<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<record type="formula" updated="2026-09-18T16:35:01.338631+00:00">
  <source>Bencao Index</source>
  <source-url>https://bencaoindex.com/</source-url>
  <canonical>https://bencaoindex.com/formulas/zhi-bai-di-huang-wan/</canonical>
  <licence>Free to use and republish with visible attribution and a link back to the source page. The catalogue is a reference work and is knowingly incomplete; nothing in it is medical advice.</licence>
  <attribution-html>&lt;a href=&quot;https://bencaoindex.com/formulas/zhi-bai-di-huang-wan/&quot;&gt;Bencao Index&lt;/a&gt;</attribution-html>
  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">zhi bai di huang wan</name>
    <name type="english">Anemarrhena, Phellodendron and Rehmannia Pill</name>
  </names>
  <category>Nourish and Tonify Yin</category>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Enriches Yin and nourishes the Essence of the Liver and Kidneys</summary>
      <indication>Yin Deficiency of the Kidney, or of the Liver and Kidney, with flaring Fire</indication>
      <indication>Dizziness, light-headedness and vertigo; tinnitus, dulled hearing or deafness</indication>
      <indication>Sore, weak or numb lower back and knees, weak limbs and muscles, and pain in the heels</indication>
      <indication>Loose teeth, toothache, and swollen, painful gums that are pale red</indication>
      <indication>Dry mouth, tongue and skin; thirst; long-standing dry, sore throat</indication>
      <indication>Wasting-thirst (xiao ke)</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Drains Deficiency Fire</summary>
      <indication>Bone-steaming disorder, with tidal fever, night sweats and heat in the palms, soles and chest</indication>
      <indication>Irritability</indication>
      <indication>Seminal emission, at night or without sexual activity</indication>
      <indication>Damp-Heat in the Lower Jiao over underlying Kidney Yin Deficiency, with difficult, dribbling, scanty or frequent yellow urination</indication>
      <indication>Pain along the midline</indication>
      <indication>Tongue red with little or no coat; pulse thready and rapid, larger at the Kidney positions</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Modern uses</summary>
      <indication>Steaming Bone Disorder</indication>
      <indication>Tidal fevers</indication>
      <indication>Night sweats</indication>
      <indication>Spontaneous perspiration</indication>
      <indication>Hemilateral sweating</indication>
      <indication>Diabetes mellitus</indication>
      <indication>Hyperglycemia</indication>
      <indication>Hyperthyroidism</indication>
      <indication>Cushing&apos;s syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Addison&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Hypertension</indication>
      <indication>Congestive heart failure</indication>
      <indication>Palpitations</indication>
      <indication>Insomnia</indication>
      <indication>Excess dreaming</indication>
      <indication>Forgetfulness</indication>
      <indication>Neurasthenia</indication>
      <indication>Neurosis</indication>
      <indication>Sexual neurosis</indication>
      <indication>Dizziness</indication>
      <indication>Vertigo</indication>
      <indication>Headache</indication>
      <indication>Meniere&apos;s disease</indication>
      <indication>Tinnitus</indication>
      <indication>Deafness</indication>
      <indication>Otitis media</indication>
      <indication>Otorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Optic neuritis</indication>
      <indication>Optic nerve atrophy</indication>
      <indication>Central retinitis</indication>
      <indication>Cataracts</indication>
      <indication>Pterygium</indication>
      <indication>Chronic pharyngitis</indication>
      <indication>Sore throat</indication>
      <indication>Hoarseness</indication>
      <indication>Dry mouth</indication>
      <indication>Toothache</indication>
      <indication>Gingivitis</indication>
      <indication>Lip pain</indication>
      <indication>Tongue pain</indication>
      <indication>Thrush in AIDS/HIV</indication>
      <indication>Epistaxis</indication>
      <indication>Cough</indication>
      <indication>Bronchitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic asthma</indication>
      <indication>COPD</indication>
      <indication>Bronchiaesthenia</indication>
      <indication>Pulmonary tuberculosis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic nephritis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic glomerulonephritis</indication>
      <indication>Pyelonephritis</indication>
      <indication>Nephrotic syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Nephroatrophy</indication>
      <indication>Kidney failure</indication>
      <indication>Ascites</indication>
      <indication>Urinary tract infection</indication>
      <indication>Chronic urinary tract infection</indication>
      <indication>Cystitis</indication>
      <indication>Interstitial cystitis</indication>
      <indication>Strangury</indication>
      <indication>Hematuria</indication>
      <indication>Oliguria</indication>
      <indication>Polyuria</indication>
      <indication>Enuresis</indication>
      <indication>Prostatitis</indication>
      <indication>Prostatic hypertrophy</indication>
      <indication>Male infertility</indication>
      <indication>Hemospermia</indication>
      <indication>Impotence</indication>
      <indication>Premature ejaculation</indication>
      <indication>Spermatorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Nocturnal emissions</indication>
      <indication>Herpes genitalia</indication>
      <indication>Infertility</indication>
      <indication>Irregular menstruation</indication>
      <indication>Amenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Dysmenorrhea</indication>
      <indication>Functional uterine bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Post-menopausal uterine bleeding</indication>
      <indication>Menopause</indication>
      <indication>Polycystic ovary syndrome</indication>
      <indication>Vaginal discharge</indication>
      <indication>Vaginal itch</indication>
      <indication>Vaginal pain</indication>
      <indication>Vaginitis</indication>
      <indication>Senile vaginitis</indication>
      <indication>Morning sickness</indication>
      <indication>Puerperal fever</indication>
      <indication>Failure to thrive</indication>
      <indication>Retarded growth in children</indication>
      <indication>Hydrocephalus</indication>
      <indication>Senility</indication>
      <indication>Geriatric dryness</indication>
      <indication>Weakness</indication>
      <indication>Low back pain</indication>
      <indication>Knee pain</indication>
      <indication>Heel pain</indication>
      <indication>Sciatica</indication>
      <indication>Neck stiffness and pain</indication>
      <indication>Gouty arthritis</indication>
      <indication>Rheumatoid arthritis</indication>
      <indication>Polymyositis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic neuritis</indication>
      <indication>Paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Facial paralysis</indication>
      <indication>Lupus erythematosus</indication>
      <indication>Allergic disorders</indication>
      <indication>Side effects of steroids</indication>
      <indication>Chronic urticaria</indication>
      <indication>Eczema</indication>
      <indication>Dermatitis</indication>
      <indication>Acne</indication>
      <indication>Dry skin</indication>
      <indication>Anemia</indication>
      <indication>Thrombocytopenic purpura</indication>
      <indication>Chronic leukemia</indication>
      <indication>Thrombophlebitis</indication>
      <indication>Cervical lymphadenopathy</indication>
      <indication>Viral hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Infectious hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Chronic hepatitis</indication>
      <indication>Constipation</indication>
      <indication>AIDS/HIV</indication>
      <indication>Bladder cancer</indication>
      <indication>Prostate cancer</indication>
      <indication>Esophageal cancer</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
  <constituents>
    <herb>shu di huang</herb>
    <herb>shan zhu yu</herb>
    <herb>shan yao</herb>
    <herb>fu ling</herb>
    <herb>mu dan pi</herb>
    <herb>ze xie</herb>
    <herb>zhi mu</herb>
    <herb>huang bai</herb>
  </constituents>
</record>
