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Guipi Wan

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Guipi Wan (simplified Chinese: 归脾丸; traditional Chinese: 歸脾丸) is a brown honeyed pill used in Traditional Chinese medicine to "invigorate the spleen function, nourish blood and cause sedation". It has a slight odor, and tastes sweet, and then slightly bitter and pungent. It is used where there is "deficiency syndrome of both the heart and the spleen marked by shortness of breath, cardiac palpitation, insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep, dizziness, lassitude, anorexia, excessive menstrual discharge or hematochezia".[1]

Chinese classic herbal formula of Guipi Wan

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Name Chinese (S) Grams
Radix Codonopsis 党参 80
Rhizoma-Atractylodis Macrocephalae (stir-baked) 白术(炒) 160
Radix Astragali Preparata 炙黄芪 80
Radix Glycyrrhizae Preparata 炙甘草 40
Poria 茯苓 160
Radix Polygalae (processed) 远志(制) 160
Semen Ziziphi Spinosae (stir-baked) 酸枣仁(炒) 80
Arillus Longan 龙眼肉 160
Radix Angelicae Sinensis 当归 160
Radix Aucklandiae 木香 40
Fructus Jujubae (cored) 大枣 40

See also

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References

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  1. ^ State Pharmacopoeia Commission of the PRC (2005). "Pharmacopoeia of The People's Republic of China (Volume I)". Chemical Industry Press. ISBN 7-117-06982-1.