There are about 4 prescriptions of Liuwei Dihuang Pill with the same name. Now, the prescription of Dihuang Pill is selected from "The Straight Tactics of Children's Medical Certificate" written by Qian Yi, a famous doctor in Song Dynasty. In this prescription, the aconite and cassia twig in Shenqi Pill Prescription written by Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage, were deleted: eight yuan for Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, four yuan for Cornus officinalis, four yuan for dried Chinese yam, and four yuan for Alisma orientale, Cortex Moutan, Poria (peeled) and San Qian. The top is the end, honey is the pill, and it is as big as a buttonwood. Take three capsules each time and dissolve them in hollow warm water.
Liuwei Dihuang Pill is a widely used prescription. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Liuwei Dihuang Pill has the function of nourishing kidney yin and is suitable for kidney deficiency, dizziness, tinnitus, soreness of waist and knees, thirst and nocturnal emission.
Liuwei Dihuang Pill has many effects in medicine, such as delaying aging, regulating human immune function, inhibiting tumor, regulating human urinary function, lowering blood fat, lowering blood sugar, reducing plasma viscosity, preventing arrhythmia and so on. The effects on reproductive system are: protecting liver and improving intelligence.
Although Liuwei Dihuang Pill has many benefits to human body, you should pay attention to the following matters when taking it:
Liuwei Dihuang Pill is an over-the-counter drug, not a health product. General healthy people should not use this medicine casually, otherwise it will easily lead to excessive nourishing yin, resulting in imbalance of yin and yang in the human body, leading to the occurrence of diseases. Not suitable for people with yang deficiency. Some people with erectile dysfunction caused by kidney-yang deficiency will get worse if they keep taking this medicine.
In addition, because Liuwei Dihuang Pill has the function of greasy stomach, which hinders the transportation and transformation of spleen and stomach, the spleen and stomach are weak and indigestion, so it is not suitable for people in loose stool. Liuwei Dihuang Pill is suitable for people with yin deficiency of liver and kidney, and also for menopausal women.
Caution: People who are using rifampicin should not take the drug again. Cornus officinalis in this medicine will precipitate a lot of organic acids, which can cause renal reabsorption and lead to nephrotoxicity, so this medicine is prohibited when rifampicin is used. It can be seen that not everyone is suitable for taking this medicine, and it is unscientific to say that taking Liuwei Dihuang Pill for a long time will make you younger.