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Names Of Sang Piao Xiao Wan

Sang Piao Xiao Wan TCM Herbal Formula

English Name: Mantis Egg Case Powder
Pinyin Name: Sang Piao Xiao Wan
Alternate Names: Sang Piao Xiao San, Mantis Formula
Chinese Character: 桑螵蛸散

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How Is Sang Piao Xiao Wan Categorized?

Sang Piao Xiao Wan Functional Groupings

Primary Category: Stabilize and Bind
Subcategory: Stabilize the Kidneys

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Sub Categories Within The Stabilize and Bind Category

Restrain Leakage from the Intestines Stabilize the Exterior and the Lungs Stabilize the Kidneys Stabilize the Womb

There Are 4 Formulas In Our Stabilize and Bind Category

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How Is Sang Piao Xiao Wan Used Clinically?

Sang Piao Xiao Wan Usages and Indications

Frequent urination, possibly incontinent from weakness in the heart and kidney systems. Pang Guang Shi Yue (bladder losing restraint).
Other kidney deficiency signs possible such as spermatorrhea, forgetfulness, fatigue, constipation...
Bedwetting in children when it is from deficiency - and often associated with "kidney" issues such as fear.

Cautions and Contraindications

Only use in with cases of deficiency, damp-heat or excess fire should be treated via other formulas.

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Conditions and Patterns Potentially Related With Sang Piao Xiao Wan

Sang Piao Xiao Wan Related Conditions and Patterns

Bedwetting Diabetes Type II Frequent Urination Prostate Issues (BPH)Spermatorrhea

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Heart Qi Deficiency Kidney Qi Deficiency

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What Are Some Common Combinations For Sang Piao Xiao Wan?

Clinical Formula Combinations and Modifications

In diabetes with more kidney yin deficiency signs - liu wei di huang wan.

Sang Piao Xiao Wan Has 9Ingredients

Ren Shen

Ginseng Root

Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Qi category

Usages

Strongly tonify yuan qi - extreme collapse of qi, shortness of breath, cold limbs, profuse sweating, weak pulse (often used alone for this condition after severe blood loss).
Tonify lung qi - wheezing, shortness of breath, w/kidneys failing to grasp the qi.
Strengthen the middle warmer - lethargy, no appetite, chronic diarrhea, prolapse of organs, distended chest/abdomen.
Generates fluids, stops thirst - xiao ke, damaged fluid due to high dever and profuse sweating.
Benefits heart qi, calms the spirit - palpitations, anxiety, insomnia, poor memory, restlessness due to qi and/or blood deficiency.

This formula has cautions, see details

Fu Ling

Poria, China Root

Appears in the Herbs That Drain Dampness category

Usages

Promotes urination, drains dampness, transforms phlegm - urinary difficulty, diarrhea, edema, headache, dizziness, greasy tongue coat.
Strengthens the spleen, harmonizes the middle jiao - diarrhea, loss of appetite.
Quiets the heart and calms the spirit - palpitations, insomnia, forgetfulness.

This formula has cautions, see details

Yuan Zhi

Senega Root

Appears in the Herbs That Nourish The Heart and Calm The Spirit category

Usages

Calms the spirit, quiets the heart - insomnia, palpitations, anxiety, restlessness.
Expels phlegm from the lungs, clears the heart orifices - copious sputum, mental confusion, seizures.
Reduces abscesses, dissipate swellings - boils, sores, painful breasts.

Shi Chang Pu

Sweetflag Rhizome

Appears in the Herbs That Open Orifices category

Usages

Opens the orifices, vaporizes phlegm, quiets the spirit - sensory orifice disorders due to phlegm, deafness, dizziness, poor memory, dulled sensation, seizures.
Harmonize the middle warmer, transform turbid damp, abdominal pain.
Wind-cold damp - painful obstruction, trauma and sores.

Sang Piao Xiao

Ootheca Mantidis

Appears in the Herbs That Stabilize and Bind category

Usages

Tonify the kidneys, consolidate jing and restrain urine - frequent urination and other kidney deficiency.
Binds the intestines - stops diarrhea and dysentery.

Sang Bai Pi

Mulberry Root Bark

Appears in the Herbs That Relieve Coughing and Wheezing category

Usages

Drains lung heat - cough, wheezing.
Promotes urination, reduces edema - lung heat obstructing downward movement of lung qi, preventing water from moving - no sweating, facial and floating edema, fever, thirst, difficult urination.
Recently for hypertension.

Long Gu

Fossilized Bones

Appears in the Herbs That Anchor, Settle and Calm The Spirit category

Usages

Calms the spirit - emotional distress, insomnia, palpitations, anxiety, seizures.
Calms the liver, anchors floating yang - irritable, blurred vision, vertigo, bad temper.
Prevents leakage of fluids due to deficiency - spermatorrhea, night sweats, spontaneous sweating, vaginal discharge, nocturnal emissions, uterine bleeding.
Topically for chronic non-healing sores and ulcerations.

Gui Ban

Fresh Water Turtle Shell

Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Yin category

Usages

Nourish yin, anchor yang - yin deficiency with ascending yang, night sweats, dizziness, tinnitus, steaming bone disorder.
Liver and kidney yin deficiency - internal wind symptoms, facial spasms, hand and feet tremors.
Benefits kidneys, strengthens bone - sore back, weak legs, slow skeletal growth in children.
Cools the blood - stops uterine bleeding due to heat in the blood, excessive menses.
Tonify blood, nourish the heart, calm the heart - anxiety, insomnia.

Dang Gui

Chinese Angelica Root

Appears in the Herbs That Tonify Blood category

Usages

Tonifies the blood, regulates menses - pallid, ashen complexion, tinnitus, blurred vision, palpitations, irregular menses, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea.
Invigorates/harmonizes the blood, disperses cold - important herb to stop pain due to blood stasis - abdominal pain, trauma, carbuncles due to blood stasis, chronic bi.
Moistens dry intestines due to blood deficiency.
Reduces swellings, expels pus, generates flesh - sores.

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