| Pin-yin: |
liu wei di huang wan |
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| English name: |
Six-Ingredient Pill with Rehmannia |
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| Component: |
Radix Rehmanniae Glutinosae Conquitae(shu di huang), Radix Paeoniae Lactiflorae(bai shao), Radix Dioscoreae Oppositae(shan yao), Rhizoma Alismatis Orientalis(ze xie), Cortex Moutan Radicis(mu dan pi), Sclerotium Poriae Cocos(fu ling) |
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| Pharmacological Effect: |
1) Prevents swellings and tumors, 2) improves immunity propensity, 3) protects liver and reduces blood lipid, 4) reduces glucose in the blood, 5) improves the absorption of calcium and phosphorus, 6) improves sexual ability, 7) alleviates ototoxic reaction, 8) prevents arrhythmia. |
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| Function: |
Nourishes the liver and kidneys. |
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| Clinic Usage: |
This formula treats kidney and liver yin deficiency. Symptoms include soreness and weakness in the lower back and knees, light-headedness, vertigo, tinnitus, diminished hearing, or children with an open anterior fontanel. The patient may also present heat symptoms caused by internally generated heat, such as hot palms and soles, wasting and thirsting disorder, night sweats, toothache for the uprising-heat, dry and sore throat, a red tongue with little coating, and a rapid, thin pulse. Modern practitioners often use this formula for treatment of 1) diabetes, 2) nephritis, 3) chronic prostatitis, menopause complications, 4) esophagus epitheliosis, 5) hypertension, tuberculosis, lupus erythematosus. |
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| Cautions: |
This formula is used by modern practitioners in treating biomedically-defined illnesses caused by kidney and liver yin deficiency such as chronic nephritis, hyperthyroidism, diabetes mellitus, and neurasthenia. |
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