Chinese Herbal Formulas That Nourish and Tonify Yin

Da Bu Yin Wan

Great Tonify the Yin Pill

Main Actions for Da Bu Yin Wan

The indications of this TCM herbal formula are to nourish yin and cause fire to descend. This chinese medicine formula is best suited for conditions of upward rising of fire due to liver and kidney deficiency. The internally generated heat from yin deficiency leads to a tidal fever (yin ascending) and tidal fever.

Indications and Symptoms for Da Bu Yin Wan

steaming bone disorder, afternoon tidal fever, night sweats, spontaneous emissions, irritability, heat seanstion in the knees, pain in the knees and legs, weakness in the legs and knees

Tongue – red, little or no coat

Pulse – rapid, forceful

Medicinal Ingredients of Da Bu Yin Wan

Shu Di Huang (Rehmanniae Glutinosae Conquitae, Rehmannia) - 180g.

-tonifying kidney and liver yin

Su Jiu Gui Ban (Deep Fried Plastrum Testudinis, Fresh Water Turtle Shell) - 180g.

-nourish yin, brings down floating yang Qi

Chao Huang Bai (Dry Fried Cortex Phellodendri, Amur Cork-tree Bark, Phellodendron - 120g.

-relieves kidney fire

Jiu Chao Zhi Mu (Wine Fried Rhizoma Anemarrhenae Asphodeloidis, Anemarrhena Rhizome) - 120g.

-clears heat, nourish lungs, generates yin fluids

Preparation Instructions of Da Bu Yin Wan

This natural herbal formula was traditionally prepared by grinding all the herbal ingredients into a fine powder and cooked with pigs vertebrae marrow and formed into pills with honey. Today the normal dosage is 6-9 grams taken twice a day with salted water.

Additional Points on Da Bu Yin Wan

This herbal formula is best used when the yin is deficient and the yang Qi is over abundant, if the yin is nourished the yang Qi will be constrained and the fire therefore controlled.

Da By Yin Wan has a stronger effect of nourishing yin fluids and eliminating deficient fire than Liu Wei Di Huang Wan (Six Ingredient Pill with Rehmannia).

When the appropriate conditions are present this alternative medicine formula is able to treat such diseases as tuberculosis of the lungs, kidneys or bones, bronchiectasis, diabetes mellitus, hyperthyroid conditions and neurasthenia.