Mai Wei Di Huang Wan and Liu Wei Di Huang Wan are both yin tonic formulas, and their differences are mainly in drug composition, efficacy and main treatment.
1. Composition: Mai Wei Di Huang Wan consists of ripened rhubarb, cornelian cherry, dried yam, zedoary, moutan skin, Poria, maitake, and schizandra. Maitake Dihuang Pill does not contain maitake dong and schizandra.
2. Efficacy: Mai Wei Di Huang Wan has the effect of nourishing the lungs and kidneys, favoring nourishing the kidneys and astringing the lungs (astringing the lung qi). Liu Wei Di Huang Wan has the effect of nourishing the liver and kidney.
3. Indications: Mai Wei Di Huang Wan is indicated for asthma and coughing with deficiency of lung and kidney yin. Clinically, it can be seen as deficiency vexation (vexation caused by deficiency heat in the body), laborious heat, coughing and vomiting blood, hot flashes (a burst of heat), night sweating (abnormal sweating after going to sleep and stopping sweating after waking up).
Liuwei Di Huang Wan is used to treat liver and kidney yin deficiency (deficiency of yin and fluid in the liver and kidneys) syndrome, with common clinical symptoms such as lumbar and knee soreness (a feeling of soreness and weakness in the lumbar and knee regions), dizziness, tinnitus and deafness, bone vaporization and tidal fever (a burst of fever, feeling that the heat is penetrating from inside the bone to the outside), dry mouth and throat, shaking of the teeth, a red tongue with little moss and sunken, thin and countless pulse.
The adverse reactions and contraindications of Maiwei Di Huang Wan are not clear. Liuwei Di Huang Wan has adverse reactions such as diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, etc. It is contraindicated for those who are allergic to this product and the ingredients contained in it.
When choosing Mai Wei Di Huang Wan or Liu Wei Di Huang Wan for clinical treatment, it is necessary to take the medication according to the doctor’s prescription in accordance with the individual’s condition after the professional doctor’s diagnosis and treatment, and must not be used on its own.