Shan Zha Capsules

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.