Yuye Tang (Jade Fluid Decoction)

醫學衷中參西錄

Raw Chinese Yam 30 g, Raw Astragalus 15 g, Anemarrhena 18 g, Raw Chicken Gizzard Lining 6 g (pounded fine), Kudzu Root 4.5 g, Schisandra 9 g, Trichosanthes Root 9 g.

Boil six bowls of water down to two bowls. Take one bowl warm after breakfast and one bowl warm after dinner.

湯劑

Supplement qi and nourish yin, stabilize the kidney and relieve thirst.

Wasting-thirst disorder due to original qi failing to rise, true yin insufficiency, dual deficiency of the spleen and kidney, and Body Fluids unable to reach upward to the lung. Symptoms include frequent dry thirst that drinking water does not relieve, frequent urination, fatigue and shortness of breath, and a weak, thin, forceless pulse. In modern times, for diabetes mellitus, diabetes insipidus, and other conditions with thirst and excessive urination belonging to qi-yin dual deficiency, this formula may be used with modifications.

Severe Qi deficiency: add ginseng:12. -- If urination remains frequent after taking it: add Shan Zhu Yu (Cornus officinalis):15.