生脈飲

Chinese

		to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw	mountain range; pulse	drink
trad. (生脈飲)		生	脈	飲
simp. (生脉饮)		生	脉	饮

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shēngmàiyǐn

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄥ ㄇㄞˋ ㄧㄣˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shēngmàiyǐn
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄥ ㄇㄞˋ ㄧㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shengmàiyǐn
    • Wade–Giles: shêng¹-mai⁴-yin³
    • Yale: shēng-mài-yǐn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shengmayyiin
    • Palladius: шэнмайинь (šɛnmajinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ maɪ̯⁵¹ in²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Noun

生脈飲

1. A clear, yellowish-brown to pale reddish-brown liquid used in traditional Chinese medicine "to replenish qi, restore normal pulse, nourish yin and promote the production of body fluid in the treatment of deficiency of qi and yin marked by cardiac palpitation, shortness of breath, scarcely perceptible pulse and spontaneous sweating".

Shengmai oral liquid has the following herbal ingredients:

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

References

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