[Foreign Language]: Bushen Yiqi Pill

A Chinese medicinal pill for treating deficiency of kidney-yang, lumbago, soft feet, cold sensation in the lower body, paunch, urgency, dysuria or polyuria, beriberi, phlegm retention, thirst quenching, and metaplasia. The prescription comes from synopsis of golden chamber. Because the prescription originated from synopsis of golden chamber, it takes tonifying kidney and benefiting qi as its work, so it is named.

drug ingredient

240 grams of Radix Rehmanniae, 0/20 grams of Rhizoma Dioscoreae and Fructus Corni, 90 grams of Rhizoma Alismatis, 90 grams of Poria, 90 grams of Cortex Moutan, and 30 grams of Ramulus Cinnamomi and Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata.

functional analysis

In the prescription, the raw land nourishes kidney yin, dogwood and yam nourishes liver and spleen, supplemented with kidney yin and warming kidney yang, and supplemented with a small amount of cassia twig and aconite root, aiming at slightly generating less fire and generating kidney qi. "Jin Jian of Medical Zong" records that "this Shenqi pill nourishes yin with one tenth of the amount, which does not mean to replenish fire, but a slight fire will produce kidney qi." The purpose is to "benefit fire and eliminate yin". In the prescription, Alisma orientalis purges kidney turbidity, Poria permeates spleen dampness, Peony bark clears liver and purges fire, and drugs for warming and tonifying kidney yang are added to replenish middle energizer and contain diarrhea, so that it is not depressed. The compatibility method of this prescription belongs to the combination of yin and yang, warming kidney, supporting yang and tonifying kidney qi.