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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">gui zhi jia long gu mu li tang</name>
    <name type="english">Cinnamon Twig Decoction plus Dragon Bone and Oyster Shell</name>
  </names>
  <category>Stabilize the Kidneys</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Tonifies and harmonizes Yin and Yang</summary>
      <indication>Deficiency of both Yin and Yang, with the Heart and Kidneys no longer communicating</indication>
      <indication>Tai Yang Zhong Feng arising on a background of deficient Kidney Jing</indication>
      <indication>Hair loss, dizziness, poor appetite, sweating by day or at night</indication>
      <indication>Tight, contracted, painful lower abdomen; occasional watery diarrhea</indication>
      <indication>Tongue slightly pale; pulse hollow and slow, or hollow and slightly tight</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Harmonizes Ying and Wei</summary>
      <indication>Spontaneous sweating and night sweats from Ying and Wei out of balance</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Astringes Jing</summary>
      <indication>In men: seminal emission and wet dreams, with cold genitals or a cold feeling at the tip of the penis</indication>
      <indication>In women: sexual dreams and irregular periods</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Anchors floating Yang, calms the Spirit and subdues rebellion</summary>
      <indication>Palpitations, anxiety and being easily startled; low mood and lack of drive</indication>
      <indication>Light sleep full of dreams or nightmares, insomnia, poor memory</indication>
      <indication>Crying at night in infants</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Anxiety</indication>
      <indication>Anxiety neurosis</indication>
      <indication>Panic attacks</indication>
      <indication>PTSD (post-traumatic stress)</indication>
      <indication>Trauma-related hyperarousal</indication>
      <indication>Depression</indication>
      <indication>Post natal depression</indication>
      <indication>Hysteria</indication>
      <indication>Involutional psychosis</indication>
      <indication>Neurasthenia</indication>
      <indication>Nervous exhaustion</indication>
      <indication>Sexual neurosis</indication>
      <indication>Insomnia</indication>
      <indication>Night terrors</indication>
      <indication>Forgetfulness</indication>
      <indication>Epilepsy</indication>
      <indication>Dizziness</indication>
      <indication>Vertigo</indication>
      <indication>Palpitations</indication>
      <indication>Functional beats</indication>
      <indication>Sinus tachycardia</indication>
      <indication>Ventricular tachycardia</indication>
      <indication>Myocarditis</indication>
      <indication>Shock</indication>
      <indication>Hyperthyroidism</indication>
      <indication>Premenstrual syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Perimenopausal syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Menopausal syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Menopausal sleep disturbance</indication>
      <indication>Spermatorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Nocturnal emissions</indication>
      <indication>Premature ejaculation</indication>
      <indication>Impotence and erectile dysfunction</indication>
      <indication>Male infertility</indication>
      <indication>Benign prostatic hypertrophy</indication>
      <indication>Enuresis</indication>
      <indication>Night sweats</indication>
      <indication>Spontaneous perspiration</indication>
      <indication>Alopecia</indication>
      <indication>Urticaria</indication>
      <indication>Bronchial asthma</indication>
      <indication>Pediatric pneumonia</indication>
      <indication>Common cold</indication>
      <indication>Influenza</indication>
      <indication>Fever</indication>
      <indication>Chronic gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Anorexia</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>gui zhi</herb>
    <herb>Bai Shao</herb>
    <herb>long gu</herb>
    <herb>mu li</herb>
    <herb>sheng jiang</herb>
    <herb>da zao</herb>
    <herb>gan cao</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
