Mingmu Dihuang Wan

Mingmu Dihuang Wan

Mingmu Dihuang Pills (simplified Chinese: 明目地黄丸; traditional Chinese: 明目地黃丸) is a blackish-brown pill used in Traditional Chinese medicine to "nourish yin of the liver and the kidney, and to improve eyesight". [1] Its odor is slightly aromatic. It tastes sweet, bitter and astringent. It is used where there is "deficiency of yin of the liver and the kidney marked by dryness of the eye, photophobia, blurred vision and lacrimination during exposure to the wind ". [2] The binding agent is honey.


Chinese classic herbal formula

Name Chinese (S) Grams
Radix Rehmanniae Preparata 熟地黄 160
Fructus Corni (processed) 山茱萸 (炙) 80
Cortex Moutan 牡丹皮 60
Rhizoma Dioscoreae 山药 80
Poria 茯苓 60
Rhizoma Alismatis 泽泻 60
Fructus Lycii 枸杞子 60
Flos Chrysanthemi 菊花 60
Radix Angelicae Sinensis 当归 60
Radix Paeoniae Alba 白芍 60
Fructus Tribuli 蒺藜 60
Concha Haliotidis (calcined) 石决明 (煅) 80

See also

References

  1. ^ State Pharmacopoeia Commission of the PRC (2005). "Pharmacopoeia of The People's Republic of China (Volume I)". Chemical Industry Press. ISBN 7-117-06982-1.
  2. ^ Zuo Yanfu, Zhu Zhongbao, Huang Yuezhong, Tao Jinweng, Li Zhaoguo. "Science of Prescriptions", Publishing House of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. 2002. ISBN 7-81010-650-3.

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