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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">shi bu wan</name>
    <name type="english">Ten-Tonic Pill</name>
  </names>
  <category>Warm and Tonify the Yang</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms and tonifies Kidney Yang</summary>
      <indication>Declining Fire of the Ming Men</indication>
      <indication>Icy-cold genitals over a long period, with a retracted scrotum</indication>
      <indication>Hernia</indication>
      <indication>Weak, painful lower back, cold limbs and dislike of cold</indication>
      <indication>Lassitude and Qi deficiency with a bright white complexion</indication>
      <indication>Diarrhea at daybreak and copious clear urine</indication>
      <indication>Impotence, spermatorrhea and premature ejaculation</indication>
      <indication>Edema in severe cases</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale, puffy and moist, possibly with tooth marks, and a white coat; pulse slow or empty</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Cold genitals</indication>
      <indication>Impotence</indication>
      <indication>Spermatorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Hernia</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>zhi fu zi</herb>
    <herb>wu wei zi</herb>
    <herb>shan zhu yu</herb>
    <herb>shan yao</herb>
    <herb>mu dan pi</herb>
    <herb>lu rong</herb>
    <herb>shu di huang</herb>
    <herb>rou gui</herb>
    <herb>fu ling</herb>
    <herb>ze xie</herb>
  </constituents>
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