Ming Mu Di Huang Wan Rehmannia Pills to Brighten the Eyes - TCM Herbal Formula

Names Of Ming Mu Di Huang Wan

Ming Mu Di Huang Wan TCM Herbal Formula

English Name: Rehmannia Pills to Brighten the Eyes
Pinyin Name: Ming Mu Di Huang Wan
Alternate Names: Improve Vision Pill with Rehmannia
Chinese Character: 明目地黄丸

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How Is Ming Mu Di Huang Wan Categorized?

Ming Mu Di Huang Wan Functional Groupings

Primary Category: Tonify
Subcategory: Tonify the Yin

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Sub Categories Within The Tonify Category

Tonify the Blood Tonify the Qi Tonify the Qi and Blood Tonify the Yin Warm and Tonify the Yang

There Are 36 Formulas In Our Tonify Category

How Is Ming Mu Di Huang Wan Used Clinically?

Ming Mu Di Huang Wan Usages and Indications

Blurry vision, floaters, possibly with dryness of the eyes as a result of the liver yin failing to nourish the eyes and kidney yin failing to brighten the vision.

Conditions and Patterns Potentially Related With Ming Mu Di Huang Wan

Ming Mu Di Huang Wan Related Conditions and Patterns

Eye Problems

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Kidney Yin Deficiency Liver Blood Deficiency Liver Yin Deficiency

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What Are Some Common Combinations For Ming Mu Di Huang Wan?

Clinical Formula Combinations and Modifications

Tian Ma Gou Teng Wan - Severe Dizziness, Vertigo, and Headaches
Pearl Powder - Cataracts

Notes From Our Clinicians For Ming Mu Di Huang Wan

Staff Clinical Notes

This formula uses liu wei di huang wan as a base and adds chai hu and dang gui to help direct the formula to the eyes and nourish liver blood to support the vision.

Ming Mu Di Huang Wan Has 8Ingredients

Chai Hu

Thorowax Root, Bupleurum

Appears in the Herbs That Release The Exterior Wind Heat category

Usages

Clears shao yang disorders and reduces fever - alternating chills and fever, bitter taste in the mouth, irritability, vomiting, stifling sensation in the chest.
Relieves liver qi stagnation (often used with Bai Shao) - vertigo, menstrual disorders, chest and flank pain, the most common herb to treat stress, irritability, depression, etc.; also for liver and spleen disharmony - bloating, nausea, indigestion, flank pain.
Raises yang qi in spleen and stomach deficiency patterns (often used with Sheng Ma) - prolapsed organ, diarrhea, hemorrhoids.

This formula has cautions, see details

Dang Gui

Chinese Angelica Root

Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Blood category

Usages

Tonifies the blood, regulates menses - pallid, ashen complexion, tinnitus, blurred vision, palpitations, irregular menses, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea.
Invigorates/harmonizes the blood, disperses cold - important herb to stop pain due to blood stasis - abdominal pain, trauma, carbuncles due to blood stasis, chronic bi.
Moistens dry intestines due to blood deficiency.
Reduces swellings, expels pus, generates flesh - sores.

Mu Dan Pi

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.

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Shan Yao

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

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.

Shu Di Huang

Rehmannia, Chinese Foxglove Root

Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Blood category

Usages

This is the root of Sheng Di Huang (steamed and dried, or soaked in red wine and dried).
Tonify blood for blood deficiency with dizziness, pallid complexion, palpitations, insomnia, irregular menses, uterine bleeding, post partum bleeding.
Nourish yin - kidney yin deficiency with nightsweats, xiao ke, steaming bone disorder, nocturnal emissions.

Wu Wei Zi

Schisandra Fruit/Seed

Appears in the Herbs That Stabilize and Bind category

Usages

Constrain leakage of lung qi, enriches kidney yin - chronic cough and wheezing due to kidney and lung deficiency.
Tonify the kidneys, bind the essence, stop diarrhea - nocturnal emission, spermatorrhea, leukorrhea, frequent urination, daybreak diarrhea.
Inhibits sweating, generates fluids - thirst with excess sweat, spontaneous sweating, nightsweats, xiao ke.
Quiet the spirit, calm the heart - irritability, palpitations, insomnia due to blood deficiency or kidney and heart yin injury.

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Ze Xie

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.