Slippery pulse.
Kang Ning Wan
(Health and Quiet Pill)
Tian Ma Phizoma Gastrodiae elatae
Bai Zhi Radix Angelicae dahuricae
Ju Hua Flos Chrysanthemi morifolii
Bo He Herba Menthae
Ge Gen Radix Puerariae
Tian Hua Fen Radix Trichosanthis
Cang Zhu Rhizoma Atractylodis lanceae
Yi Yi Ren Semen Coicis lachryma jobi
Fu Ling Sclerotium Poriae cocos
Mu Xiang Radix Saussureae
Hou Po Cortex Magnoliae officinalis
Chen Pi Pericarpium Citri reticulatae
Shen Qu Massa Fermentata Medicinalis
Huo Xiang Herba Agastachis
Gu Ya Fructus Oryzae sativae germinatusExplanation
This well-known remedy is also for invasion of Cold and Dampness with such symptoms as a
feeling of heaviness, pain, and oppression of the epigastrium, nausea, vomiting, headache and a
sticky tongue coating which could be white or yellow. The pulse presentation for the use of this
remedy is a pulse which is Slippery and slightly Wiry.
This remedy differs from the previous one in so far as it is more for epigastric pain than
Dampness and it also treats a headache from exterior Cold-Dampness.
Dietary Advice
In invasions of external Cold to the Stomach it is best to avoid cold foods such as salads and fruit
and, most of all, iced drinks.
Retention of Food
Clinical Manifestations
Dull epigastric pain which is worse with pressure, feeling of distension and fullness, belching,
sour regurgitation, foul breath, vomiting of undigested food, epigastric pain relieved after
vomiting, loose stools or constipation.