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  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">lu jiao</name>
    <name type="chinese">鹿角</name>
    <name type="latin">Cornu Cervi</name>
    <name type="english">Deer Antler</name>
  </names>
  <category>Tonify Yang</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Kidney</channel>
    <channel>Liver</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Tonifies Kidney Yang</summary>
      <indication>Mild Kidney Yang deficiency with a cold, weak lower back and knees</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Augments Jing and Blood</summary>
      <indication>Depleted Jing and Blood with tiredness and a weak lower back</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Invigorates Blood and dispels stasis</summary>
      <indication>Pain from Blood stasis</indication>
      <indication>Deep, long-standing lower back pain</indication>
      <indication>Swelling after traumatic injury</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Reduces swelling and disperses Cold toxin</summary>
      <indication>Yin-type sores and carbuncles</indication>
      <indication>Early-stage or Cold-type breast abscess (mastitis with no Heat signs)</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
