Five Seeds Kidney-Nourishing and Vitality-Restoring Pills，*Supplement to the Omissions of the Inner Canon*, Volume 4，Deficiency of kidney essence, leading to seminal emission.
Five Seeds Kidney-Nourishing and Vitality-Restoring Pills
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Formulas Name : Five Seeds Kidney-Nourishing and Vitality-Restoring Pills
Chinese Name : 五子益肾补元丸
Drug Formulation
Raw Rehmannia 8 liang (preferably with a reddish-purple interior when split open; wash thoroughly with wine, slice with a bamboo knife, mix evenly with 1 zhong of young man’s breast milk and 1 zhong of ash-free wine, soak for one day, then lightly stir-fry in an earthenware pot without stopping; when half-dry, remove and sun-dry during the day and oven-dry at night),White Poria 4 liang (firm and white; Yunnan variety is best; remove the skin; grind into a fine powder with Rehmannia; wrap in silk; place inside glutinous rice and steam until cooked; this preparation guides the Rehmannia into the Huangting Palace for use), Cornus officinalis (red and lustrous is best; wash, remove the pits, and use the flesh) 5 liang,Alisma (preferably free of wormholes and white in color; remove the fibrous roots) 3 liang (grind into a fine powder with Cornus officinalis, wrap in silk, and steam once atop glutinous rice; prepared in this manner, it guides Cornus officinalis into the Dan Tian, preventing Alisma from having a diuretic effect), Dried Chinese yam (from Huaiqing) 5 liang,Peony Bark (thick, robust slices, free from dryness or rot) 4 liang (wash in warm water; while still damp, mix with the ground Chinese yam powder, wrap in silk,Steam once in a clay pot over clear broth until cooked, then sun-dry and grind into a powder; this directs the Chinese yam to the pericardium to generate essence and blood), Cypress Seed Kernels 3 liang (lightly roasted, ground separately), Rubus Fruit (washed with water) 2 liang (roasted), Paper Mulberry Seed 3 liang (rinsed clean, roasted), Goji Berries (those from Ganzhou are best; remove stems and calyxes, and grind into a fine powder) 4 liang,4 liang of dodder seeds (rinsed clean; simmer in a decoction with 2 qian of rock salt until tender; pound into a paste, then stir-fry until dry).
Source
*Supplement to the Omissions of the Inner Canon*, Volume 4
Processing
Grind each of the above ingredients into a fine powder. Take 20 liang of genuine beeswax honey and refine it until nearly ready. Sort and clean floating wheat, then take 4 liang of its flour and 4 liang of Euryale seed powder. Add 3 zhan of breast milk from a young, healthy woman and 2 zhong of water, then mix thoroughly. Refine the honey mixture until thoroughly cooked, combine it with the powders, and pound into pills in a stone mortar until they are the size of a Paulownia seed. Dry them in the sun.
Benefits
Deficiency of kidney essence, leading to seminal emission.
Instructions for Use
Take 100 pills daily on an empty stomach with lightly salted water; immediately follow with 1–2 air-dried sweet chestnuts, or about 10–15 boiled lotus seeds, or boiled longan, to help direct the medicine’s efficacy to the lower jiao.
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Five Seeds Kidney-Nourishing and Vitality-Restoring Pills,Deficiency of kidney essence, leading to seminal emission.