Golden Lock Pill for Securing Essence

醫方集解

Stir-fried Sha Yuan Ji Li (Astragalus complanatus seed), steamed Euryale seed, lotus stamen: 2 liang; butter-roasted Dragon Bone, oyster shell boiled in salt water for one day and one night then calcined into powder: 1 liang; form pills with lotus seed powder paste; take with salt water. (Yi Fang Ji Jie)

Form pills with lotus seed powder paste; take with salt water (Modern usage: grind together into a fine powder, form pills with lotus seed powder paste; take 9 g each time, 2-3 times daily, swallowed with mild salt water on an empty stomach; also used as a Decoction, with the dosage reduced proportionally according to the original formula, adding an appropriate amount of lotus seed flesh, decocted in water).

湯劑

Astringe essence and tonify the kidney.

Involuntary seminal slippage, soreness of the loins, tinnitus, mental fatigue and lack of strength, pale tongue with white coating, fine and weak pulse.

Seminal emission with dream discharge: add Cherokee rose fruit (Jin Ying Zi), Schisandra fruit (Wu Wei Zi). -- Discharge of white turbidity: add mantis egg-case (Sang Piao Xiao), Dioscorea hypoglauca (Bi Xie). -- Deficiency restlessness and dry thirst: add Ophiopogon root (Mai Men Dong), ginseng. -- Women's white vaginal discharge: add Poria (Fu Ling), Coix seed (Yi Yi Ren). -- Kidney Yang deficiency: add Psoralea fruit (Bu Gu Zhi), cinnamon bark, prepared aconite. -- Kidney Yin deficiency: add vinegar-processed turtle shell, glossy privet fruit (Nü Zhen Zi). -- Yin deficiency with hyperactive fire: add Anemarrhena rhizome (Zhi Mu), Phellodendron bark (Huang Bai). -- Heart vexation and insomnia: add wild jujube seed (Suan Zao Ren), Biota seed (Bai Zi Ren), Schisandra fruit. -- With cold: add cinnamon bark, prepared aconite. -- Dry bound stool: add prepared rehmannia, Cistanche deserticola. -- Loose watery stool: add Psoralea fruit, dodder seed (Tu Si Zi), Schisandra fruit. -- Soreness and pain of the loins and knees: add Eucommia bark (Du Zhong), Dipsacus root (Xu Duan). -- With impotence: add Cynomorium (Suo Yang), Epimedium (Yin Yang Huo).

Because this formula is inclined to be astringent and consolidating, it is contraindicated for spermatorrhea or vaginal discharge caused by internal blazing of ministerial fire or lower-burner Damp-heat.