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Nourishes Yin and anchors Yang

Yin deficiency with fever, night sweats, steaming bones or consumption Yang floating upward for want of Yin, with tidal fever, heat in the five centres, dizziness and irritability Internal stirring of Liver Wind, with tremor, when depleted Yin cannot hold it

Clears deficiency Heat and vents Heat from the Yin level

Deep, low-grade fever in the afternoon or night from long-standing Yin depletion Heat lingering at the Yin level late in a febrile disease: fever that eases by morning and comes back at night without sweating

Invigorates Blood, promotes menstruation, softens hardness and dissipates nodules

Accumulations in the chest and flanks with pain and absent periods Heavy periods from Heat in the Blood Malarial disorders with palpable masses, including an enlarged spleen after chronic intermittent fevers Palpable abdominal masses and glandular swellings Amenorrhea from long-standing Blood stasis

Anchors heavily, descends, and unblocks the Blood vessels

Disorders in children from internal clumping