HERB FORMULAS

SANG PIAO XIAO SAN - 桑螵蛸散 - MANTIS-EGG CASE POWDER

English: Mantis-Egg Case Powder
Also Known As: Mantis Formula

HERBS AND ACTIONS

Pharmaceutical Latin
Pin Yin
Dosage
Actions
Ootheca Mantidis Sang Piao Xiao 9-30g Tonifies the Kidneys, assists Yang, retains Jing and astringes urine.
With Long Gu, Gui Ban, Yuan Zhi and Fu Shen, for spermatorrhea and nocturnal emissions due to Heart and Kidney Deficiency.
Fossilia Ossis Mastodi Long Gu 15-30g Settles anxiety, calms the Spirit and prevents leakage of fluids.
With Sang Piao Xiao, powerfully astringes and tonifies for enuresis, urinary frequency, premature ejaculation, nocturnal emissions and vaginal discharge due to unstable Kidney Yang.
With Sang Piao Xiao and Gui Ban, for urinary frequency and incontinence due to Heart and Kidney Deficiency.
With Shi Chang Pu and Yuan Zhi, for a restless Shen.
Vinegar-fried Plastrum Testudinis Cu Chao Gui Ban 15-30g Nourishes Yin and anchors Yang with an enhanced ability to subdue Yang. Benefits the Kidneys, nourishes the Blood, enriches Yin, stabilizes the Chong and Ren channels and tonifies the Heart.
Rx. Ginseng Ren Shen 9-30g Powerfully tonifies Yuan Qi, tonifies Heart Qi, calms the Spirit and treats impotence.
Rx. Angelicae Sinensis Dang Gui 9-30g Tonifies, invigorates and harmonizes the Blood, disperses Cold and stops pain due to Blood Stasis.
Rx. Polygalae Yuan Zhi 6-30g Calms the Spirit, sedates the Heart and clears the channel joining the Heart and Kidney.
Rz. Acori Tatarinowii Shi Chang Pu 6-30g Opens the Orifices, vaporizes Phlegm, removes filth and calms the Spirit.
With Ren Shen, Fu Shen and Yuan Zhi, for forgetfulness and dulled senses.
Poria Pararadicis Fu Shen 12-30g Quiets the Heart, calms the Spirit and soothes the nerves.

FORMULA ACTIONS

  • Regulates and tonifies the Heart and Kidneys
  • Stabilizes Jing
  • Stops seminal emissions

SYNDROMES

  • Heart and Kidney Deficiency

CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS

  • Frequent urination
  • Cloudy urine that resembles rice-water
  • Seminal emissions
  • Enuresis
  • Disorientation
  • Constipation
  • Forgetfulness
  • Fatigue
  • Anorexia
  • T: Pale or Light pink
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Thin, slow and frail or Deep and weak

TREATS

CONTRAINDICATIONS AND HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

CONTRAINDICATIONS
  • Contraindicated for those with Damp-Heat in the Lower Jiao.
  • Contraindicated for those with Fire in the Lower Jiao.
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

NOTES

MODIFICATIONS

For general fatigue and Deficiency: For more frequent urination:
+ Rx. Astragali Huang Qi + Rz. Atractylodis Macrocephalae Bai Zhu
For dense urine that feels sticky:
+ Rz. Dioscoreae Shan Yao + Rx. Glycyrrhizae Gan Cao
+ Sm. Euryales Qian Shi For enuresis or urinary incontinence:
For forgetfulness and inability to concentrate: + Fr. Alpiniae Oxyphyllae Yi Zhi Ren
+ Sm. Platycladi Bai Zi Ren + Fr. Rubi Fu Pen Zi
+ Dens Draconis Long Chi For palpitations, insomnia and forgetfulness:
For spermatorrhea or seminal emission: + Fr. Schisandrae Wu Wei Zi
+ Hb. Cynomorii Suo Yang + Sm. Zizyphi Spinosae Suan Zao Ren
+ Fr. Corni Shan Zhu Yu or
For spermatorrhea with a weak pulse:
+ Emperor of Heaven's Special Pill to Tonify the Heart
Tian Wang Bu Xin Dan
+ Sm. Astragali Complanati Sha Yuan Zi
For Kidney Yang Deficiency:
For Liver and Kidney Yin Deficiency: + Rx. Morindae Officinalis Ba Ji Tian
+ Six-Ingredient Pill with Rehmannia
Liu Wei Di Huang Wan
+ Rx. Aconiti Lateralis Preparata Zhi Fu Zi
For constipation with Qi Deficiency:
- Poria Pararadicis Fu Shen For constipation with Yin Deficiency:
+ Rz. Atractylodis Macrocephalae Bai Zhu - Poria Pararadicis Fu Shen
+ Carapax Trionycis Bie Jia
+ More Rx. Ginseng Ren Shen + More Plastrum Testudinis Gui Ban
For constipation with Blood Deficiency:
- Poria Pararadicis Fu Shen For constipation with frequent, dark, painful urination:
+ Colla Corii Asini E Jiao
+ More Rx. Angelicae Sinensis Dang Gui - Poria Pararadicis Fu Shen
+ Cx. Phellodendri Huang Bai
For constipation with frequent, clear urine: + Rz. Anemarrhenae Zhi Mu
- Poria Pararadicis Fu Shen For severe Kidney Yang Deficiency with a sense of Coldness:
+ More Ootheca Mantidis Sang Piao Xiao + Rx. Morindae Officinalis Ba Ji Tian
+ More Sm. Euryales Qian Shi + Rx. Aconiti Lateralis Preparata Zhi Fu Zi
+ Fr. Alpiniae Oxyphyllae Yi Zhi Ren
+ Fr. Rosae Laevigatae Jin Ying Zi + Cx. Cinnamomi Rou Gui
For unremitting incontinence: For severe spermatorrhea:
+ Restrict the Fountain Pill
Suo Quan Wan
+ Water and Earth Immortals Special Pill
Shui Lu Er Xian Dan
For severe long-term uterine prolapse with frequent urination and discharge: For spermatorrhea:
+ Fr. Corni Shan Zhu Yu
+ Rx. Astragali Huang Qi + Sm. Astragali Complanati Sha Yuan Zi
+ Rz. Cimicifugae Sheng Ma
+ Rx. Bupleuri Chai Hu For the elderly with dripping urination during the day:
For nocturnal emission:
- Rx. Polygalae Yuan Zhi - Rx. Polygalae Yuan Zhi
+ Fr. Schisandrae Wu Wei Zi + Rx. Astragali Huang Qi
+ Fr. Rosae Laevigatae Jin Ying Zi + Fr. Corni Shan Zhu Yu
For frequent urination:
For stubborn frequent urination:
+ 12g Fr. Lycii Gou Qi Zi + 12g Fr. Lycii Gou Qi Zi
+ 9g Sm. Astragali Complanati Sha Yuan Zi
+ 9g Sm. Astragali Complanati Sha Yuan Zi
+ 9g Fr. Rubi Fu Pen Zi + 9g Fr. Rubi Fu Pen Zi
For frequent urination with Spleen Qi Deficiency:
+ 9g Fr. Alpiniae Oxyphyllae Yi Zhi Ren
+ 12g Fr. Lycii Gou Qi Zi + 9g Fr. Psoraliae Bu Gu Zhi
+ 9g Sm. Astragali Complanati Sha Yuan Zi
For frequent urination with prostatic hypertrophy:
+ 9g Fr. Rubi Fu Pen Zi + 12g Fr. Lycii Gou Qi Zi
+ 6g Rz. Cimicifugae Sheng Ma + 9g Sm. Astragali Complanati Sha Yuan Zi
+ 12g Rx. Codonopsis Dang Shen
+ 9g Rz. Atractylodis Macrocephalae Bai Zhu + 9g Fr. Rubi Fu Pen Zi
+ two or three of the following:
+ 6g Rz. Zingiberis Gan Jiang 12g Concha Ostreae Mu Li
or
 9g Bul. Fritillariae Thunbergii Zhe Bei Mu
+ 12g Fr. Lycii Gou Qi Zi
+ 9g Sm. Astragali Complanati Sha Yuan Zi 12g Rx. Scrophulariae Xuan Shen
9g Squama Manitis Chuan Shan Jia
+ 9g Fr. Rubi Fu Pen Zi 12g Concha Arcae Wa Leng Zi
+ Tonify the Middle and Augment the Qi Decoction
Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang
9g Sm. Vaccariae Wang Bu Liu Xing
For Excess urine:
For neurasthenia with insomnia:
+ Rx. Dioscoreae Shan Yao
+ Fr. Schisandrae Wu Wei Zi + Fr. Corni Shan Zhu Yu
+ Fr. Zizyphi Spinosae Suan Zao Ren For spermatorrhea:
For nocturia and enuresis: + Fr. Corni Shan Zhu Yu
- Fossilia Ossis Mastodi Long Gu + Sm. Astragali Complanati Sha Yuan Zi
- Plastrum Testudinis Gui Ban
+ 15g calcined Concha Ostreae Duan Mu Li For nocturia and enuresis with vaginal discharge:
- Fossilia Ossis Mastodi Long Gu
+ 9g salt stir-fried Fr. Alpiniae Oxyphyllae Yi Zhi Ren - Plastrum Testudinis Gui Ban
+ 15g calcined Concha Ostreae Duan Mu Li
+ 9g Fr. Rubi Fu Pen Zi
For nocturia and enuresis with loose stools or daybreak diarrhea: + 9g salt stir-fried Fr. Alpiniae Oxyphyllae Yi Zhi Ren
- Fossilia Ossis Mastodi Long Gu + 9g Fr. Rubi Fu Pen Zi
- Plastrum Testudinis Gui Ban + 9g Sm. Euryales Qian Shi
+ 15g calcined Concha Ostreae Duan Mu Li + 9g Endoconcha Sepiae Hai Piao Xiao
+ 9g salt stir-fried Fr. Alpiniae Oxyphyllae Yi Zhi Ren For nocturia and enuresis with seminal emission or premature ejaculation:
+ 9g Fr. Rubi Fu Pen Zi - Fossilia Ossis Mastodi Long Gu
9g Fr. Psoraliae Bu Gu Zhi - Plastrum Testudinis Gui Ban
For a stronger astringent function: + 15g calcined Concha Ostreae Duan Mu Li
+ 9g Sm. Nelumbinis Lian Zi
+ 9g Sm. Euryales Qian Shi + 9g salt stir-fried Fr. Alpiniae Oxyphyllae Yi Zhi Ren
+ 9g Fr. Rosae Laevigatae Jin Ying Zi
+ 9g Fr. Rubi Fu Pen Zi
    + 9g. Sm. Astragali Complanati Sha Yuan Zi