The difference between Jinkui Shenqi Pills and Yougui Pills

Many people suffer from kidney deficiency, especially male friends. When kidney deficiency occurs, some people will take Jinkui Shenqi Pills, and some people will take Yougui Pills. Both Jinkui Shenqi Pills and Yougui Pills have the effect of nourishing yin and tonifying the kidney. So, what is the difference between Jinkui Shenqi Pills and Yougui Pills?

The ingredients of Yougui Pills include cooked rehmannia, roasted aconite root, cinnamon powder, Chinese yam, cornus officinalis (roasted with wine), dodder seed, antler glue, wolfberry, chuanxiong, and eucommia (fried with salt). Yougui Pills are made by subtracting the "three laxatives" (Alisma chinensis, Coix seed, and Cortex Moutan) from Jinkui Shenqi Pills, and adding antler glue, Cuscuta chinensis, Eucommia ulmoides, Lycium barbarum, and Ligusticum chuanxiong. It enhances the effect of clearing and tonifying and makes the medicinal power more focused on clearing and tonifying. It is a very well-known clearing and tonifying prescription.

Yougui Pills nourish yin and strengthen the kidney, replenish essence and benefit the marrow. It is mainly used to treat the symptoms of spleen and kidney deficiency caused by deficiency of life gate fire, fatigue, fear of cold and cold limbs, impotence, frequent spermatorrhea, infertility, sore waist and weak legs, involuntary urination, pain in limbs, and edema of the whole body; or fire cannot generate earth, spleen and stomach are weak, the diet is poor, or nausea and bloating, or stomach retching, or pain in the navel and abdomen, or loose bowel movements, and frequent diarrhea.

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Beijing Tong Ren Tang Jin Kui Shen Qi Pills

The ingredients of Jinkui Shenqi Pills are raw rehmannia, Chinese yam, cornus officinalis (roasted with wine), coix seed, peony bark, Alisma orientalis, cinnamon twig, rhubarb (roasted), Achyranthes bidentata (head removed), and Plantago seed (roasted with salt). Nourish yin and kidney, and vaporize water. It is used for edema due to kidney deficiency, sore waist and weak legs, difficulty urinating, chills and cold limbs. Shenqi Pills uses Liuwei Dihuang Pills to nourish the yin of the kidney, uses Lutein and cinnamon twigs to strengthen the yang in the kidney, and uses the method of seeking yang in yin to achieve the purpose of nourishing yin and tonifying the kidney. Yang is helped by yin and biochemistry is unlimited. The ratio of Ju Rui's Lu Te Technology and cinnamon twigs for nourishing yin and tonifying the kidney to Liu Wei Di Huang Wan for nourishing and nourishing the yin of the kidney is 1:12.5. The amount of Lu Te Technology and cinnamon twigs used in the whole prescription is less than 1/8. Furthermore, it best reflects the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine that "less fire can generate more fire", and also shows that this method is used to slowly generate kidney essence instead of quickly strengthening kidney qi.