Major Yin-Supplementing Pill

Major Yin-Supplementing Pill

Rehmanniae Radix Praeparata (steamed with wine) (Shu Di Huang jiu chao) 6 liang (180g), Testudinis Plastrum (Gui Ban zhi prepared) 6 liang (180g), Phellodendri Chinensis Cortex(Huang Bai chao; fried) 4 liang (120g), Anemarrhenae Rhizoma (Zhi Mu jiu jin chao; soaked in wine fried) 4 liang (120g)

Grind the medicinals and combine them with steamed pig spinal marrow. Shape the mixture into pills using honey. Take seventy pills (6-9g) with salt water before meals. The current preparation method is to grind the four medicinals mentioned above into fine powder and add it to a certain amount of steamed pig spinal marrow. Then form the mixture into paste and add honey to form pills that weigh fifteen grams. One pill is orally administered in the morning and one in the evening with slightly salt water. It can also be prepared as a decoction by adjusting the medicinal quantities based on the original ratios.

Enriches yin and subdues fire.

Da Bu Yin Wan is used to treat patterns of yin deficiency with deficiency fire marked by steaming bone fever, night sweat, seminal emission, cough, hemoptysis, vexation, irascibility, pain and redness of the feet and knees, a red tongue with scanty coating, and a rapid, powerful pulse at the chi position.

This pattern is caused by liver-kidney deficiency, true yin deficiency, and exuberance of ministerial fire. The kidney is the viscus of water and fire. When the true yin is deficient, the ministerial fire is excessive and generates deficiency-fire. The symptoms include steaming bone fever, night sweat, seminal emission, pain and redness of feet and knees. Deficiency-fire even scorches the lung in this pattern causing cough and hemoptysis. Deficiency-fire harasses the heart spirit and causes vexation and irascibility. The therapeutic method is to powerfully supplement true yin and help subdue fire.

1. Essential pattern differentiation Da Bu Yin Wan is the most common formula used to enrich yin and subdue fire. This formula should not be used in cases of spleen-stomach weakness, poor appetite, loose stool, and excessive fire and heat patterns. This clinical pattern is marked by steaming bone fever, red tongue with scanty coating, and a rapid, powerful pulse at the chi position. 2. Modern applications This formula may be used in the following biomedically defined disorders when the patient shows signs of yin deficiency with deficiency-fire flaming up: hyperthyroidism, nephrotuberculosis, osseous tuberculosis, and diabetes.

Hu Qian Wan (Hidden Tiger Pill 虎潛丸)

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