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Min Shan Tao Ren Wan, or Peach Kernel Teapills, is a special formulation from Min Shan designed to loosen the bowels, relieve constipation, and moisten the intenstines. Tao Ren Wan may also help with skin, nails, lips, improve blood and body fluid consistency.

Key Applications: Constipation Functions: Moistens the Intestines, Unblocks the Bowels

Indications: Blood, fluid or Yin deficiency with mild heat and wind in the intestines. Presenting with constipation, difficult bowel movements, hard, dry or pellet-like stools, dry, lusterless skin and nails, pale nails, lips and inner eyelids, dry mouth, thirst. Tongue: dry, yellow coat Pulse: thin, wiry.**

Biomedical Applications: Chronic constipation, post-partum constipation, post-surgical constipation, constipation in the elderly, constipation following a febrile disease, painful hemorrhoids.*

Standard Dosage: 8 pills, 3 x day.

Clinical Dosage: Administer Tao Ren Wan half an hour before or one hour after eating. In the initial phases of treatment a small dose of 4 pills 2-3 times daily is usually used. Dose may be increased until a smooth bowel movement is achieved, then reduced to the minimum required to give a result. May be used medium-term for a few weeks to a few months. It is often administered along with a constitutional formula as a long-term treatment for chronic constipation, and the dosage of this formula is gradually reduced as the condition improves. Once constipation has been relieved, this formula should be discontinued and replaced with an appropriate constitutional formula, as patients can habituate to rhubarb’s laxative effect.**

Ingredients: Prunus persica seed, Linum usitatissimum seed, Notopterygium incisium root, Angelica sinensis root, Rheum palmatum root. – Tao ren, Ya ma zi, Qiang huo, Dang gui, Da huang.

Cautions & Contraindications: Contraindicated during pregnancy and menstruation. Use with caution in breast-feeding women as Da huang/rhubarb can pass through the breast milk causing colic and diarrhea in infants. May cause mild abdominal cramping in sensitive patients. Use with caution in Spleen deficient patients with a tendency to loose stools, diarrhea, poor appetite or chronic digestive weakness. Contains tree nuts.**

Product Notes: Over the years we have had many requests to carry all of the unique formulas of the Min Shan line in the Plum Flower Classic line as well. Many patients find the Plum Flower packaging and labeling more accessible and easier to use, offering greater patient compliance. Still, others may prefer the cost effectiveness and traditional packaging of Min Shan brand. This and other Min Shan products are currently undergoing repackaging to make the box more user-friendly. The Min Shan version of this product will become available again in the near future. We recommend the Plum Flower Classic version as a substitute in the interim and apologize for any inconvenience.

*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

**This information is provided to assist trained practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine with selection of products. If you are not familiar with these formulas or concepts, please consult an acupuncturist or herbal practitioner trained in the use of Chinese herbs or refer to more in-depth reference materials. Chinese herbal remedies are meant to improve health and function, not act as a substitute for medical care.