Rehmannia Root (washed), Prepared Rehmannia Root (washed and steamed), Asparagus Root (peeled), Ophiopogon Root (de-cored), each 30 gm; Ginseng 15 gm (from empirical secret formulas, good prescriptions, and the New Book of Longevity and Elderly Care, each 30 gm).

bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage

Grind the above five ingredients into powder, and make them into pills with refined honey, each as big as a phoenix tree seed. Take 30 pills each time, before meals, with warm wine or salt water.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Tonifying blood and qi, generating essence and strengthening the foundation, prolonging life and promoting longevity.

bubble_chart Indications

Blood deficiency leads to essence depletion, premature graying of hair, and aging appearance; or spleen deficiency causes vexing heat and insufficiency of metal and water; or lung qi dryness-heat results in thirst and cough; or scanty and reddish urine, astringent and stagnant as if dribbling, dry and accumulated stool, and other signs of yin deficiency with fire.