The same prescriptions used for Blood deficiency under Mind Unsettled are applicable here.
Yin Deficiency
Kidney-Yin Deficiency
Treatment Principle
Nourish Yin, calm the Mind and lift mood.
Acupuncture
General Prescription
KI-3 Taixi, KI-6 Zhaohai, SP-6 Sanyinjiao, Ren-4 Guanyuan, BL-23 Shenshu, BL-52 Zhishi,
Du-20 Baihui. Reinforcing method.
Explanation
- KI-3, KI-6, SP-6 and Ren-4 nourish Kidney-Yin and calm the Mind.
- BL-23 and BL-52 tonify the Kidneys and strengthen Will-Power. Although BL-23 is
better to tonify Kidney-Yang, it is added here for its mental effect in lifting mood. - Du-20 lifts mood and relieves depression.
Herbal Treatment
All the prescriptions mentioned for Yin deficiency causing unsettled Mind are applicable here.
However, the emphasis of those prescriptions was on calming the Mind, whilst in the case of
weakened Mind, the emphasis should be on clearing the Mind and lifting mood. They should
therefore be suitably adapted by the addition of more Yin-nourishing herbs such as Sheng Di
Huang Radix Rehmanniae glutinosae, Mai Men Dong Tuber Ophiopogonis japonici or Tian Men
Dong Tuber Asparagi cochinchinensis.
The following are formulae which nourish Yin with the emphasis on lifting mood rather than
calming the Mind.
Prescription
Liu Wei Di Huang Wan
(Six-Ingredient Rehmannia Pill)