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Anchors Liver Yang and calms the Spirit

Restless Heart and Spirit with palpitations, anxiety, insomnia, fright and tremor, where Yin is deficient below and Yang floats upward Liver Fire from Kidney Yin deficiency that unsettles the Spirit Liver Yang rising, with headache, dizziness and vertigo, and sore red eyes Seizures, and convulsions in children brought on by fright or shock

Benefits Yin, nourishes the Kidneys and Liver, and sharpens hearing and vision

Liver and Kidney Yin deficiency with poor hearing or deafness, tinnitus, or blurred and failing eyesight

Helps the Kidneys grasp Qi

Chronic wheezing and breathlessness from Kidneys failing to grasp Qi