bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage Soak dodder in wine, and use the remaining wine to cook Chinese yam paste into pills. For fistula disease, take with salt water; for red turbidity, take with rush stem decoction; for white turbidity, take with Poria decoction; for consumptive thirst, take with rice water.
bubble_chart Efficacy
Strengthen the spleen and secure the kidneys, astringe essence to stop seminal emission.
bubble_chart Indications
Seminal emission, enuresis, or clear and thin leukorrhea, or chronic diarrhea with undigested food in stool, accompanied by soreness and weakness in the lower back, pale tongue, white coating, and slow or weak pulse, caused by insecurity of kidney qi and spleen deficiency.
bubble_chart Formula Principles
In the formula, Dodder Seed, Lotus Seed, and the combination of Chinese Yam for tonifying the spleen to stop diarrhea; Chinese Yam for nourishing spleen yin; Poria for draining spleen turbidity; these two herbs together can restore the normal function of ascending lucidity and descending turbidity in the spleen and stomach, and the absorption of essential substances; Schisandra Fruit paired with Lotus Seed to restore coordination between the heart and kidney, calm the mind, enhance intelligence, and strengthen the effect of astringing essence to stop seminal emission. The combination of these five herbs, both tonifying and astringing, is particularly suitable for those with deficient healthy qi, hematospermia, and the dissipation of fluids.
bubble_chart Pattern Identification - Spleen and kidney deficiency.
- Seminal emission and enuresis.
- Thin and clear leukorrhea.
- Chronic diarrhea that does not stop.
- White tongue coating and slow pulse.
bubble_chart Formula Modification
- nocturnal emission spermatorrhea: add Fossil Bone, oyster shell, Cherokee Rose Fruit.
- yang deficiency: add Desertliving Cistanche, Morinda, Deer Horn.
- qi deficiency: add Ginseng, White Atractylodes Rhizome, Astragalus Root.
- insomnia: add Milkwort Root, Poria with Pine, Fossil Bone, oyster shell.
bubble_chart Modern Application
Diabetes, diabetes insipidus, prostatitis, chronic pancreatitis, enuresis, leucorrhea, seminal emission, chronic gastroenteritis, indigestion.