Shengmai Wan Explained

Shengmai Wan is a brown pill used in Traditional Chinese medicine to "replenish qi, restore normal pulse, nourish yin and promote the production of body fluids".^[1] It is aromatic and tastes sour, sweet and slightly bitter. It is used where there is "deficiency of qi and yin marked by cardiac palpitation, shortness of breath, scarcely perceptible pulse and spontaneous sweating".^[2]

Chinese classic herbal formula

Name	Chinese (S)	Grams
Radix Ginseng	人参	100
Radix Ophiopogonis	麦冬	200
Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis seu Fructus Schisandrae Sphenantherae	五味子	100

See also

• Chinese classic herbal formula
• Bu Zhong Yi Qi Wan

Notes and References

1. State Pharmacopoeia Commission of the PRC (2005). "Pharmacopoeia of The People's Republic of China (Volume I)". Chemical Industry Press. .
2. Zuo Yanfu, Zhu Zhongbao, Huang Yuezhong, Tao Jinweng, Li Zhaoguo. "Science of Prescriptions", Publishing House of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. 2002. .