Guipi Wan () 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".State Pharmacopoeia Commission of the PRC (2005). "Pharmacopoeia of The People's Republic of China (Volume I)". Chemical Industry Press. .
Chinese classic herbal formula of Guipi Wan
NameChinese (S)GramsRadix 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 Chinese classic herbal formula Bu Zhong Yi Qi Wan
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