1. Ginseng and Sea Horse Powder: Equal parts of ginseng, sea horse, and fennel seeds. Grind them into a fine powder and add a pinch of salt. Take 1g with warm water. This formula replenishes vital energy, strengthens kidney yang, and warms the kidneys. It is used for kidney yang deficiency, insufficient vital energy, lower back pain, and weakness.
2. Sea Horse Asthma Relief Powder
Ingredients: 5g sea horse, 10g angelica root
Method: Crush the sea horse, add angelica root and water, and decoct twice. Take twice a day.
Indication: Kidney deficiency asthma.
3. Youth-Restoring Pill
Ingredients: 1 pair of sea horse, 37g each of agarwood, white poria, toosendan fruit, prepared rehmannia, silkworm moth, mulberry cicada, herba epimedii, storax, walnuts, gourd bean, 55g wood incense, 18g safflower, myrrh, lotus seed core, clean lotus meat, fine ink, dragon bone, cinnabar, 26g dodder, 39g eucommia bark, 11g old paper, green salt and 3g musk.
Method: Slightly fry the sea horse; soak herba epimedii, walnuts, gourd bean, dodder, eucommia bark, and old paper in alcohol; grind myrrh; calcine dragon bone; grind storax into powder.
Grind all the above ingredients into powder, mix with alcohol to form pills the size of Chinese parasol tree seeds. Take 30 pills each time, gradually increasing to 50 pills. Take on an empty stomach with warm wine or warm water. In summer, it is better to take with clear tea. This formula treats kidney yang weakness, insufficient qi and blood, weak tendons and bones, poor appetite, and premature aging.
4. Sea Horse Wind-Chasing Ointment
Ingredients: 130g frankincense, 130g myrrh, 120g sea horse, leopard bone, angelica root, purple magnolia bark, chinese thoroughwax, cow knee, white aconite, 60g red peony root, osteon, pangolin, cinnamon twig, prepared sichuan lovage rhizome, 30g safflower, wind chasing, thousand years health, blood coagulation each, 60g.
Method: Grind frankincense, myrrh, sea horse, and blood coagulation into powder separately, mix well. Fry other ingredients in oil (sesame oil) until charred, remove impurities, add an appropriate amount of guang dan and cook until the mixture forms beads. Then add the previously ground powder, stir well while cooking. Apply the ointment on red cotton cloth. Each piece of ointment is 45-60g, warm it before use to make it soft, and apply it to the affected acupoints. Change the ointment once a week. This formula treats wind-cold dampness arthritis, shoulder and back pain, leg pain, weakness, and bone and joint pain.
5. Three Whip Wine
Ingredients: deer whip, sea dog whip, dog whip, clam, sea horse, deer antler, ginseng, fragrant flowers, agarwood, dragon bone, yangqi stone, raspberry, mulberry cicada.
Method: Cut all ingredients into small pieces and soak in alcohol for 10 days. Drink twice a day, 50ml each time. Take in the morning and evening. This formula treats kidney deficiency, neurasthenia, lower back pain, anemia, dizziness, palpitations, forgetfulness, spontaneous and night sweats.
6. Turtle Age-Extending Wine (also known as "Laojun Yishou San" or "Helin Dan")
Ingredients: 100g deer antler, 100g ginseng, 30g cooked Rehmannia, 40g pangolin, 40g Eucommia bark, 20g Chinese wolfberry, 20g Eucommia ulmoides, 50g sea horse, 10g silkworm moth, 20g epimedium, 20g lycium, 100g black aconite, 40g raw Rehmannia, 20g sparrow brain, 10g licorice, 20g Chinese knee, 40g green salt, 20g bone repair, 2g sulfur, 10g asarum, 50g swallow's nest, 20g mulberry cicada, 20g yin yanghuo, 20g sandalwood, 30g dodder, 15g cloves, 10000mL white wine.
Method: Cut all ingredients into small pieces, put them in the wine, seal and soak for 15 days before drinking. Take twice a day, 10-20ml each time.
Effect: Tonify kidney yang, nourish kidney and consolidate essence. Suitable for kidney yang deficiency, weak fire in the gate of vitality, fatigue, dizziness and tinnitus, aversion to cold and cold limbs, lumbago and knee softness, and bone and joint pain.
7. Mu Xiang Tang
Ingredients: 1 male and 1 female sea horses, 30g costus root, 60g stir-fried rhubarb, 60g stir-fried white leadwort root, 49 pieces of buckthorn, 60g immature tangerine peel.
Method: Soak costus root, rhubarb, and white leadwort root in child's urine, wrap them around buckthorn, and soak them in child's urine for 7 days. Take out and stir-fry with bran until yellow. Discard the buckthorn and grind the immature tangerine peel into powder (also grind sea horse into powder). Take 6g of this powder with water once a day before bedtime. This formula treats long-term accumulation of deficiency and excess.
8. Sea Horse Young Chicken
Ingredients: 1 young chicken, 10g sea horse, 100g shrimp, cooking wine, salt, monosodium glutamate, green onion, ginger, etc.
Method: Remove feathers and internal organs from the young chicken, put it in a steaming bowl, place the shrimp around the chicken, add green onion, ginger, cooking wine, salt, and monosodium glutamate, steam until cooked. Eat the chicken meat, shrimp, and drink the soup.
Effect: Tonify essence and qi, warm the middle and strengthen yang. Suitable for qi deficiency, yang deficiency, weak constitution, fatigue and aversion to cold.
Note: Sea horse has a sweet and warm taste, which tonifies the kidneys and strengthens yang, regulates qi, and activates blood circulation. Shrimp meat tonifies the kidneys and strengthens yang. Young chicken nourishes qi and essence. The combination of these three ingredients not only has a tender and delicious taste, fragrant aroma, and rich nutrition but also has a good effect on warming the kidneys, strengthening yang, and tonifying deficiency. It is a good supplement for those with kidney yang deficiency and weak constitution.
