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Bao He Wan - Preserve Harmony Pills

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Clinical Usage

  • Epigastric and or abdominal fullness or painful distention after meals.
  • Acid reflux, belching, vomiting with possible aversion to food due to food stagnation.
  • This formula can also be used for acute food poisoning.

Functional Categories

Reduce Food Stagnation

Clinician Notes

For food stagnation/indigestion and overeating. In this context overeating does not necessarily mean eating large meals or overindulgence rather it refers to eating in excess of what your spleen and stomach systems are able to process.  Poor eating habits such as large fluctuations in meal size, inconsistent eating schedule, eating very poor quality foods, and eating too many types of foods at once can all lead to food stagnation.  Additionally food stagnation may result from a deficiency of the spleen and stomach systems due to their inability to break down and convert food.  This formula can be used both for chronic food stagnation due to deficiency and for acute stagnation due to overindulgence.

Formula Combinations

Cautions & Precautions

Use with caution with weak or qi deficient patients.

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Bao He Wan is in "Reduce Food Stagnation" category.

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Common Formula Ingredients

Bao He Wan is generally comprised of the following 7 ingredients:

Ban Xia
Ban Xia
Pinellia Rhizome
  • Dries dampness, transforms cold-phlegm, descends rebellious qi - cough with copious sputum especially due to dampness of spleen.
  • Harmonizes stomach, stops vomiting due to lingering phlegm-dampness in the stomach.
  • Dissipates nodules, reduces distension - phlegm in chest or neck or anywhere in the body, focal distention in the chest.
Ban Xia is also included in 15 formulas
Chen Pi
Tangerine Peel
  • Regulates Qi, improves transportive function of the spleen, relieves diaphragm - epigastric/abdominal distention, fullness, bloating, belching, nausea, vomiting (promotes movement of qi in general; specifically directing it downward - good for different types of nausea/vomiting).
  • Important herb for drying dampness and the transformation of phlegm - coughs with stifling sensation in the chest/diaphragm, and copious viscous sputum (qi-level herb).
  • Prevents stagnation - prevents cloying of tonifying herbs.
  • Ju Hong is the red part of the tangerine peel - it is more drying and aromatic.
Chen Pi is also included in 27 formulas
Fu Ling
Fu Ling
Poria, China Root
  • 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.
Fu Ling is also included in 52 formulas
Lai Fu Zi
Radish/Turnip Seeds
  • Reduces food stagnation, transforms accumulations - distention, belching with a rotten smell, acid regurgitation.
  • Descends lung qi, reduces phlegm - chronic cough or wheezing due to excess syndromes.
Lai Fu Zi is also included in 1 formula
Lian Qiao
Lian Qiao
Forsythia Fruit
  • Clear heat and toxins, dissipates nodules - carbuncles and hot sores, neck lumps.
  • Expel wind-heat - fever, slight chills, sore throat, headache.
Lian Qiao is also included in 10 formulas
Shan Zha
Shan Zha
Hawthorn Fruit
  • Reduces and moves food stagnation outward - accumulation of meat and/or greasy foods with distention, pain, diarrhea.
  • Transforms blood stasis, dissipates clumps - post-partum abdominal pain, hernial disorder.
  • Stops diarrhea (when partially charred).
  • Hypertension.
Shan Zha is also included in 4 formulas
Shen Qu
Shen Qu
Medicated Leaven
  • Reduces food stagnation, strengthens stomach - stomach cold with food stagnation or accumulation, with epigastric and abdominal fullness or distention, lack of appetite, borborygmus, and diarrhea.
  • Aids in mineral digestion and absorption.
Shen Qu is also included in 6 formulas