For a warm phase
Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan 6 Pack
6 bottles · 360 tablets · about 60 days at 6 a day
Six bottles of Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan, sixty days at six a day. Herbalists saw it as a formula for a phase, while Yin runs low and empty heat flares, so this pack covers that stretch with time to check in as things cool. Why take it over weeks
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Turning the flame down, then checking in
Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan has a slightly different rhythm from most rehmannia formulas. The six Liu Wei herbs top up the coolant, as it were, and that side of things is slow. Anemarrhena and phellodendron, though, are bitter and cold, and herbalists didn't want them running on and on after the heat had gone. So the traditional pattern was a few weeks while warm evenings, hot palms and soles and a dry throat were obvious, then a look at whether the fire had died down. Sixty days gives that phase room without drifting into forever.
If by the end you feel dry and tired rather than hot, that's usually the cue herbalists took to move across to plain Liu Wei Di Huang Wan. And if the heat's still clearly there after two months, it's worth a chat with a practitioner, or your GP if anything's new.
10 days a bottle, about 60 days in all
Sixty days with the heat turned down
Bottles 1–2
Days 1 to 20
Three morning, three evening, with food. It's a cold formula, so if your digestion goes loose or you start feeling chilly, stop and have a rethink.
Bottles 3–4
Days 21 to 40
Notice the evenings. That's where herbalists looked, really. Does the warmth sneak up on you after about four? Night sweats? Lying there wired when you ought to be dropping off?
Bottles 5–6
Days 41 to 60
Right, where are we? Still clearly hot? Some carry on a while. Cooler but dry? Liu Wei is the traditional next step. And if something's still bothering you, pop in and see your GP.
There's tree peony bark in here, and that's always been handled carefully in pregnancy. So, pregnant? Breastfeeding? On regular medicine? Have a word with your GP or pharmacist before you start, we'd rather you did. It's a cold formula, too, and not a good fit if you're always chilly or your digestion's easily upset.
Choosing between them
Its closest relatives in the rehmannia family
Most of our rehmannia formulas start from the same six herbs and then head off in different directions. These two sit nearest to Zhi Bai.
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Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan
Liu Wei plus anemarrhena and phellodendron. For Kidney Yin running low with obvious empty heat: warm evenings, hot palms and soles, a red tongue. Noticeably cool, usually taken for a phase.
Built for midlife
Geng Nian An
A modern formula made with women in the change in mind. Also Yin with heat, but it adds calming herbs like gambir vine and fleeceflower stem, so it leans towards restless, unsettled evenings.
See Geng Nian AnDry, not hot
Mai Wei Di Huang Wan
Liu Wei plus ophiopogon and schisandra. Picked when dryness from low Kidney Yin seemed to reach up to the Lungs, without the flaring heat that calls for Zhi Bai.
See Mai Wei Di Huang WanWhat's in the box
Six bottles of Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan
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.
| Di Huang Rehmannia glutinosa | 942mg |
| Zhi Mu Anemarrhena asphodeloides | 236mg |
| Huang Bo Phellodendron chinense | 236mg |
| Shan Zhu Yu Cornus officinalis | 472mg |
| Shan Yao Dioscorea oppositifolia | 472mg |
| Ze Xie Alisma plantago-aquatica | 336mg |
| Mu Dan Pi Paeonia suffruticosa | 336mg |
| Fu Ling Wolfiporia hoelen | 336mg |
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.
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What people say about Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan
Great for reducing hot flashes and night sweats
Indre T., verified buyerThese two medicines together have helped me to ease some side effects of other medications I have to take for arthritis.
Carmela C., verified buyerGreat product, feeling good using it and blood pressure is under control.
Thikra D., verified buyerZhi Bai Di Huang Wan: your questions
Is Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan taken around the menopause?
Historically it's been popular with women heading into the change, when Chinese medicine sees Yin starting to wane, and it comes up a lot in conversations about hot flushes and night sweats. It isn't a treatment for menopause symptoms, though. New, heavy or irregular bleeding, or symptoms that are hard to live with, should go to your GP.
Did men take it too?
Yes, plenty. The Kidney Yin and empty heat pattern isn't tied to one sex, and herbalists used it for men who ran hot and dry, often in middle age or after years of long hours and late nights. Midlife women just happen to be the group it's best known with today.
What did herbalists watch for over the weeks?
Two things pulling in opposite directions. On one side, whether the evening warmth, hot palms and soles and night sweats were easing. And then the flip side. Were those cold herbs going too far? Runny tummy, feeling chilly, not much interest in food. If that lot showed up, it was time to stop, or swap to something gentler, frankly.
Anything I should change day to day while I'm on Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan?
Honestly? Ease off the late nights. Bed a bit earlier. Phone down at night, and maybe don't pick a row at eleven pm. Herbalists also reckoned chilli, booze, strong coffee and fried food just fanned the flames, so they'd tell you to go easy. Cooling, moist foods like pears and soups were the traditional sort of thing.
Is the six-pack the same formula as the single bottle?
Yes, the same eight herbs in the same tablets, just six bottles packed together. At three in the morning and three in the evening, each bottle lasts ten days, so the pack covers sixty days, which is about the length of the 'warm phase' herbalists had in mind.
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