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Nourishes Blood and Yin

Blood and Yin deficiency leaving the sinews unnourished Calf pain from deficient Blood or injured fluids Insufficiency of both Yin and Yang Weakness of the legs

Softens the Liver and relaxes spasm to stop pain

Painful cramps that suddenly seize the calves and legs, mostly at rest or during the night, and ease with warmth or pressure Cramping of the hands, and abdominal pain that eases with pressure Hypertonic limbs that are hard to bend and straighten Severe spasm pain of the stomach, bronchi, gallbladder, uterus or intestines Pulling pain of the head, body or limbs from arterial spasm Sciatic pain and shoulder pain Irritability with slight chills Tongue normal, reddish or pale, with no coat or a yellowish one; pulse wiry and rapid, thin and rapid, or thin and wiry

Harmonizes the Liver and Spleen and the Middle Jiao

Liver and Spleen out of harmony Constipation, diarrhea or vomiting Cough, wheezing or hiccup

Modern uses

Nocturnal leg cramps in people on hemodialysis Lumbar spinal stenosis cramps Cramping calf muscles Calf spasm Systremma Restless leg syndrome Muscle spasms in the waist and back Pain and discomfort from spasm of skeletal muscles, ligaments and related tissues Fibromyalgia Muscular rheumatism Rheumatoid arthritis Acute lumbar strain Lumbago Cervical spine syndrome Cervical spondylosis Disc disease Hyperosteogeny Spinal osteophytes Heel pain Femoral head necrosis Frozen shoulder Periarthritis of the shoulder Palsy in the legs Post-stroke contractures Neuralgia Intercostal neuralgia Sciatica Trigeminal neuralgia Post-herpetic neuralgia Diabetic neuropathy Facial tics Essential tremors Parkinson's disease Bruxism Convulsions Night terrors Noctiphobia Gastric spasm Intestinal cramps Gastrointestinal spasm of the irritable-bowel type Abdominal pain Chronic gastritis Atrophic gastritis Peptic ulcers Indigestion Colitis Chronic colitis Ulcerative colitis Bacillary dysentery Habitual constipation Intestinal adhesions Anal fissures Hemorrhoid pain Hernia pain Biliary colic Cholelithiasis pain Chronic hepatitis End-stage hepatic carcinoma Chronic pancreatitis Upper gastrointestinal bleeding Renal colic Nephrolithiasis pain Urolithiasis pain Bladder pain Dysuria Enuresis Primary dysmenorrhea Chronic pelvic inflammatory disease Perimenopause with uterine leiomyoma Drug-induced menopause Threatened miscarriage Infertility Hypertestosteronemia Vaginismus Acute mastitis Impotence from raised prolactin Priapism Bronchial asthma Spasmodic cough Pertussis Laryngeal spasm Recalcitrant hiccups Bronchiectasis Coronary artery disease Atrial fibrillation Allergic purpura Purpura Thrombocytopenic purpura Recurrent epistaxis Myasthenia gravis Diabetes Beriberi Toothache Weakness shao yao zhi gan cao