HERB FORMULAS

DA BU YIN WAN

English: Great Tonify the Yin Pill
Also Known As: Da Bu Wan

HERBS AND ACTIONS

Pharmaceutical Latin
Pin Yin
Dosage
Actions
Rx. Rehmanniae Preparata Shu Di Huang 6-30g Tonifies the Liver and Kidneys and nourishes Yin.
 With Gui Ban, controls Kidney Fire.
With Gui Ban, Huang Bai and Zhi Mu, enhances formula’s ability to treat Deficiency Heat.
Deep-fried Plastrum Testudinis Su Jiu Gui Ban 6-30g Nourishes Yin, anchors Yang and benefits the Kidneys.
Deep-fried Cx. Phellodendri Chao Huang Bai 4-20g Drains Damp-Heat especially from the lower Jiao and drains Kidney Fire (False Heat).
Wine-fried Rx. Anemarrhenae Jiu Chao Zhi Mu 4-20g Clears Heat, drains Fire, nourishes Yin, moistens Dryness, nourishes the Lungs and generates Fluids.
With Chao Huang Bai, clears Heat drains Fire, treats Yin Deficiency with night sweats, dizziness and vertigo, and nourishes and protects Yin.
Pig Spinal Cord Zhu Ji Shui 25-50g Strengthens the bones and marrow and cools the Blood.
(Apis Mel) (Feng Mi)   (Moderates the bitter, drying properties of Huang Bai.)

FORMULA ACTIONS

  • Nourishes Yin
  • Descends Fire

SYNDROMES

  • Liver Yin Deficiency with Yang Rising
  • Lung and Kidney Yin Deficiencies
  • Liver and Kidney Yin Deficiencies (with Fire Flaring)

CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS

  • Steaming bone disorder
  • Afternoon fever
  • Night sweats
  • Spontaneous seminal emissions
  • Irritability
  • Heat and pain in the knees (maybe with weakness)
  • Red face
  • Restless fever
  • Hematemesis
  • Sore knees
  • Sore lower back
  • Maybe hemoptysis
  • May be constant hunger
  • Hot flashes
  • Restless
  • Insomnia
  • Productive bloody cough
  • Easily angered
  • Nightmares
  • Sore feet with flaccidity
  • Tinnitus
  • Burning sensation over Kidneys
  • Dizziness or vertigo
  • Five sole heat
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready, Shi and rapid in the Chi position

TREATS:

  • Tuberculosis (lungs, kidneys, or bones) Bronchiectasis
  • Diabetes mellitus
  • Hyperthyroidism
  • Neurasthenia
  • Severe menopausal hot flashes
  • Lumbago
  • Chronic nephritis
  • Addison’s disease

CONTRAINDICATIONS AND HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

CONTRAINDICATIONS
  • Contraindicated for those with Excess Fire.
  • Use caution with poor appetite and loose stools.
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

NOTES

  • Combine with pork gelatin and honey to make pills to enhance its Yin nourishing function.

MODIFICATIONS

For severe night sweats: For hemoptysis:
+ Concha Ostreae Mu Li + Hb. Agrimoniae Xian He Cao
+ Sm. Tritici Levis Fu Xiao Mai + Cacumen Platycladi Ce Bai Ye
For difficult to expectorate sputum:
For severe spontaneous emissions:
+ Rx. Stemonae Bai Bu + Sm. Euryales Qian Shi
+ Flos Farfare Kuan Dong Hua + Fr. Rosae Laevigatae Jin Ying Zi
For stronger Yin tonification and Fire sedating:
    
+ Colla Corii Asini E Jiao