Shi Junzi and Rehmannia Pill，*Compendium of Medical Essentials*, Volume 9.，For kidney wasting disease, bone wasting disease, brain wasting disease, and spinal wasting disease—characterized by fever in the brain, emaciation, cold hands and feet, intermittent chills and fever, loose stools with abdominal pain, tooth sores, skin sores, and a gaunt, dark complexion.
Shi Junzi and Rehmannia Pill
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Formulas Name : Shi Junzi and Rehmannia Pill
Chinese Name : 使君子地黄丸
Drug Formulation
8 qian of prepared Rehmannia root, 3 qian of red Poria (use the red variety to dispel pathogenic heat from the epigastrium), 3 qian of Chinese yam, 3 qian of peony bark, 3 qian of Chinese cornelian cherry (pitted), 3 qian of Alisma, 3 qian of Chinese angelica root, 3 qian of Sichuan melia fruit (pitted, use the flesh), and 3 qian of Schisandra fruit (shelled, use the flesh).
Source
*Compendium of Medical Essentials*, Volume 9.
Processing
Grind the ingredients into a fine powder and mix with honey to form pills the size of a Paulownia seed.
Benefits
For kidney wasting disease, bone wasting disease, brain wasting disease, and spinal wasting disease—characterized by fever in the brain, emaciation, cold hands and feet, intermittent chills and fever, loose stools with abdominal pain, tooth sores, skin sores, and a gaunt, dark complexion.
Instructions for Use
Take 3–5 pills per dose, washed down with warm water.
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Shi Junzi and Rehmannia Pill,For kidney wasting disease, bone wasting disease, brain wasting disease, and spinal wasting disease—characterized by fever in the brain, emaciation, cold hands and feet, intermittent chills and fever, loose stools with abdominal pain, tooth sores, skin sores, and a gaunt, dark complexion.