Yin deficiency syndrome in traditional Chinese medicine refers to the loss of body fluid.

The common symptoms are zygomatic arch, emaciation, hot flashes and night sweats, vexation and fever, dry mouth and throat, red tongue with little coating, and rapid pulse.

Yin deficiency is the syndrome of deficiency heat, and the method of nourishing yin and clearing heat is often used.

Yin deficiency belongs to different viscera, and all drugs are different.

Liuwei Dihuang Pill is a well-known Chinese patent medicine for treating yin deficiency, and it is also the best-selling category in pharmacies. In addition, there are these Chinese patent medicines, which can be used for different types of yin deficiency syndrome.

0 1 Liuwei Dihuang Pill

Efficacy: nourishing yin and tonifying kidney. It is used for yin deficiency syndrome caused by kidney yin deficiency. The corresponding symptoms include dizziness, tinnitus, soreness of waist and knees, hot flashes due to bone steaming, night sweats, nocturnal emission, and thirst quenching.

Medication tip: Not suitable for people with solid body, cold due to yang deficiency, qi stagnation due to spleen deficiency, and eating less and being stupid.

Drug characteristics: Liuwei Dihuang Pill has three tonics and three diarrhea, and it is not greasy.

02 Zuo Guiwan

Efficacy: tonifying kidney and nourishing yin. Used for deficiency of true yin, soreness of waist and knees, nocturnal emission, mental fatigue, and dry mouth.

Medication tip: Use with caution for patients with kidney yang deficiency, qi deficiency and lumbago due to yang deficiency. Use with caution in patients with low back pain caused by exogenous cold and dampness, traumatic injury, qi stagnation and blood stasis. Pregnant women should use it with caution.

Drug characteristics: Zuogui Pill focuses on tonifying deficiency and nourishing, but it is a little greasy.

03 White Dihuang Pills

Efficacy: nourishing yin and reducing fire. Can be used for treating yin deficiency and excessive fire, hot flashes and night sweats, dry mouth and sore throat, tinnitus and nocturnal emission, and short and red urine.

Medication tip: Use with caution those who have a cold, fever due to qi deficiency, excess heat, loose stool due to spleen deficiency and full qi stagnation.

Drug characteristics: reinforcing middle-jiao and purging, nourishing yin and reducing fire.

04 Dabuyin pills

Efficacy: nourishing yin and reducing fire. For yin deficiency and excessive fire, hot flashes, night sweats, cough and hemoptysis, tinnitus and nocturnal emission.

Medication tip: Use with caution those who have a cold, fever due to qi deficiency, excess heat, spleen and stomach weakness, phlegm-dampness internal resistance, abdominal distension and anorexia in loose stool.

Drug characteristics: nourishing yin and reducing fire go hand in hand, treating both the symptoms and root causes.

05 Maiwei Dihuang Pills

Efficacy: nourishing kidney and moistening lung. Used for deficiency of lung and kidney yin, hot flashes, night sweats, dry throat, coughing up blood, dizziness, tinnitus, soreness of waist and knees, and thirst quenching.

Medication tip: Use with caution for patients with cold.

Drug characteristics: nourishing both kidney yin and lung yin, treating both deficiency of lung yin and kidney yin, moistening dryness and astringing lung.

06 Yuquan pill

Efficacy: clearing heat and nourishing yin, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. It is used for quenching thirst caused by yin deficiency and internal heat, and is aimed at patients with type 2 diabetes who drink more, eat more and urinate more.

Medication tip: pregnant women should not use it; Use with caution those who are thirsty due to deficiency of both yin and yang.

Drug characteristics: clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, with specific efficacy, aiming at the thirst-quenching syndrome of yin deficiency and internal heat.

Baihe gujin pill

Efficacy: nourishing yin and moistening lung. It can be used for lung and kidney yin deficiency syndrome, characterized by dry cough without phlegm, or less and sticky sputum, or blood in sputum, dry mouth and throat or hoarseness, emaciation, flushing of cheekbones, fever of hands and feet, night sweats, and tongue dysfunction.

Medication tip: Yang deficiency syndrome and wind-heat cold cough are not applicable.

Drug characteristics: nourishing liver and kidney, relieving cough and resolving phlegm.

08 Tianwang Buxin Dan

Efficacy: nourishing the heart and calming the nerves, nourishing yin and clearing heat. Used for heart-yin deficiency syndrome. Symptoms include palpitation, insomnia, dreaminess, dizziness, forgetfulness, hot flashes, night sweats, red tongue with little coating and rapid pulse.

Medication tip: The prescription should not be taken for a long time if the medicine is too greasy, the spleen and stomach are deficient and cold, the appetite is poor, the phlegm is wet and the tongue coating is white and greasy.

Drug characteristics: nourishing, clearing away heat, calming the nerves, clearing away heat and nourishing yin.

The above are commonly used Chinese patent medicines for Yin deficiency syndrome. Each medicine has its own emphasis. For different viscera-yin deficiency syndrome, it should be used according to the symptoms.