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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">gui lu er xian jiao</name>
    <name type="english">Tortoise Shell and Deer Antler Syrup</name>
  </names>
  <category>Warm and Tonify the Yang</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Nourishes and replenishes Yin</summary>
      <indication>Kidney Yin and Yang both deficient, with Jing and Blood depleted in the Du, Chong and Ren channels</indication>
      <indication>Wasting and loss of weight</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pink or pale with a white coat or none; pulse thready and frail, or deep, slow and weak</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Tonifies Jing and nourishes the Blood</summary>
      <indication>Dizziness with blurred vision</indication>
      <indication>Spermatorrhoea and nocturnal emissions</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Augments Qi</summary>
      <indication>General weakness</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Tonifies and strengthens Yang</summary>
      <indication>Aching, weak lower back and knees</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhoea at daybreak</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Severe anemia</indication>
      <indication>Endocrine-related developmental disorders</indication>
      <indication>Hypothyroidism</indication>
      <indication>Menopause syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Impotence</indication>
      <indication>Spermatorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Nocturnal emissions</indication>
      <indication>Polyuria</indication>
      <indication>Hematuria</indication>
      <indication>Nervous exhaustion</indication>
      <indication>Weakness</indication>
      <indication>Dizziness</indication>
      <indication>Hypotension</indication>
      <indication>Osteoporosis</indication>
      <indication>Lumbago</indication>
      <indication>Knee pain</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhea</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>lu jiao</herb>
    <herb>gui ban</herb>
    <herb>gou qi zi</herb>
    <herb>ren shen</herb>
  </constituents>
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