He Che Di Huang Pills，From *Shou Shi Bao Yuan*, Volume 4.，Those with a deficient middle jiao, a weak constitution, and a lack of self-restraint who engage in excessive sexual activity may cause the kidney water to dry up, leading to the uncontrolled movement of the ministerial fire and resulting in a syndrome of yin deficiency with excessive fire.Symptoms include fever throughout the body, coughing with phlegm, shortness of breath and chest congestion, frequent night sweats, heat in the palms and soles (wuxin fanre)—worsening at night and improving during the day—hemoptysis, epistaxis, hematuria, hematochezia, coughing up blood, spitting blood, lung abscess, pulmonary atrophy, sore throat with hoarseness, dry mouth and thirst, tinnitus and darkened vision, dizziness and drowsiness, abdominal distension and swelling, dribbling urination,nocturnal emissions, weakness and soreness in the feet and knees, wasting of muscles, fatigue in the limbs, loss of appetite, and fever due to blood deficiency.
He Che Di Huang Pills
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Formulas Name : He Che Di Huang Pills
Chinese Name : 河车地黄丸
Drug Formulation
Huai Shengdi (first wash thoroughly with wine, then mix evenly with wine; place in a coarse bowl, set the bowl inside a sandpot, and steam in a double boiler for half a day; remove, add wine, and steam again until extremely black; then mix with ginger juice and bake dry over low heat) 8 liang,Cornus officinalis (steamed with wine, pitted, and pulp retained) 4 liang, Huai yam 4 liang, Poria cocos (peeled, with fibrous membranes removed, soaked in milk and sun-dried three times) 3 liang, Moutan bark (deboned) 3 liang, Alisma 3 liang.
Source
From *Shou Shi Bao Yuan*, Volume 4.
Processing
Grind the above ingredients into an extremely fine powder. Take one set of first-birth placenta (use a male placenta for a male patient, a female placenta for a female patient), wash it thoroughly under running water, place it in a porcelain bowl inside a clay pot, and steam over alternating low and high heat for one day until completely soft. Transfer to a mortar and pound into a paste. Add the medicinal powder and pound over a thousand times to form pills the size of a Paulownia seed.
Benefits
Those with a deficient middle jiao, a weak constitution, and a lack of self-restraint who engage in excessive sexual activity may cause the kidney water to dry up, leading to the uncontrolled movement of the ministerial fire and resulting in a syndrome of yin deficiency with excessive fire.Symptoms include fever throughout the body, coughing with phlegm, shortness of breath and chest congestion, frequent night sweats, heat in the palms and soles (wuxin fanre)—worsening at night and improving during the day—hemoptysis, epistaxis, hematuria, hematochezia, coughing up blood, spitting blood, lung abscess, pulmonary atrophy, sore throat with hoarseness, dry mouth and thirst, tinnitus and darkened vision, dizziness and drowsiness, abdominal distension and swelling, dribbling urination,nocturnal emissions, weakness and soreness in the feet and knees, wasting of muscles, fatigue in the limbs, loss of appetite, and fever due to blood deficiency.
Instructions for Use
Take 100 pills per dose, washed down with plain hot water on an empty stomach; if kidney yin fails to nourish spleen earth, resulting in excessive phlegm and spittle, take with ginger tea. Alternatively, dissolving the formula in wine mixed with dragon’s blood gelatin to form pills is particularly effective.
Note
Avoid contact with iron utensils.
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He Che Di Huang Pills,Those with a deficient middle jiao, a weak constitution, and a lack of self-restraint who engage in excessive sexual activity may cause the kidney water to dry up, leading to the uncontrolled movement of the ministerial fire and resulting in a syndrome of yin deficiency with excessive fire.Symptoms include fever throughout the body, coughing with phlegm, shortness of breath and chest congestion, frequent night sweats, heat in the palms and soles (wuxin fanre)—worsening at night and improving during the day—hemoptysis, epistaxis, hematuria, hematochezia, coughing up blood, spitting blood, lung abscess, pulmonary atrophy, sore throat with hoarseness, dry mouth and thirst, tinnitus and darkened vision, dizziness and drowsiness, abdominal distension and swelling, dribbling urination,nocturnal emissions, weakness and soreness in the feet and knees, wasting of muscles, fatigue in the limbs, loss of appetite, and fever due to blood deficiency.