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
How Is Ming Mu Di Huang Wan Categorized?
Ming Mu Di Huang Wan Functional Groupings
- Primary Category: Tonify
- Subcategory: Tonify the Yin
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 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
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Kidney Yin DeficiencyLiver Blood DeficiencyLiver Yin Deficiency
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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.
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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