Ren Shen Shou Wu Wan Functional Groupings

• Primary Category: Tonify
• Subcategory: Tonify the Qi and Blood

Bu Gu Zhi

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Psoralea Fruit

Usages

• Tonify Kidney, strengthen yang - impotence, premature ejaculation, cold and painful lower back.
• Stabilizes jing and reserves urine - enuresis, incontinence of urine, frequent urination, spermatorrhea.
• Tonify and strengthen spleen yang - cold deficient spleen diarrhea, borborygmus, abdominal pain.
• Aids kidneys to grasp lung qi - wheezing, asthma.
• Apply topically for alopecia, psoriasis, vitiligo.

Dang Shen

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Codonopsis Root

Usages

• Tonifies the middle warmer, augments the qi - lack of appetite, fatigue, diarrhea, vomiting, any spleen qi deficiency issues, prolapse of uterus, stomach, rectum.
• Tonifies the lungs - lung deficiency w/chronic cough, shortness of breath, copious sputum due to spleen qi deficiency.
• Nourishes fluids - xiao ke, thirst due to injury to fluids.
• Often used with herbs that release the exterior when patient has significant qi deficiency.

He Shou Wu

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Polygonum, Fleeceflower Root

Usages

• Tonifies liver and kidney, nourishes blood, augments essence - yin and/or blood deficiency w/dizziness, blurred vision, prematurely grey hair, weakness in the lower back and knees, sore limbs, insomnia, nocturnal emission, spermatorrhea, vaginal discharge; neither cold, drying, nor too cloying.
• Relieves toxic fire - carbuncles, sores, scrofula, neck lumps.
• Moistens intestines - constipation associated with blood deficiency.
• Expels wind from skin by nourishing the blood.
• Chronic malaria w/qi and blood deficiency.