Nine Flavor Tea

Nine Flavor Tea 90 tabs | Health Concerns

Modified Liu Wei Di Huang Wan Herbal Supplement

Symptoms

• Low back pain

• Menopause - Night Sweats

• Sjogren's syndrome

• Yin deficiency

• Arthralgia and Arthritis (Bi syndromes) - Deficiency of yin with heat

• Back, Weak - Kidney yin deficiency

• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Deficiency of yin with heat

• Constipation - Deficiency of yin

• Dizziness - Liver yin deficiency

• Ear-Ringing - Kidney yin deficiency

• Eye, Dry

• Eye, Spots in Vision - Liver yin deficiency

• Fatigue - Kidney yin deficiency

• Fever - Afternoon low grade (deficiency of yin with heat)

• Goiter - Yin deficiency

• Hives - Yin deficiency

• Hot Palms and Soles

• Hyperactive Thyroid

• Insomnia - Deficiency yin and heat

• Kidney infection - Yin deficiency with heat signs (promotes urination)

• Menopause - Hot Flashes

• Menses, Irregular - Liver yin deficiency

• Yin deficiency heat - chronic sore throat, night sweats, treats dryness

• Tonic formula - Nourish yin

• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Therapeutic Actions

1. Treat chronic and recurrent sore throat with lymphatic swelling
2. Treat oral sores accompanied by thirst and insomnia
3. Treat a symptom combination that includes facial flushing, afternoon fevers, chronic inflammation, burning soles and palms, nightsweats, blurred vision, dizziness, tinnitus, and impotence

Chinese Therapeutic Effects

Nourish liver, kidney, stomach, spleen yin
Clear stomach heat and heart fire
Tonify kidney and spleen qi

Formula Rationale

Nine Flavor Tea is based on 8 Flavor Tea (Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan) but is more suitable for long term treatment of yin deficiency heat symptoms. Anemarrhena (zhi mu) and phellodendron(huang bai) have been removed and replaced by ophiopogon (mai men dong), glehnia (sha shen), and scrophularia (xuan shen) to enhance the yin nourishing quality of this formula. Scrophularia also helps resolve lymphatic swelling.
 

Clinical Notes

1. Nine Flavor Tea can be used as a foundation formula for treating diabetes
2. Is useful for high blood pressure with kidney yin deficiency as its root cause
3. Clinical reports of effectiveness in treating acne due to yin deficiency
4. Addressing yin deficiency usually requires several months of herbal therapy

Additional Formulas

• For kidney yang tonification, use Rehmannia 8, Backbone, or Virility Tabs
• For balanced and complete kidney tonification, use Astra Essence
• For greater heat clearing to approximate Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan combine Nine Flavor Tea (3 tablets TID) and Coptis Purge Fire (1 to 3 tablets TID)
• If patients have weak digestion consider Quiet Digestion before or in addition to this formula
• For yin deficiency without rehmannia consider Fertile Garden. For yin deficiency and dampness consider Clearing