大山楂丸

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	mountain; hill	Chinese quince; hawthorn; fell trees Chinese quince; hawthorn; fell trees; raft; to hew	pill
trad. (大山楂丸)		大	山	楂	丸
simp. #(大山楂丸)		大	山	楂	丸

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàshānzhā wán

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄕㄢ ㄓㄚ ㄨㄢˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàshānzhā wán
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄕㄢ ㄓㄚ ㄨㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàshanjha wán
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴-shan¹-cha¹ wan²
    • Yale: dà-shān-jā wán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahshanja wan
    • Palladius: дашаньчжа вань (dašanʹčža vanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ ʂän⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂä⁵⁵ wän³⁵/

Noun

大山楂丸

1. A brownish-red or brown pill used in traditional Chinese medicine to "induce appetite, promote digestion, and to treat anorexia, indigestion, epigastric and abdominal distension due to retention of the food in the stomach or intestine". The binding agent is honey.

Dashanzha pills contain the following ingredients:

Name	Chinese (S)	Grams
Fructus Crataegi	山楂	1000
Massa Medicata Fermentata (stir-baked with bran)	神曲 (麸炒)	150
Fructus Hordei Germinatus (stir-baked)	麦芽 (炒)	150

References

• State Pharmacopoeia Commission of the PRC (2005). "Pharmacopoeia of The People's Republic of China (Volume I)". Chemical Industry Press. →ISBN.