250 gm of Prepared Rehmannia Root, 120 gm of Chinese Yam (stir-fried), 120 gm of Chinese Wolfberry, 120 gm of Cornus Fruit, 90 gm of Cyathula Root (washed with wine, steamed, not used if slippery), 120 gm of Prepared Dodder Seed, 120 gm of Deer Antler Glue (crushed, stir-fried into beads), 120 gm of Tortoise Shell Glue (cut, crushed, stir-fried into beads).

bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage

First, steam the cooked rehmannia until soft and mash it into a paste, then make it into pills with refined honey, as big as a phoenix tree seed. Take with hot water or light salt water before meals.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Tonifying the kidneys, nourishing essence and blood.

bubble_chart Indications

Insufficient true yin kidney water fails to nourish nutrient-defense, gradually leading to weakness, or alternating deficiency heat, spontaneous sweating and night sweats, or uncontrolled enuresis, or blurred vision and deafness, or dry mouth and tongue, or sore waist and weak legs.

bubble_chart Formula Modification

If true yin is lost and deficient fire flares upward, a pure yin and extremely calming formula should be used. Remove Barbary Wolfberry Fruit and Cervi Deer-Horn Glue from the original prescription, and add 90 grams of glossy privet fruit and 90 grams of Ophiopogon Tuber. If fire scorches lung metal, causing dryness and frequent coughing, add 90 grams of Lily Bulb. If there is steaming bone fever at night, add 90 grams of Chinese Wolfberry Root-bark. If there is difficulty or turbidity in urination, add 90 grams of Poria. If there is dryness and accumulation in the stool, remove Dodder Seed and add 90 grams of Desertliving Cistanche. If there is qi deficiency, add 90 to 120 grams of Ginseng. If there is slight stagnation due to blood deficiency, add 120 grams of Chinese Angelica. If there is soreness and pain in the waist and knees, add 90 grams of Eucommia Bark, stir-fried with saltwater. If the organs are balanced without fire but kidney qi is insufficient, add 90 grams of malaytea scurfpea fruit, 120 grams of lotus seed, and 120 grams of walnut kernel. Tortoise-plastron glue is not necessary.