title: Shengmai Wan
text: # Shengmai Wan
  
  Shengmai Wan (simplified Chinese: 生脉丸; traditional Chinese: 生脈丸) is a brown pill used in Traditional Chinese medicine to "replenish qi, restore normal pulse, nourish yin and promote the production of body fluids". It is aromatic and tastes sour, sweet and slightly bitter. It is used where there is "deficiency of qi and yin marked by cardiac palpitation, shortness of breath, scarcely perceptible pulse and spontaneous sweating".
  
  ## Chinese classic herbal formula
  
  | Name | Chinese (S) | Grams |
  | - | - | - |
  | Radix Ginseng | 人参 | 100 |
  | Radix Ophiopogonis | 麦冬 | 200 |
  | Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis seu Fructus Schisandrae Sphenantherae | 五味子 | 100 |
  