WH Acupuncture & Herbs Centre

Silk Pouch Pills bu dai wan

[SOURCE]: Modified Pocket Treatise on Pediatric Formulae

[INGREDIENTS]: Bat dung 60g,  Prepared fruit of macrocarpa-elm 60g,  Quisqualis fruit 60g,  White poria 15g,  Bighead atractylodes rhizome 15g,  Ginseng I5g,  Licorice 15g,  Aloes 15g

[DIRECTIONS]:Grind the above herbs into fine powder. Take 3 gram of this powder with pork soup each time before breakfast.

[EFFECTS]: Expelling ascaris and tonifying the spleen and stomach for infan­tile malnutrition.

[INDICATIONS]: Infantile malnutrition due to parasite retention marked by fe­verish body with famished look, thin limbs with distending abdomen, withering hair and lusterless eyesight.

[ANALYSIS OF FORMULA]: This is a common formula for treating parasite retention with weak constitution. Bat dung, prepared fruit of macroarpa-elm and quisqualis fruit act as the main herbs to expel pearasites. As the assistant herbs, ginseng, bighead atractylodes rhizome and poria are to reinforce the middle and to strengthen the spleen. Aloes is the adjuvant herb to purge parasites. Licorice, as the dispatcher, can reinforce the middle-qi as well as karmonizing all the compo­nents.

Both this formula and Baby-Nourishing Pills can treat infantile malnutrition and have the effect of destroying parasites. The former is cooperated by herbs for strengthening the spleen and reinforcing qi, so it is suitable to parasite retention with deficiency of the spleen and stomach; while the latter is emphasized on de­stroying parasites, so it is more suitable to abdominal pain of the excessive type due to parasite retention.