Do you really understand that Liuwei Dihuang Pills can nourish the kidneys if taken correctly, but harm the body if taken incorrectly?

As the most common medicine in Chinese medicine pharmacies, I believe many people have taken Liuwei Dihuang Pills. Liuwei Dihuang Pills is a famous prescription created by Qian Yi in the Northern Song Dynasty. It is mainly used to treat patients with kidney yin deficiency. The main manifestations of kidney yin deficiency are dizziness, tinnitus, soreness of waist and knees, hot flashes, hot hands and feet, dry mouth and throat, night sweats and spermatorrhea.

The characteristics of this prescription are three supplements and three purgatives. The three supplements include cooked rehmannia, Chinese yam, and cornus officinalis, and the three purgatives include oriental water chestnuts, poria cocos, and moutan bark. The three purgatives correspond to the three supplements, oriental water chestnuts for cooked rehmannia, poria cocos for Chinese yam, and moutan bark for cornus officinalis. Why do we need both supplements and purgatives? This is related to the pathogenesis of the diseases that Liuwei Dihuang Pills treat. The symptoms of Liuwei Dihuang Pills are caused by insufficient kidney yin and virtual fire inflammation. The virtual fire here refers to the relative excess of kidney yang caused by insufficient kidney yin, that is, the inability of yin to control yang. This kind of fire needs to be protected and needs to be guided back to the origin.

Everyone likes to take medicine with warm water, but in fact, the best way to take Liuwei Dihuang Pills is to use warm and light salt water. Salt is also a traditional Chinese medicine that has the effects of clearing heat, cooling blood, and detoxifying. The kidney tastes salty, so taking medicine with light salt water can lead the medicine into the kidney meridian, helping Liuwei Dihuang Pills reach the diseased area directly and better play the role of nourishing yin and tonifying the kidney.

Oral Liuwei Dihuang Pills are taken for four weeks as a course of treatment, and about two courses of treatment are needed. It is generally not recommended to take the medicine continuously. It is recommended to take a week off after a course of treatment, or take two days off in the middle of the week to allow the body to get enough rest. Of course, the course of treatment for various diseases is also different. For example, patients with chronic fatigue are recommended to take Liuwei Dihuang Pills for about one course of treatment, and menopausal syndrome requires several months or even half a year. Sometimes it is also necessary to cooperate with other drug treatments to help relieve symptoms.

Liuwei Dihuang Pills are cold in nature. Long-term use will damage the spleen and stomach yang, causing cold pain in the stomach, hiccups, vomiting, vomiting of clear water or sputum, abdominal distension and diarrhea, etc. If the symptoms are not relieved after taking the medicine for more than four weeks, you need to go to the hospital for treatment in time.