Bu Shen Gu Chong Wan

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Source: You You Xin Shu

Last updated October 1, 2026

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Description

Bu Shen Gu Chong Wan (Kidney-Supplementing and Penetrating Vessel-Securing Pill), from A New Book of Pediatrics (You You Xin Shu).

Actions: Supplement the kidney and fortify the spleen, and regulate the chong and ren mai

Indications: Indicated for the treatment of habitual miscarriage (“slippery fetus”; huá tāi ) due to kidney qi insufficiency, with repeated pregnancy and abortion, even abortion at regular period, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees after pregnancy, dizziness, tinnitus, frequent urination at night, fatigue and lack of strength, less eating, dim complexion, pale tongue with thin and white coating, thready and slippery pulse, deep and weak chi pulse

Category: Formulas That Supplement Yang.

Source: Xi S, Gong Y. Essentials of Chinese Materia Medica and Medical Formulas: New Century Traditional Chinese Medicine. Academic Press/Elsevier, 2017, pp. 603–605.

Preparation

Grind the ingredients into power, make into pills as size of broomcorn millet fruit, and take 10–15 pills each time, 3 times a day; or decrease the dosage according to the original proportion and decoct with water for oral use

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