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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">gu yin jian</name>
    <name type="english">Stabalize the Yin Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Nourish and Tonify Yin</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Enriches and tonifies the Kidneys and nourishes the Liver</summary>
      <indication>Kidney deficiency causing periods that come early or late</indication>
      <indication>Low back pain, which may be severe, with weak legs</indication>
      <indication>Dizziness, lightheadedness, vertigo and tinnitus</indication>
      <indication>Frequent erotic dreams and night-time urination</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Strengthens the Spleen</summary>
      <indication>Amenorrhea from Yang deficiency of the Kidney and Spleen</indication>
      <indication>Poor appetite, tiredness and soft stools</indication>
      <indication>Distension of the lower abdomen with a dragging, prolapsing feeling</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Regulates the Chong and Ren vessels and regulates menstruation</summary>
      <indication>Menses scanty and pale, sometimes mixed with vaginal discharge</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale with a thin coat; pulse deep and frail</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Early menstruation</indication>
      <indication>Late menstruation</indication>
      <indication>Irregular menstruation</indication>
      <indication>Amenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Metrorrhagia</indication>
      <indication>Leukorrhagia</indication>
      <indication>Chronic cervicitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic pelvic cellulitis</indication>
      <indication>Neurasthenia</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>ren shen</herb>
    <herb>shu di huang</herb>
    <herb>shan yao</herb>
    <herb>shan zhu yu</herb>
    <herb>yuan zhi</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
    <herb>wu wei zi</herb>
    <herb>tu si zi</herb>
  </constituents>
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