Sha Shen Mai Dong ShaShenMaiDong Glehnia and Ophiopogonis Decoction 沙参麦冬玩 Sha Shen Mai Dong Tang, Adenophora and Ophiopogon Combination sha shen mai dong glehnia and ophiopogonis decoction

Sha Shen Mai Dong Wan - Glehnia and Ophiopogonis Decoction

沙参麦冬玩

Also known as: Sha Shen Mai Dong Tang, Adenophora and Ophiopogon Combination

Clinical Usage

  • Important formula for stomach yin deficiency - benefits the stomach and the lungs - a range of digestive issues (gastritis, epigastric pain), possibly with dry throat, thirst and/or cough.
  • Diabetes - particularly with signs of dryness.
  • A range of lung related issues - lung cancer, pneumonia, cough/wheezing.
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Sha Shen Mai Dong Wan is in the "Gently Disperse and Moisten Dryness" group within the "Treat Dryness" category.

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Common Formula Ingredients

Sha Shen Mai Dong Wan is generally comprised of the following 7 ingredients:

Bai Bian Dou
Bai Bian Dou
Hyacinth Bean
  • Clears summerheat - especially with pronounced diarrhea or vomiting.
  • Strengthens the spleen - chronic diarrhea, vaginal discharge due to spleen deficiency.
Bai Bian Dou is also included in 1 formula
Gan Cao
Gan Cao
Licorice Root
  • Tonifies the spleen and augments qi - spleen deficiency w/shortness of breath, fatigue, loose stools (si jun zi tong).
  • Qi and/or blood deficiency w/irregular pluse or palpitations (Zhi Gan Cao Tang).
  • Moistens the lungs and stops cough - heat/cold in the lungs (Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang).
  • Clears heat and toxic fire (raw) - carbuncles, sores, sore throat due to fire toxin (internally or topically).
  • Alleviates pain and stops spasms - abdomen or legs (Shao Yao Gan Cao Tang).
  • Often used to harmonize and/or moderate characteristics of other herbs.
  • Antidote for toxic substances (internally and topically).
Gan Cao is also included in 62 formulas
Mai Men Dong
Mai Men Dong
Ophiopogon Tuber
  • Moistens the lungs, stops cough - dry cough, coughing blood.
  • Augments stomach yin, generates fluids - dry tongue and mouth.
  • Clears heat and eliminates irritability due to yin deficiency or a warm-febrile disease in the ying level - particularly when symptoms are worse at night.
  • Moistens the intestines - constipation.
Mai Men Dong is also included in 13 formulas
Sang Ye
Sang Ye
White Mulberry Leaf
  • Expels wind, clears lung heat - wind-heat with fever, headache, sore throat; also for lung dryness causing dry mouth, dry cough, lung heat with thick and yellow sputum.
  • Cools liver and clears the eyes - liver channel eye problems due to wind-heat or yin deficiency, red, sore, dry or painful eyes, floaters.
  • Cools the blood and stops bleeding - mild cases of vomiting blood due to heat in the blood.
Sang Ye is also included in 1 formula
Sha Shen
Sha Shen
Glehnia Root
  • Moistens the lungs, stops cough - dry, non-productive cough due to lung yin deficiency.
  • Nourish the stomach, generate fluids, clear heat (after febrile disease or yin deficiency) - dry mouth or throat.
  • Moisten the exterior - dry itchy skin aggravated by cold and dry weather.
Sha Shen is also included in 1 formula
Tian Hua Fen
Trichosanthes Root
  • Clears and drains lung heat, transforms phlegm, moistens lung dryness.
  • Drains heat, generates fluid (fluids injured) - thirst, irritability, wasting and thirsting disorder, cough, thick sputum.
  • Relieves toxicity, expels pus - toxic hot carbuncles, breast abscess.
Tian Hua Fen is also included in 6 formulas
Yu Zhu
Yu Zhu
Solomon's Seal Rhizome, Polygonatum
  • Nourish yin, moisten dryness - lung and stomach dry heat or yin deficiency patterns with cough, dry throat, thirst, irritability, steaming bone disorder, xiao ke, excess hunger, constipation.
  • Clear wind, softens and moistens the sinews - wind generated by insufficient fluids, leading to pain and spasms in the sinews, dizziness from yin deficiency and internal movement of wind.
  • Also useful for wind-heat in yin deficient constitution (not cloying herb).