Names Of Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan

Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan TCM Herbal Formula
- English Name: Kidney Qi Pill from the Golden Cabinet
- Pinyin Name: Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan
- Alternate Names: Ba Wei Di Huang Wan, Jin Kui Shen Qi Wan, Shen Qi Wan, Rehmannia Eight Formula, Kidney Qi Pills
- Chinese Character: 金匮肾气丸
How Is Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan Categorized?
Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan Functional Groupings
- Primary Category: Tonify
- Subcategory: Warm and Tonify the Yang
Sub Categories Within The Tonify Category
Tonify the BloodTonify the QiTonify the Qi and BloodTonify the YinWarm and Tonify the Yang
There Are 37 Formulas In Our Tonify Category
How Is Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan Used Clinically?
Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan Usages and Indications
- Lethargy, low libedo, frequent urination with possible incontinence resulting from kidney yang deficiency.
- Sensation of cold, especially in the lower half.
Cautions and Contraindications
- Avoid during pregnancy.
- Avoid during a cold or flu, use nothing, or yin qiao / gan mao ling instead.
- Avoid with patients that present with yin deficiency.
Conditions and Patterns Potentially Related With Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan

Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan Related Conditions and Patterns
Back PainDiabetes Type IIErectile Dysfunction (ED)FatigueHypothyroidism
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Kidney Yang Deficiency
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Fu Ling
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Poria, China Root
Appears in the Herbs That Drain Dampness category
Usages
- Promotes urination, drains dampness, transforms phlegm - urinary difficulty, diarrhea, edema, headache, dizziness, greasy tongue coat.
- Strengthens the spleen, harmonizes the middle jiao - diarrhea, loss of appetite.
- Quiets the heart and calms the spirit - palpitations, insomnia, forgetfulness.
This formula has cautions, see details
Fu Zi
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Prepared Aconite Root
Appears in the Herbs That Warm the Interior and Expel Cold category
Usages
- Restores devastated yang - extreme cold limbs with abundant cold symptoms.
- Assists heart yang to unblock vessels and improve circulation, tonifies kidney yang to augment fire and avoid loss of the basal yang.
- Warms fire and assists yang - any problem associated with weak heart, spleen, and/or kidneys.
- Disperses cold, warms the channels, alleviates pain - wind-damp-cold bi, cold blocking organs, channels, sinews, bones or blood vessels.
This formula has cautions, see details
Gui Zhi
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Cinnamon Twig
Appears in the Herbs That Release The Exterior Wind Cold category
Usages
- Releases muscle layer and adjusts ying and wei qi levels
- Useful in wind-cold-damp bi syndromes to warm channels and disperse cold
- Resolves blood stagnation particularly from cold - dysmenorrhea
- Unblocks yang qi in the chest - shortness of breath, chest pain, palpitations
- Resolve edema and accumulation of cold phlegm
This formula has cautions, see details
Mu Dan Pi
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Tree Peony Root Cortex
Appears in the Herbs That Cool The Blood category
Usages
- Clears Heat (excess and deficient), Cools Blood. Nose bleed, bloody sputum or vomit, subcutaneous bleeding, frequent and profuse menses due to heat in the Blood.
- Clear Deficient Fire. Yin deficiency patterns such as steaming bone disorder after a warm-febrile disease particularly those without sweating.
- Clears Liver Blood Stasis. Amenorrhea, abdominal masses, bruises.
- Clears Rising Liver Fire. Headache, eye pain, flank pain, flushing, dysmenorrhea.
- Drains Pus, Reduces Swelling. Used topically for non-draining sores. Used internally for intestinal abscess.
This formula has cautions, see details
Shan Yao
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Chinese Yam
Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Qi category
Usages
- Tonify the spleen and stomach qi - diarrhea, fatigue, spontaneous sweating, lack of appetite.
- Tonify the lung qi and yin - chronic cough/wheezing.
- Strengthen the kidney yin and yang - not hot nor cold, benefits both yin and yang, xiao ke, also binds the jing - spermatorrhea, vaginal discharge, frequent urination.
Shan Zhu Yu
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Asiatic Cornelian Cherry Fruit
Appears in the Herbs That Stabilize and Bind category
Usages
- Stabilize the kidneys, retain the essence - leaking of fluids due to weak essence, excessive urination, incontinence, spermatorrhea, excessive sweating, for devastated yang and collapsed qi, as in shock.
- Tonify the liver and kidney - lightheadedness, dizziness, impotence, sore back and knees, tonifies the jing and assists the yang.
- Stabilize menses - excessive uterine bleeding, prolonged menses, weak effect.
Sheng Di Huang
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Rehmannia
Appears in the Herbs That Cool The Blood category
Usages
- Clears Heat, Cools Blood. High fever, thirst, scarlet tongue, hemorrhage due to heat in the Blood.
- Nourishes Yin, Generates Fluids. Yin Deficiency with heat signs with injury to body fluids. Dry mouth, low-grade fever, constipation, throat pain from yin deficiency.
- Cools Ascending Heart Fire (HT, LV). Mouth and tongue sores, irritability, insomnia, malar flush.
- Wasting thirst disorder.
This formula has cautions, see details
Ze Xie
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Water Plantain Root
Appears in the Herbs That Drain Dampness category
Usages
- Promotes urination, drains damp-heat in the lower burner - urinary difficulty, edema, diarrhea.
- Drains deficient kidney fire - heat signs, dizziness, tinnitus.
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