Through the cold months
Du Huo Ji Sheng Tang 6 Pack
6 bottles · 360 tablets · about 60 days at 6 a day
Du Huo Ji Sheng Tang was written for a cold, stiff ache that had settled in for years. Six bottles give you sixty days, a sensible run through the damp, chilly end of a British year. Why take it over weeks
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A long-standing ache, met with patience
Sun Simiao wasn't writing for a twinge after gardening. He had in mind someone whose back and knees had been cold and stiff for so long that it had worn down their deeper reserves. In the jargon that's long-standing Bi with Liver and Kidney deficiency. Years in the making. So a fortnight? Nobody was daft enough to expect much from that. Herbalists gave it a proper run, often right through the coldest months, and the test was dead ordinary stuff (how the knees were on a wet morning, say, or how you got on standing up out of your armchair).
It builds as well as clears, so it's a big one. Fourteen herbs! Rehmannia's in there, and a good whack of bitter gentian. If your stomach's on the fussy side, have it after food, honestly, and the weeks go a lot easier.
10 days a bottle, about 60 days in all
Sixty days through the damp season
Bottles 1–2
Days 1 to 20
Three after breakfast, three after tea. And wrap up! What's the use warming you from the inside, herbalists would say, if you're stood out in the drizzle?
Bottles 3–4
Days 21 to 40
How are the back and knees taking the weather? Cold mornings especially. A gentle potter about every day was always part of it, too.
Bottles 5–6
Days 41 to 60
Have a think back. Joint gone hot, red, swollen? Back worse, or pain running down a leg? Then it's your GP you want, not more tablets.
Pregnant? Then Du Huo Ji Sheng Tang's not for you, sorry, as achyranthes has always been kept away from pregnancy. Breastfeeding, ask your GP. On warfarin? The dong quai and lovage won't get on with it, and liquorice can push blood pressure up. Anything you take regularly, have a word with your GP or pharmacist first.
Choosing between them
Cold, hot or simply weak?
Aura has a few formulas herbalists used for stiff backs and knees. The old question was whether the ache felt cold, hot or just worn out.
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Du Huo Ji Sheng Tang
Cold, damp, stiff back and knees, in someone who's run down underneath it all. Rain makes it worse; a hot water bottle, better. Clears and builds in one go.
When joints feel warm
Guan Jie Yan Wan
The opposite temperature. Picked when Wind, Damp and Heat seemed lodged in the joints, so they felt heavy, stiff and a bit warm to the touch.
See Guan Jie Yan WanInner fire burning low
Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan
Kidney Yang deficiency. For the one who's always freezing, back, knees and feet, and who's slowing down all over. Less achy joints, more pilot light gone low.
See Jin Gui Shen Qi WanWhat's in the box
Six bottles of Du Huo Ji Sheng Tang
Every bottle is the same: 60 tablets of the formula on our single bottle page, so 6 a day gives you 10 days a bottle.
| Du Huo Angelica biserrata | 304mg |
| Fang Feng Saposhnikovia divaricata | 236mg |
| Long Dan Cao Gentiana scabra | 235mg |
| Rou Gui Neolitsea cassia | 235mg |
| Du Zhong Eucommia ulmoides | 236mg |
| Niu Xi Achyranthes bidentata | 235mg |
| Shu Di Huang Rehmannia glutinosa | 236mg |
| Dang Gui Angelica sinensis | 235mg |
| Bai Shao Paeonia lactiflora | 235mg |
| Chuan Xiong Conioselinum anthriscoides | 236mg |
| Ren Shen Panax ginseng | 236mg |
| Huang Qi Astragalus mongholicus | 236mg |
| Fu Ling Wolfiporia hoelen | 235mg |
| Gan Cao Glycyrrhiza glabra | 236mg |
Also contains: Cassava starch, Hypromellose, Magnesium stearate, Polyethylene glycol, Talc.
Living with six bottles
The practical bits
Storing them
Somewhere cool and dry, out of direct sun. Leave the bottles you're not using sealed until you need them.
Best before
Every bottle carries its own best-before date on the label, so check the one you open next.
Delivery
Order before 3pm on a weekday and it goes out the same day from Essex. UK delivery is free on orders over £40.
Changed your mind?
Sealed, unopened bottles can be returned within 14 days of delivery. The details are in our refund policy.
Verified Loox reviews
What people say about Du Huo Ji Sheng Tang
It’s working well slowly. Seen an improvement in my condition.
Lionel S., verified buyerI've been taking Shen Tong for years and years and it helps my overall health.
Ms D., verified buyerI bought 3 bottles and after I completed my first bottle, I could feel slight improvement to my arthritis. Will continue with the other 2 and hopefully, this will be the solution to help me maintain my condition. I’m looking to…
Lionel S., verified buyerDu Huo Ji Sheng Tang: your questions
My knees creak. Is Du Huo Ji Sheng Tang the arthritis one?
Its name does pop up whenever osteoarthritis gets mentioned, mostly among older folk whose knees and backs can tell you it's going to rain. Historically that's just the kind of person herbalists gave it to. It isn't a treatment for arthritis, though. Persistent joint pain deserves a GP's assessment, and a joint that's suddenly hot, red and swollen needs seeing the same day.
Is winter the best time to take it?
Many herbalists thought so. Cold and damp were the outside influences Sun Simiao wrote about, and British winters supply plenty of both, so it's often brought out once the clocks go back. Some people who feel the change in the weather also start it in autumn, before the worst of it. You can take it any time, mind. Winter's just its home turf.
And how long would a herbalist have kept you on Du Huo Ji Sheng Tang?
Weeks. Months, often. Well, the ache had been there for years, hadn't it? A practitioner would keep popping back to tweak things, maybe winding it down once spring warmed up. Nobody thought of it as a quick fix. A couple of months was a pretty normal first go, and then you'd decide.
Could I have it with Yao Tong Pian as well?
We wouldn't double up, not unless a practitioner tells you to. They're both warming lower-back formulas, both have dong quai, so there's a lot of overlap. Herbalists picked one. This for cold, damp stiffness; Yao Tong Pian when the back felt weak and tired more than cold. Which sounds like you?
Sixty days from a 6-pack, is that right?
Yep, sixty. Six 60-tablet bottles of the same fourteen herbs as the single, three tablets morning and evening, ten days a bottle. Call it two months. For most people that's first proper frost to, oh, somewhere near the back end of winter.
Du Huo Ji Sheng Tang, six bottles at once
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