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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">you gui wan</name>
    <name type="english">Restore the Right (kidney) Pill</name>
  </names>
  <category>Warm and Tonify the Yang</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms and tonifies Kidney Yang</summary>
      <indication>Kidney Yang Deficiency with decline of the Ming Men Fire, sometimes with Deficiency Cold of the Spleen and Stomach</indication>
      <indication>Exhaustion after a long illness, low energy and lethargy</indication>
      <indication>Aversion to cold with cold limbs, pale face and spontaneous sweating</indication>
      <indication>Dizziness, with the knees and lower back weak and aching</indication>
      <indication>Impotence, premature ejaculation, spermatorrhea or seminal emission; infertility</indication>
      <indication>Copious clear urine, urinary incontinence or enuresis; edema of the legs</indication>
      <indication>Loose stools, sometimes with undigested food, or diarrhea at daybreak</indication>
      <indication>Emaciation in some cases</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale and swollen with a thin white coat; pulse deep, slow and weak, or thin, especially at the proximal position</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Replenishes Jing and nourishes Blood</summary>
      <indication>Insufficiency of Essence and Blood that comes with long-standing Kidney depletion</indication>
      <indication>Wei (atrophy) syndrome arising from Deficiency of Kidney Qi and Yang</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Nephrotic syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Osteoporosis</indication>
      <indication>Infertility</indication>
      <indication>Impotence, notably with a low sperm count</indication>
      <indication>Erectile dysfunction</indication>
      <indication>Sperm abnormality</indication>
      <indication>Spermatorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Nocturnal emissions</indication>
      <indication>Anemia</indication>
      <indication>Leukopenia</indication>
      <indication>Metrorrhagia</indication>
      <indication>Irregular menstruation</indication>
      <indication>Late menstruation</indication>
      <indication>Amenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Vaginal discharge</indication>
      <indication>Menopause</indication>
      <indication>Post-menopausal uterine bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Prevention of premature ovarian failure</indication>
      <indication>Polycystic ovary syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Ovarian and endometrial disorders</indication>
      <indication>Chronic pelvic inflammatory disease</indication>
      <indication>Multiple sclerosis</indication>
      <indication>Myasthenia gravis</indication>
      <indication>Polyneuritis</indication>
      <indication>Acute infectious multiple neuritis</indication>
      <indication>Guillain-Barre disease</indication>
      <indication>Acute myelitis</indication>
      <indication>Hypertrophic myelitis</indication>
      <indication>Progressive muscular dystrophy</indication>
      <indication>After-effects of poliomyelitis</indication>
      <indication>Wei (atrophy) syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Hysterical paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Periodic paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Facial paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Dizziness</indication>
      <indication>Vertigo</indication>
      <indication>Meniere&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Headache</indication>
      <indication>Forgetfulness</indication>
      <indication>Senility</indication>
      <indication>Neurosis</indication>
      <indication>Prostatic hypertrophy</indication>
      <indication>Polyuria</indication>
      <indication>Frequent urination</indication>
      <indication>Urinary incontinence</indication>
      <indication>Strangury</indication>
      <indication>Interstitial cystitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic nephritis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic glomerulonephritis</indication>
      <indication>Myalgic encephalomyelitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic fatigue syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Epstein-Barr virus syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Weakness</indication>
      <indication>Knee pain</indication>
      <indication>Lumbago</indication>
      <indication>Chronic low back disorders</indication>
      <indication>Sciatica</indication>
      <indication>Neck stiffness</indication>
      <indication>Hyperlipoproteinemia</indication>
      <indication>Obesity</indication>
      <indication>Diabetes</indication>
      <indication>Hypothyroidism and other cold, underactive states</indication>
      <indication>Addison&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Heart palpitations</indication>
      <indication>Spontaneous perspiration</indication>
      <indication>Dyspnea</indication>
      <indication>Asthma</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain</indication>
      <indication>Dysphagia</indication>
      <indication>Lower limb edema</indication>
      <indication>Epistaxis</indication>
      <indication>Gingivitis</indication>
      <indication>Periodontitis</indication>
      <indication>Retinitis pigmentosa</indication>
      <indication>Glaucoma</indication>
      <indication>Blepharitis</indication>
      <indication>Optic atrophy</indication>
      <indication>AIDS/HIV/ARC</indication>
      <indication>Breast cancer chemotherapy</indication>
      <indication>Prematurely gray hair</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>zhi fu zi</herb>
    <herb>rou gui</herb>
    <herb>lu jiao jiao</herb>
    <herb>shu di huang</herb>
    <herb>shan zhu yu</herb>
    <herb>shan yao</herb>
    <herb>gou qi zi</herb>
    <herb>tu si zi</herb>
    <herb>du zhong</herb>
    <herb>dang gui</herb>
  </constituents>
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