Guipi Wan Explained

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".[1]

Chinese classic herbal formula of Guipi Wan

NameChinese (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

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Notes and References

  1. State Pharmacopoeia Commission of the PRC (2005). "Pharmacopoeia of The People's Republic of China (Volume I)". Chemical Industry Press. .