SEVEN PRECIOUS HERBS FOR GREY HAIR PILL
Qi Bao Mei Ran Dan

 

 ‘Seven Precious Herbs for Grey Hair Pill’
Source: Analytic Collection of Medical Formulas (Yi Fang Ji Jie, 1682)

Keywords
weakness, grey hair, premature ejaculation, spermatorrhoea, infertility and chronic haemorhage

Ingredients
|Polygonum multiflorum (He Shou Wu, fleece-flower root)
Poria cocos (bai Fu Ling, hoelen)
Achyranthes bidentata (Huai Niu Xi, achyranthes)
Angelica sinensis (Dang Gui, Chinese angelica)
Lycium chinensis (Gou Qi Zi, lycium fruit)
|Cuscuta chinensis (Tu Si Zi, cuscuta)
Psoralea corylifolia (Bu Gu Zhi, psoralea)

Major therapeutic action
Supplements Kidney water, invigorates Liver Blood.

Biomedical action
Invigorating.

Indications
*  Liver and Kidney deficiency.
*  With the appropriate key symptoms, this formula can be used to treat biomedical conditions such as weakness after prolonged illness or in senile people, early grey hair, premature ejaculation, spermatorrhoea, infertility and chronic haemorrhage, etc.

Key symptoms for use
*  early grey hair
*  unstable teeth
*  nocturnal emission
*  weakness of the waist and knees

Cautions and contraindications
None noted.
None noted.
Dosage
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.