An Zhong San is for stomach pain due to cold. This can come about by eating too many cold foods like a constant diet of salads and smoothies made from iced fruit. Put some Ginger in there with your smoothie. For women (and men I guess) showing off that belly button in all types of weather doesn’t help. Surfers here in Southern California get it too. This is a very warming formula.

Alternative Names

• an zhong san
• an chung san
• Middle-Soothing Powder
• Calm the Stomach
• anchusan
• antyu san
• Anchū-san
• 安中散
• あんちゅうさん
• TJ5; TJ-5; TJ 5

Ingredients

Rou Gui 肉桂 inner bark of Saigon cinnamon, cinnamon bark Cinnamomi Cortex [don’t use if pregnant]

Gan Cao 甘草 licorice root Radix Glycyrrhizae [caution]

Yan Hu Suo 延胡索 corydalis rhizome Rhizoma Corydalis Yanhusuo, Corydalis Rhizoma

Gao Liang Jiang 高良姜 lesser galangal rhizome, galanga Alpiniae officinarum Rhizoma

Mu Li 牡蠣 oyster shell Concha Ostreae

Bai Dou Kou 白豆蔻 round cardamon fruit, cardamon cluster Fructus Amomi Kravanh

Xiao Hui Xiang 小茴香 fennel fruit Foeniculi Fructus [use caution if pregnant]

This formula can be used to support health with or without symptoms. If symptoms are present, take 1 level teaspoon of the powder (8 capsules) three times daily. When symptoms are not present, take 1/2 level teaspoon (4 capsules), two times daily. Empty stomach is best for efficient absorption, but not essential. [More…]

At this dosage, your order will last approximately this long (?):

• 100 grams powder (capsules or powder): 8 to 25 days
• 200 grams powder (powder only): 19 to 56 days