Seven Treasures Beard-Beautifying Pill

本草綱目引積善堂方

He Shou Wu (Polygonum multiflorum; large roots, red and white each one jin; remove skin, slice, mix with black beans, steam and sun-dry nine times), White Poria (mixed with milk), Huai Niu Xi (soaked in wine and steamed together with He Shou Wu from the seventh through ninth steaming), Angelica (washed in wine), Goji (soaked in wine), and Dodder seed (soaked in wine and steamed), each half a jin, and Psoralea (mixed with black sesame and fried, four liang net). Make honey pills; take with salt water or wine; also avoid iron utensils. (Yi Fang Ji Jie)

The above is ground into powder; refined honey is made into pills the size of a bullet, 150 pills in total. Take with warm wine in the early morning, with ginger decoction at noon, and with salt water at bedtime. (Modern usage: grind fine, make honey pills, each pill weighs 10 g; take one pill each morning and evening with lightly salted boiled water; it may also be changed to a decoction, with amounts determined according to the proportions of the original formula.)

湯劑

Tonify the liver and kidney, darken the hair, and strengthen the bones.

1. Liver-kidney weakness, insufficiency of qi and blood, premature graying of beard and hair, loose and shaking teeth, nocturnal emissions and seminal slippage, weakness of sinews and bones, and emaciation. 2. In women, insufficiency of qi and blood, sallow complexion, fatigue and lack of strength, clear thin leukorrhea, and soreness and weakness of the lower back and legs.

Kidney deficiency with weak pulse at both chi positions: add fennel: 10. -- In winter, easily itching skin or easily losing hair, with a wiry, thin pulse: combine with Xiaoyao San. -- Premature graying of beard and hair: add black sesame: 10, Eclipta: 10, Ligustrum: 10.

Avoid all kinds of blood, scaleless fish, radish, garlic, scallion, and iron utensils; avoid eating distiller's grains and vinegar.