[Efficacy]

Tonify kidney and yang, disinhibiting water and dispersing edema.

[Indications]

Edema caused by insufficient kidney yang, heavy waist and swollen feet, difficulty in urination, fear of cold, cold limbs, soreness and weakness of waist and knees, pale tongue with white coating, and heavy pulse. It also treats consumptive thirst and fluid retention.

This prescription is suitable for patients with weak kidney yang deficiency, abnormal qi transformation, inability to dredge and regulate water passage. This recipe is made from Cassia Bark, Aconite and Rehmannia Pill, joined by Achyranthes Root and Plantain Seed. Cassia Bark, Aconite and Rehmannia Pill Also known as Golden Chamber Kidney Qi Pill, it is mainly used to treat soreness and weakness of waist and knees, seminal emission, impotence and frequent nocturia caused by kidney yang deficiency. etc., has the effect of warming and tonifying kidney yang, and this recipe adds Plantain Seed to diuretic and relieve stranguria, so that water evil can come out from the urine; Achyranthes Root tonify the liver and kidney, strengthen the Muscles and bones, promoting diuresis and treating stranguria. The combination of various medicines can not only nourish the kidneys and yang, restore the qi transformation function to normal, but also diuretic and relieve stranguria, so that the water and dampness can be removed from the urine, and all diseases will heal themselves.

1. Edema caused by insufficient kidney yang.
2. My waist and feet are swollen and weak.
3. Having trouble urinating.
4. Light tongue with white coating.
5. Pulse sinks.

[Addition and subtraction]

1. edema is worse: add Polyporus, Alisma.
2. dribbling urination: Add Akebia Stem, Grass of Common KnotGrass.
3. lumbago even: add Eucommia Bark.
4. qi deficiency and physical fatigue: add Ginseng and Astragalus Root.

[Attention to taboos]

Use with caution in those with yin deficiency with effulgent fire or excessive heat damage to fluid.

[Modern application]

This recipe enhances endocrine function, improves immunity, promotes water metabolism, and adjusts water metabolism. Used for chronic nephritis, prostatitis, chronic urethritis, edema, diabetes, neurasthenia, urinary retention, chronic bronchitis, hypertension, hypotension, athlete's foot, amnesia, and sciatica.