Mantis Egg Shell Powder

Mantis Egg Shell Powder

Mantidis Ootheca (Sang Piao Xiao) 1 liang (30g), Polygalae Radix (Yuan Zhi) 1 liang (30g), Acori Tatarinowii Rhizoma(Chang Pu) 1 liang (30g), Draconis Os (Long Gu) 1 liang (30g), Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma (Ren Shen) 1 liang (30g), Poria (Fu Shen) 1 liang (30g), Angelicae Sinensis Radix (Dang Gui) 1 liang (30g), Testudinis Carapax et Plastrum (Gui Jia) 1 liang (30g)

Grind all the medicinals into a fine powder. 6g of the powder constitutes a single dose. Swallow the powder with a decoction of ren shen before bed. This formula can also be prepared as a decoction and taken before bed by adjusting the medicinals quantities based on the original ratios.

Harmonizes and supplements the heart and the kidney, consolidates essence and arrests emission and urination.

Sang Piao Xiao San is indicated for a pattern of both heart and kidney deficiency. Signs and symptoms include frequent urination, turbid urine, enuresis, spontaneous seminal emission, absent-mindedness, poor memory, a pale tongue with white coating and a thready, thin pulse.

This pattern is caused by deficiency of both the heart and kidney and failure of the water and fire to interact. The kidney governs water and stores the essence. Therefore, when the essence is not contained due to kidney deficiency and the bladder fails to ensure retention, problems such as frequent urination and enuresis occur. When the essence is not stored and controlled properly due to kidney deficiency, disorders involving seminal emission, spontaneous seminal emission, or turbid colored urine will manifest. The consumption of kidney essence leads to kidney qi deficiency and fails to move upward and interact with the heart. This leads to heart deficiency. Together, these two circumstances cause malnourishment of the spirit and symptoms such as poor memory and forgetfulness. If this is not corrected in time, it will eventually impair the body’s essence, blood, and original qi. This type of deficiency is observed by a pale tongue body, a white tongue coating, and a deficient, weak pulse. The treatment is to harmonize and supplement the heart and kidney, consolidate essence, and arrest emission and urination.

1. Essential pattern differentiation Sang Piao Xiao San is commonly used to treat deficiency of the heart and kidney. This clinical pattern is marked by frequent urination or enuresis, absent-mindedness, pale tongue with white coating, thready and weak pulse. 2. Modern applications This formula may be used in the following biomedically defined disorders when the patient shows signs of a heart and kidney deficiency pattern: pediatric frequent urination or enuresis, diabetes mellitus, and neurasthenia. 3. Cautions and contraindications It is not applicable for frequent urination, enuresis, seminal emission, or premature ejaculation caused by damp-heat accumulation in the lower jiao, or frenetic stirring of ministerial fire.

Suo Quan Wan (Stream-Reducing Pill 縮泉丸)

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