greasy foods, invigorates the blood flow.* - Bensky

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.*