Gui Zhi Long Bone and Oyster Soup

Gui Zhi Long Bone and Oyster Tang is mainly used to treat men’s sperm loss, women’s dream intercourse, spontaneous sweating (involuntary sweating during the daytime, aggravated by the slightest movement of sweating), night sweating (abnormal sweating after going to sleep, sweating stops after waking up), and enuresis. Gui Zhi Long Bone and Oyster Soup is a formula that should be used under the guidance of a doctor. Gui Zhi Long Bone and Oyster Soup is a Chinese medicine formula from Jin Gui (金匮), Volume 1. It is mainly used to treat the symptoms of sperm loss in men, dream intercourse in women, spontaneous sweating and night sweating, and enuresis. It is composed of three taels each of dragon bone, oyster, cinnamon stick, peony and ginger, two taels of licorice and twelve jujubes. It has the effects of regulating yin and yang, harmonizing Ying and Wei, as well as consolidating semen, congesting yin and yang, regulating Ying and Wei (making the body’s internal and external qi smooth, each in its own way), transporting the heart and kidneys (the heart’s fire descends and the kidneys’ water rises, which are in mutual control) (the heart’s fire descends and the kidneys’ water rises, which are in mutual control), and fixing and stopping seminal emission (consolidating semen and preventing seminal emission). The general practice is to pour in seven liters of water and decoct with the herbs. Boil until three liters of water remain, and then take it in three times. If this formula is to be used, it should be used under the supervision of a doctor.