Ming Mu Di Huang Wan Functional Groupings

• Primary Category: Tonify
• Subcategory: Tonify the Yin

Chai Hu

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Thorowax Root, Bupleurum

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

Mu Dan Pi

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Tree Peony Root Cortex

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 Zhu Yu

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Asiatic Cornelian Cherry Fruit

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.

Wu Wei Zi

Schisandra Fruit/Seed

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.

This formula has cautions, see details