Qi tonics
Sheng mai san
Generate the Pulse Powder
- Chinese name
- 生脉散
- Group
- Qi tonics
- English name
- Generate the Pulse Powder
- Basic formula
- ✓
Strengthens qi, nourishes yin and curbs excessive sweating.
Indications
Counters the effects of a hot climate, promotes body fluids and quenches thirst: for exhaustion and fatigue with shortness of breath, heavy sweating and thirst. Also for chronic cough and general weakness of the lungs. The book also mentions heart weakness, angina pectoris, arrhythmias, heart attack and stroke.
Ingredients
| Ingredients | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ginseng (ren shen) | 6–9 g |
| Mai men dong (ophiopogon) | 6–9 g |
| Schisandra (wu wei zi) | 6–9 g |
- Tongue
- little or no coating, pale, possibly with a red tip
- Pulse
- thin and thready