Bai Wei Di Huang Wan (Hachimi-jio-gan)

To warm the Kidney yang and activate vital energy, nourish deficiency of yin and produce yang*.

English Name: Rehmannia Eight Formula
Chinese Name: Ba Wei Di Huang Wan jin gui shen qi
Unit Size: Box of 42 sachets (14 day supply)
Potency: 5:1
Properties: This formula warms the yang and activates vital energy, nourishes deficiency of yin and produces yang, so that kidney yang is strengthened, activity of vital energy is restored.
Actions: Shu di huang is the chief herb, which can nourish yin and tonify the kidneys. Shan zhu yu and shan yao (the deputy herbs) tonify the liver and spleen and benefit the vital energy. They can also assist the kidney yang together with acrid, hot fu zi and rou gui. The chief and assistant herbs together have the effect of tonifying the kidneys and benefiting the essence as well as nourishing the kidneys and warming yang. This is the method of saving yang from yin. Zexie and fu ling have the effect of eliminating the dampness evil. Mu dan pi clears away ministerfs fire. They have the effect of tonifying the body, although evil is eliminated, and the greasy nature of yin-nourishing herbs is avoided. All these herbs coordinated together are warm but not dry; nourishing but not greasy. They can warm the yang and activate vital energy, nourish deficiency of yin and produce yang, so that kidney yang is strengthened, activity of vital energy is restored, and all syndromes are recovered.
Pattern: Kidney yang deficiency
Chinese Symptomology: Fatigue;Cold hands and feet;Oliguria;Strong Thirst;Lower extremity pain;Numbness;Presbyopia due to aging;Pruritis;Difficulity urinating;Edema

Ingredients

Ingredients (daily amount of raw herb) The daily dose of 7.5g (3 unit packets) contains 4.40g of Eight-Ingredient Formula with Rehmannia extract powder: Rehmannia Root (Shu di huang) 5.0g Cornus Fruit (Shan zhu yu) 3.0g Dioscorea Rhizome (Shan yao) 3.0g Alisma Rhizome (Ze xie) 3.0g Moutan Bark (Mu dan pi) 3.0g Cinnamon Bark (Gui pi) 1.0g Hoelen (Fu ling) 3.0g Processed Lateral Root of Aconite (Fu zi) 1.0g