Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan Eight Flavor Rehmannia Teapills - TCM Herbal Formula

Names Of Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan

Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan TCM Herbal Formula

English Name: Eight Flavor Rehmannia Teapills
Pinyin Name: Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan
Alternate Names: Anemarrhena, Phellodendron and Rehmannia Pills
Chinese Character: 知柏地黄丸

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How Is Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan Categorized?

Zhi Bai 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 31 Formulas In Our Tonify Category

How Is Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan Used Clinically?

Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan Usages and Indications

Steaming bone syndrome - dry and intensive persuasive sensation of heat possibly with flushing and tidal fever.
Dizziness, vertigo, tinnitis, anxiety and restlessness resulting from yin deficiency.
Dryness of the skin, mucus membranes, hard stools, dark or scanty urine.

Cautions and Contraindications

Use with caution with patients presenting with damp signs or spleen qi deficiency.

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Conditions and Patterns Potentially Related With Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan

Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan Related Conditions and Patterns

Hypertension (High Blood Pressure)Night Sweats (Sleep Hyperhidrosis)Steaming Bone Disorder Tinnitus

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Kidney Yin Deficiency Liver Yin Deficiency

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Notes From Our Clinicians For Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan

Staff Clinical Notes

While very similar in function to liu wei di huang wan, this formula has a stronger action to clear deficient fire and therefore is a better choice for steaming bone syndrome.

Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan Has 7Ingredients

Fu Ling

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.

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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.

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.

Zhi Mu

Anemarrhena Rhizome

Appears in the Herbs That Drain Fire category

Usages

Clears heat, drains fire - high fever, irritability, thirst, and a rapid flooding pulse in patterns of excessive heat in the lungs and/or stomach; cough due to lung heat with thick yellow sputum.
Nourishes yin, moistens dryness - deficiency of lung and kidney yin, night sweats, steaming bone disorder, irritability, afternoon or low-grade fevers, bleeding gums, five-center heat; also for kidney heat signs - spermatorrhea, nocturnal emission, high sexual desire.
Generates fluids and clears heat - oral ulcers and inflammation due to yin deficiency, wasting and thirsting disorder.

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