Baihe Gujin Wan

Baihe Gujin Wan (Chinese: 百合固金丸, pinyin: bǎihégù jīnwán ) is a blackish-brown honeyed pill used in Traditional Chinese medicine to "nourish yin of the lung, resolve phlegm and relieve cough". [1] It is used when there is "deficiency of yin of the lung and the kidney marked by dry cough, scanty expectoration, bloody sputum, dryness and pain in the throat". Honey is added as a binding agent to make the pill.


Chinese classic herbal formula

Name Chinese (S) Grams
Bulbus Lilii 百合 100
Radix Rehmanniae 生地黄 200
Radix Rehmanniae Preparata 熟地黄 300
Radix Ophiopogonis 麦冬 150
Radix Scrophulariae 玄参 80
Bulbus fritillariae cirrhosae 川贝母 100
Radix Angelicae Sinensis 当归 100
Radix Paeoniae Alba 白芍 100
Radix Platycodonis 桔梗 80
Radix Glycyrrhizae 甘草 100

See also

References

  1. State Pharmacopoeia Commission of the PRC (2005). "Pharmacopoeia of The People's Republic of China (Volume I)". Chemical Industry Press. ISBN 7-117-06982-1.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 6/1/2012. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.