Bu Zhong Yi Qi..Tang is never labelled ...wan because

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Chinese Traditional Medicine , Nancy S+13 <nancy@s...> wrote:

>

> This is my first post so I hope you don't mind a question. I have

some

> capsules from Sun Ten labelled Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang and I'm curious

why

> that is? Why is it not labelled Bu Zhong Yi Qi Wan since it's

swallowed

> like a pill?

>

> Nancy S+13

>

 

 

" Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang " is the original name of the recipe,

given by its original inventor,

this complete name is used to prevent misunderstandings.

Even if it is prepared as powder, honey pill, water pill.

 

 

Mai men dong Yinzi(potion)

is quite different (from the herbals used) from

Mai men dong Tang(decoction)

 

Chaihu Shu Gan Tang(decoction)

is different from

Chaihu Shu Gan San (powder)

 

Zhu Ling Tang

Zhu Ling Wan

 

Huang Qi Yinzi

Huang Qi tang

etc etc

The composition of each recipe in itself is different,

a different name ending has been chosen to state the difference.

 

What makes things complicated is that recipes

with *same* names sometimes have different constituents,

issued by different doctors from different centuries.

 

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wan is 'rising tone'.