RESTORE THE RIGHT
You Gui Wan
‘Eucommia and Rehmannia Formula’
Source: Collected Treatises of Zhang Jing-Yue (Jing Yue Quan Shu, 1624)
Keywords
weak sexual function, azoospermia, infertility, nephritis, renal failure, neurosis and diarrhoea
Ingredients
Rehmannia glutinosa (Shu Di, processed rehmannia)
Dioscorea opposita (Shan Yao, dioscorea)
Cornus
officinalis (Shan Zhu Yu, cornus)
Lycium chinensis (Gou Qi Zi, lycium fruit)
Cornu cervi deglutinate (Lu
Jiao Jiao, antler gelatine)
Cuscuta chinensis (Tu Si Zi, cuscuta)
Eucommia ulmoides (Du Zhong, eucommia bark)
Angelica sinensis (Dang Gui, Chinese angelica)
Cinnamomun cassia (Rou Gui, cinnamon bark)
Major therapeutic action
Warms and nourishes Kidney yang, supplements jing, nourishes Blood.
Hormone regulation.
Indications
* Kidney yang deficiency, weak Fire in the Gate of Life.
* With the appropriate key symptoms, this formula can be used to treat biomedical conditions such as weak
sexual nerves, azoospermia, infertility, chronic nephritis, chronic renal failure, neurosis and chronic diarrhoea, etc.
Key symptoms for use
* prolonged illness
* fatigue
* aversion to cold
* cold limbs
* weakness of the waist and knees
* impotence
* spermatorrhoea
* infertility
* loose stools, possible undigested food
* incontinence of urine
* oedema of the lower limbs
* With qi deficiency, add Panax ginseng (Ren Shen, ginseng).
* With loose stools or diarrhoea, add Si Shen Wan.
* With impotence, combine with Xian Ling Pi/Xian Mao.
The typical dose is three grams twice daily, before meals. In severe cases or the early stages of treatment (the first two weeks), a 50-100% increase in dose may be used, then reduced as the treatment takes effect.
Cautions and contraindications
None noted.
None noted.