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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">zuo gui wan</name>
    <name type="english">Restore the Left (kidney) Pill</name>
  </names>
  <category>Nourish and Tonify Yin</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Nourishes Yin and tonifies the Kidneys</summary>
      <indication>Yin deficiency of Liver and Kidney, affecting Jing and marrow above all</indication>
      <indication>Wasting and weakness (Wei syndrome) from Liver and Kidney deficiency</indication>
      <indication>Dry throat and mouth, thirst and wanting to drink, malar flush, heat in the palms and soles, night sweats and spontaneous sweating</indication>
      <indication>Insomnia</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red and shiny with little or no coat; pulse thin and rapid</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Supplements Jing and benefits the marrow</summary>
      <indication>Insufficient Kidney Jing</indication>
      <indication>Light-headedness, dizziness and vertigo, tinnitus or deafness, forgetfulness and poor vision</indication>
      <indication>Sore, weak lower back and legs</indication>
      <indication>Loss of hair and teeth</indication>
      <indication>Seminal emissions, spontaneous or at night, and dribbling urine</indication>
      <indication>Infertility, absent periods or uterine bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Rhinitis</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Chronic lumbago</indication>
      <indication>Low back pain</indication>
      <indication>Lumbar strain</indication>
      <indication>Herniated lumbar disc</indication>
      <indication>Knee pain</indication>
      <indication>Heel pain</indication>
      <indication>Foot pain</indication>
      <indication>Tuberculosis of the bones</indication>
      <indication>Atrophy (Wei) syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Myasthenia gravis</indication>
      <indication>Multiple sclerosis</indication>
      <indication>Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)</indication>
      <indication>Guillain-Barre syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Acute myelitis</indication>
      <indication>Polyneuritis and multiple neuritis</indication>
      <indication>Acute infectious multiple neuritis</indication>
      <indication>Progressive muscular dystrophy</indication>
      <indication>After-effects of poliomyelitis</indication>
      <indication>Periodic paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Hysterical paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Facial paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Parkinson&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Senile dementia</indication>
      <indication>Forgetfulness</indication>
      <indication>Insomnia</indication>
      <indication>Dizziness</indication>
      <indication>Vertigo</indication>
      <indication>Meniere&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Deafness</indication>
      <indication>Optic atrophy</indication>
      <indication>Hypertension, particularly in older people</indication>
      <indication>Diabetes</indication>
      <indication>Polyuria</indication>
      <indication>Hyperthyroidism</indication>
      <indication>Addison&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Obesity</indication>
      <indication>Chronic nephritis</indication>
      <indication>Impotence</indication>
      <indication>Spermatorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Sperm abnormality</indication>
      <indication>Male menopause</indication>
      <indication>Menopausal syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Hot flushes</indication>
      <indication>Night sweats</indication>
      <indication>Spontaneous sweating</indication>
      <indication>Infertility</indication>
      <indication>Infertility from premature ovarian failure</indication>
      <indication>Amenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Scanty menstruation</indication>
      <indication>Late menstruation</indication>
      <indication>Uterine bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Intestinal hemorrhage</indication>
      <indication>Anemia</indication>
      <indication>Chronic bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic pharyngitis</indication>
      <indication>Acute gastritis</indication>
      <indication>Alopecia</indication>
      <indication>Fatigue</indication>
      <indication>Weakness</indication>
      <indication>Epstein-Barr virus syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Myalgic encephalomyelitis</indication>
      <indication>Breast cancer, during chemotherapy</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>shu di huang</herb>
    <herb>shan yao</herb>
    <herb>gou qi zi</herb>
    <herb>shan zhu yu</herb>
    <herb>chuan niu xi</herb>
    <herb>tu si zi</herb>
    <herb>lu jiao jiao</herb>
    <herb>gui jiao</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
