You Gui Wan (Restore the Right [Kidney] Pill)

Restore the Right Kidney Pill

Jing Yue Quan Shu, 1624

• Fu Zi, Rou Gui, Lu Jiao Jiao (warm yang)
• Shu Di, Shan Zhu Yu, Shan Yao, Gou Qi Zi, Du Zhong, Tu Si Zi, Dang Gui (tonify)

• Warms and tonifies Kidney yang; replenishes essence and blood

Kidney yang deficiency: cold limbs, sore weak cold lower back and knees, impotence, infertility, frequent pale urination, and dawn diarrhoea.

Tongue: pale with a white coat. Pulse: deep and thin (weak at the proximal position).

For dawn diarrhoea, add Bu Gu Zhi and Wu Wei Zi.

Warming and cloying; not for yin deficiency with heat or damp-heat.