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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">da bu yin wan</name>
    <name type="english">Great Tonify the Yin Pill</name>
  </names>
  <category>Nourish and Tonify Yin</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Enriches Liver and Kidney Yin</summary>
      <indication>Liver and Kidney Yin deficiency with vigorous deficiency Fire; also Lung and Kidney Yin deficiency, and Liver Yin deficiency with rising Yang</indication>
      <indication>Wei (atrophy) disorder from Liver and Kidney deficiency: legs and knees weak and wasting, feet sore and flaccid</indication>
      <indication>Sore lower back and knees, with a general sense of debility</indication>
      <indication>Tinnitus, and dizziness or vertigo</indication>
      <indication>Cough, which may bring up blood-streaked sputum</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Directs deficiency Fire downward</summary>
      <indication>Bone-steaming: tidal or afternoon fever, heat felt deep in the bones, flushed cheeks and night sweats</indication>
      <indication>Hot flushes, heat in the palms, soles and chest, and a burning feeling over the Kidneys</indication>
      <indication>Knees that feel hot and painful, perhaps also weak</indication>
      <indication>Seminal emissions, spontaneous or at night</indication>
      <indication>Irritability, restlessness, fidgeting and quick anger</indication>
      <indication>Insomnia with heavy dreaming or nightmares</indication>
      <indication>Coughing or vomiting of blood</indication>
      <indication>Possibly constant hunger or constipation</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red with little or no coat; pulse thin and rapid, or rapid and forceful, most marked at the rear (Chi) position</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Pulmonary tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Bone tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Renal tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Bronchiectasis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Upper respiratory tract infection</indication>
      <indication>Cough</indication>
      <indication>Hemoptysis</indication>
      <indication>Dyspnea</indication>
      <indication>Hoarseness</indication>
      <indication>Sore throat</indication>
      <indication>Diabetes mellitus</indication>
      <indication>Hyperthyroidism (Graves&apos; disease)</indication>
      <indication>Addison&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Neurasthenia</indication>
      <indication>Insomnia</indication>
      <indication>Anxiety</indication>
      <indication>Forgetfulness</indication>
      <indication>Drug abuse</indication>
      <indication>Heel pain</indication>
      <indication>Knee pain</indication>
      <indication>Low back pain</indication>
      <indication>Weakness</indication>
      <indication>Spermatorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Nocturnal emissions</indication>
      <indication>Epididymitis</indication>
      <indication>Urinary tract infection</indication>
      <indication>Hematuria</indication>
      <indication>Chronic nephritis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic glomerulonephritis</indication>
      <indication>Vertigo</indication>
      <indication>Dizziness</indication>
      <indication>Meniere&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Tinnitus</indication>
      <indication>Deafness</indication>
      <indication>Myasthenia gravis</indication>
      <indication>Multiple sclerosis</indication>
      <indication>Polyneuritis</indication>
      <indication>Acute infectious polyneuritis</indication>
      <indication>Guillain-Barre syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Acute myelitis</indication>
      <indication>Progressive muscular dystrophy</indication>
      <indication>Sequelae of poliomyelitis</indication>
      <indication>Atrophy (Wei) syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Hysterical paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Periodic paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Facial paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Numbness</indication>
      <indication>Paresthesia</indication>
      <indication>Tremors</indication>
      <indication>Parkinson&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>AIDS/HIV</indication>
      <indication>Scrofula or lymphadenopathy with AIDS/HIV</indication>
      <indication>Cervical lymphadenopathy</indication>
      <indication>Lupus erythematosus</indication>
      <indication>Temporomandibular joint syndrome (TMJ)</indication>
      <indication>Red eyes</indication>
      <indication>Dry skin</indication>
      <indication>Afternoon fever</indication>
      <indication>Fever</indication>
      <indication>Night sweats</indication>
      <indication>Constipation</indication>
      <indication>Menopause</indication>
      <indication>Menopausal hot flushes and night sweats</indication>
      <indication>Late menstruation</indication>
      <indication>Irregular menstruation</indication>
      <indication>Anemia</indication>
      <indication>Thrombocytopenic purpura</indication>
      <indication>Hematemesis</indication>
      <indication>Hypertension</indication>
      <indication>Congestive heart failure</indication>
      <indication>Ascites</indication>
      <indication>Cirrhosis of the liver</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>shu di huang</herb>
    <herb>su jiu gui ban</herb>
    <herb>huang bai</herb>
    <herb>jiu chao zhi mu</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
