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Warms Yang and disperses Cold

Yin-type sores and swellings from Yang deficiency with Cold stagnating inside Deep, flat swellings without a head and without heat, redness or throbbing, the skin colour and texture unchanged or dusky, with little tendency to suppurate; may bleed into surrounding tissue; near bone they form a bone-attached abscess Deep, cold aching of joints or bones, with swollen painful joints, sometimes with nodules under the skin; worse with cold, better with warmth Thigh and calf muscles wasting away

Tonifies Blood

Cold with deficient Yang and Blood Pale face, cold limbs, no thirst and low vitality Tongue very pale or pale pink with a white coat; pulse thin and forceless, or deep and slow

Dissolves Cold-Phlegm and eliminates stagnation

Modern uses

Crane's knee Wind Arthritis of the knee Rheumatoid arthritis Polyarthritis Arthralgia and panarthralgia Cold joint pain and stiffness, including cases resembling osteoarthritis or ankylosing spondylitis Painful obstruction Vascular Bi Cervical spondylosis Prolapsed or degenerated lumbar intervertebral disc Sciatica Low back pain Bone spurs Idiopathic bone hyperplasia Periostitis Tuberculosis of bones and joints Lymphatic tuberculosis Pulmonary tuberculosis Peritoneal tuberculosis Chronic osteomyelitis Chronic lymphadenitis and chronic cold nodules Subcutaneous nodules Aseptic suppuration Multiple abscesses Cellulitis Chronic erysipelas Frostbite Thromboangiitis obliterans Arteritis obliterans Obliterating phlebitis Thrombophlebitis Raynaud's disease Gangrene of fingers and toes Peripheral neuritis Scleroderma Mastitis Fibrocystic breast disease Breast cancer Ovarian cysts Uterine fibroids Endometriosis, including early-stage Genital eruptions Benign prostatic hypertrophy Chronic colitis and chronic ulcerative colitis Chronic bronchitis Bronchial asthma Emphysema Lung fibrosis Sick sinus syndrome Hashimoto's thyroiditis Epilepsy Urticaria Alopecia Bone cancer and bone metastases shu di huang lu jiao jiao rou gui pao jiang bai jie zi ma huang gan cao