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Suo Quan Wan缩泉丸

Shut the Sluice Pill

Stabilizing and Astringing 固涩剂Stabilize the Essence 涩精止遗

Ingredients2 herbs

天Wu Yao天台乌药细锉Warms the lower burner and moves qi, dispersing the cold that keeps the bladder loose
益益智子大者，去皮，炒

Indications

Warms the Kidney and dispels cold from the lower burnerSecures the bladder and reduces urinary frequencySupports Spleen and Kidney together

Cold deficiency of the lower origin with the bladder failing to restrain. Kidney yang is too weak to warm and to hold, so urine passes often, clear and copious, and everything worsens with cold.

Clinical Manifestations

  • Frequent, copious, pale urination
  • Nocturia in older adults
  • Bedwetting in children
  • Dribbling incontinence with a cold, aching low back and knees
  • Urinary frequency that worsens in cold weather
TonguePale, thin white coating
PulseDeep and thin, or deep and weak

Health Categories

Urinary & Bladder Health

Modern Applications

NocturiaEnuresisOveractive bladderUrinary frequencyBedwetting

Common adjustments

  • Marked Kidney yang deficiency — add Bu Gu Zhi 补骨脂, Tu Si Zi 菟丝子, or combine with Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan 金匮肾气丸
  • Enuresis prominent — add Sang Piao Xiao 桑螵蛸, Fu Pen Zi 覆盆子
  • Middle qi sinking, with fatigue and bearing-down — combine with Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang 补中益气汤
  • Retail granule proportion — the sold granule runs roughly 38% each of Yi Zhi Ren 益智仁 and Shan Yao 山药 to 25% Wu Yao 乌药, rather than the equal parts of the first two given classically

Contraindications

Do not use for urinary frequency with burning, urgency or dark scanty urine — that is a damp-heat pattern, and astringing it traps the pathogen. New or changing urinary symptoms, blood in the urine, or difficulty passing urine need medical assessment before any securing formula is considered.

For licensed practitioners’ reference only — not a self-treatment guide.

Pregnancy

Not established for use in pregnancy — increased urinary frequency in pregnancy is usually physiological or needs assessment for infection, so it should not be self-treated with a securing formula; practitioner supervision required.

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References

Source 《魏氏家藏方》

  1. Classical formularies (public domain); the formula also circulated as 固真丹 and its attribution differs between editions, so none is asserted here.
    2. Scheid, Bensky, Ellis & Barolet. Chinese Herbal Medicine: Formulas & Strategies, 2nd ed. — composition & dosage cross-checked.
    3. 《方剂学》（全国中医药行业高等教育规划教材）— pattern analysis cross-checked.

Professional reference notice. Entries are scholarly references for licensed TCM practitioners and students — not medical advice, and not a recommendation to self-prescribe. Chinese herbal formulas should be used under the guidance of a qualified practitioner. Content is an original editorial compilation by Cura x Cura, cross-checked against the cited references.