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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">you gui yin</name>
    <name type="english">Restore the Right (kidney) Decoction</name>
  </names>
  <category>Warm and Tonify the Yang</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Warms Kidney Yang</summary>
      <indication>Kidney Yang Deficiency</indication>
      <indication>True Cold with false Heat</indication>
      <indication>Separation of Yang</indication>
      <indication>Feebleness and exhaustion, low energy, lethargy and fatigue, with shortness of breath</indication>
      <indication>Cold limbs; cold, painful knees; lower back pain and abdominal pain</indication>
      <indication>Frequent clear urination</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pale with a white coat; pulse thin, or deep, thready and weak</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Replenishes Jing</summary>
      <indication>Impotence, premature ejaculation and nocturnal emission</indication>
      <indication>Wei (atrophy) disorder arising from Deficiency of Kidney Qi and Yang</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Hypothyroidism</indication>
      <indication>Sheehan&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Addison&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Skin Bi</indication>
      <indication>Alopecia</indication>
      <indication>Myasthenia gravis</indication>
      <indication>Multiple sclerosis</indication>
      <indication>Polyneuritis</indication>
      <indication>Acute infectious multiple neuritis</indication>
      <indication>Guillain-Barre disease</indication>
      <indication>Acute 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>Neurasthenia</indication>
      <indication>Diabetes</indication>
      <indication>Chronic bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Dyspnea</indication>
      <indication>Weakness</indication>
      <indication>Nocturnal emissions</indication>
      <indication>Constipation</indication>
      <indication>Urinary retention</indication>
      <indication>Chronic nephritis</indication>
      <indication>Leukopenia</indication>
      <indication>Abdominal pain</indication>
      <indication>Premature ovarian failure (preventive use)</indication>
      <indication>Behcet&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Osteoporosis</indication>
      <indication>Neck pain and stiffness</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>shu di huang</herb>
    <herb>shan yao</herb>
    <herb>shan zhu yu</herb>
    <herb>gou qi zi</herb>
    <herb>zhi gan cao</herb>
    <herb>du zhong</herb>
    <herb>rou gui</herb>
    <herb>zhi fu zi</herb>
  </constituents>
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