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Ren Shen Shou Wu Wan - Ginseng Fo-Ti Pills

人参首乌丸

Clinical Usage

  • Hair loss, dry hair, greying hair as a result of dimished jing/essence.
  • Low sperm count, low libedo, and infertility.

Clinician Notes

This formula is for hair loss due to jing or blood deficiency - it is not for genetic related hair loss.

Relationships
Formulas Related by Clinical Functions

Ren Shen Shou Wu Wan is in the "Tonify the Qi and Blood" group within the "Tonify" category.

Other Formulas in "Tonify the Qi and Blood" (7)

Other Formulas in "Tonify" (36)

Common Formula Ingredients

Ren Shen Shou Wu Wan is generally comprised of the following 5 ingredients:

Bu Gu Zhi
Bu Gu Zhi
Psoralea Fruit
  • Tonify Kidney, strengthen yang - impotence, premature ejaculation, cold and painful lower back.
  • Stabilizes jing and reserves urine - enuresis, incontinence of urine, frequent urination, spermatorrhea.
  • Tonify and strengthen spleen yang - cold deficient spleen diarrhea, borborygmus, abdominal pain.
  • Aids kidneys to grasp lung qi - wheezing, asthma.
  • Apply topically for alopecia, psoriasis, vitiligo.
Bu Gu Zhi is also included in 4 formulas
Dang Gui
Dang Gui
Chinese Angelica Root
  • Tonifies the blood, regulates menses - pallid, ashen complexion, tinnitus, blurred vision, palpitations, irregular menses, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea.
  • Invigorates/harmonizes the blood, disperses cold - important herb to stop pain due to blood stasis - abdominal pain, trauma, carbuncles due to blood stasis, chronic bi.
  • Moistens dry intestines due to blood deficiency.
  • Reduces swellings, expels pus, generates flesh - sores.
Dang Gui is also included in 66 formulas
Dang Shen
Dang Shen
Codonopsis Root
  • Tonifies the middle warmer, augments the qi - lack of appetite, fatigue, diarrhea, vomiting, any spleen qi deficiency issues, prolapse of uterus, stomach, rectum.
  • Tonifies the lungs - lung deficiency w/chronic cough, shortness of breath, copious sputum due to spleen qi deficiency.
  • Nourishes fluids - xiao ke, thirst due to injury to fluids.
  • Often used with herbs that release the exterior when patient has significant qi deficiency.
Dang Shen is also included in 11 formulas
Gou Qi Zi
Gou Qi Zi
Chinese Wolfberry Fruit
  • Nourish and tonify liver and kidney - yin and/or blood deficiency w/sore back and legs, low grade abdominal pain, impotence, nocturnal emission, xiao ke; neutral nature - commonly used for liver and kidney deficiency.
  • Benefits the essence and brightens the eyes - essence and blood are unable to nourish eyes, dizziness, blurred vision, diminished acuity.
  • Enrich yin and moisten the lungs - consumptive cough.
Gou Qi Zi is also included in 9 formulas
He Shou Wu
He Shou Wu
Polygonum, Fleeceflower Root
  • Tonifies liver and kidney, nourishes blood, augments essence - yin and/or blood deficiency w/dizziness, blurred vision, prematurely grey hair, weakness in the lower back and knees, sore limbs, insomnia, nocturnal emission, spermatorrhea, vaginal discharge; neither cold, drying, nor too cloying.
  • Relieves toxic fire - carbuncles, sores, scrofula, neck lumps.
  • Moistens intestines - constipation associated with blood deficiency.
  • Expels wind from skin by nourishing the blood.
  • Chronic malaria w/qi and blood deficiency.
He Shou Wu is also included in 7 formulas