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
How Is Sang Piao Xiao Wan Categorized?
Sang Piao Xiao Wan Functional Groupings
- Primary Category: Stabilize and Bind
- Subcategory: Stabilize the Kidneys
Sub Categories Within The Stabilize and Bind Category
Restrain Leakage from the IntestinesStabilize the Exterior and the LungsStabilize the KidneysStabilize the Womb
There Are 4 Formulas In Our Stabilize and Bind Category
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.
Conditions and Patterns Potentially Related With Sang Piao Xiao Wan

Sang Piao Xiao Wan Related Conditions and Patterns
BedwettingDiabetes Type IIFrequent UrinationProstate Issues (BPH)Spermatorrhea
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Heart Qi DeficiencyKidney 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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