Sixty days of lifting
Bu Zhong Yi Qi Wan 6 Pack
6 bottles · 360 tablets · about 60 days at 6 a day
Overworked, fretting, living on biscuits? That's more or less who Li Dongyuan had in mind for Bu Zhong Yi Qi Wan. Six bottles at six a day is sixty days. For a slow, steady, look-after-the-middle formula? About right, we'd say. Why take it over weeks
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Li Dongyuan's long view of tiredness
Li's whole argument was that exhaustion often comes from the inside, from a Spleen and Stomach worn out by hunger, worry and graft, rather than something caught from outside. A week to lift all that? Nobody thought so. His Earth school followers gave building formulas proper time, and fussed over how you ate and slept every bit as much as the herbs. With sixty days you actually find out if that heavy, dragging, worse-by-teatime feeling is budging. One bottle in, you'd only be guessing.
And then the boring practical bit. Astragalus runs the show here, and it's got a name for being slow and steady (not flashy at all). Every day for weeks, herbalists reckoned, beat the odd day when you remembered. Steady wins, basically. So it helps not to run dry on day ten and spend a week twiddling your thumbs waiting for the postman.
10 days a bottle, about 60 days in all
Two months, three checkpoints
Bottles 1–2
Days 1 to 20
Three at breakfast, three at tea. Li would've nagged you about warm meals at proper times, so, you know, maybe ditch the sad desk lunch while you're at it?
Bottles 3–4
Days 21 to 40
Carry on. Caught a cold, or flu? Then stop for now, because herbalists wouldn't give a lifting tonic while a bug was still at the surface. Back on once you're over it.
Bottles 5–6
Days 41 to 60
Notice whether energy dips less with effort. Two months on and still shattered, or worse? That's one for your GP, frankly.
Pregnant or breastfeeding, or on regular medication of any sort? Talk to your GP before Bu Zhong Yi Qi Wan, please. On warfarin or another blood thinner? Then the dong quai and ginseng rule it out, and liquorice can push your blood pressure up a bit. Do ask your GP or pharmacist first.
Choosing between them
Three takes on a tired Spleen
Same family, these. Spleen Qi builders, every one. The difference? It's how the tiredness behaves, frankly: pulling you down, just sitting there quietly, or lying awake with you at 3am.
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Worn out, and everything sagging. Heavy legs by the afternoon, a flat voice, worse with effort and better after a lie down. Astragalus leads, with bupleurum to lift.
Simply tired
Si Jun Zi Tang
The Four Gentlemen. Plain Spleen Qi deficiency without the sinking: pale, soft-voiced, not very hungry. Gentle enough that herbalists gave it to grandparents.
See Si Jun Zi TangTired but can't switch off
Gui Pi Tang
Chosen when the tiredness comes with a busy, worrying mind and restless nights. Brings in longan and polygala for the Heart as well as the Spleen.
See Gui Pi TangWhat's in the box
Six bottles of Bu Zhong Yi Qi Wan
Every bottle is the same: 60 tablets of the formula on our single bottle page, so 6 a day gives you 10 days a bottle.
| Huang Qi Astragalus mongholicus | 875mg |
| Ren Shen Panax ginseng | 404mg |
| Bai Zhu Atractylodes macrocephala | 471mg |
| Gan Cao Glycyrrhiza glabra | 269mg |
| Dang Gui Angelica sinensis | 404mg |
| Chen Pi Citrus reticulata | 337mg |
| Chai Hu Bupleurum chinense | 337mg |
| Jie Geng Platycodon grandiflorus | 269mg |
Also contains: Cassava starch, Hypromellose, Magnesium stearate, Polyethylene glycol, Talc.
Living with six bottles
The practical bits
Storing them
Somewhere cool and dry, out of direct sun. Leave the bottles you're not using sealed until you need them.
Best before
Every bottle carries its own best-before date on the label, so check the one you open next.
Delivery
Order before 3pm on a weekday and it goes out the same day from Essex. UK delivery is free on orders over £40.
Changed your mind?
Sealed, unopened bottles can be returned within 14 days of delivery. The details are in our refund policy.
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What people say about Bu Zhong Yi Qi Wan
Very easy to take. Easy for people needed and don’t want the messy
Xuejiao Z., verified buyerExcellent and efficient service. Have not been taking them for long but already seen an increase in my energy levels.
Alison M., verified buyerMy acupuncturist recommended me these supplements, and although it has only been less than 2 months taking them I can feel an improvement with my digestion.
Mercedes M., verified buyerBu Zhong Yi Qi Wan: your questions
Is Bu Zhong Yi Qi Wan the formula people mention for prolapse?
Yes, historically the 'sinking' it was designed around included the sense of things slipping down, and that's how it came to be linked with prolapse in Chinese medicine books. It isn't a treatment for a prolapse, though. Feel a heaviness down below, or a bulge? See your GP. They can get you a proper look and send you on for pelvic floor physio.
I've been ill for ages. Is Bu Zhong Yi Qi Wan what people took afterwards?
They have done for centuries. Li Dongyuan developed his ideas watching people fall ill and stay exhausted after the siege of Kaifeng, so slow recovery is very much in its history. Not a treatment for post-viral fatigue, mind, or for anything else. Still worn out weeks after being poorly? Get your GP to check you over.
Hang on, does it matter what I'm eating?
To Li Dongyuan, enormously. Meals at all hours, stuffing yourself, missing them altogether, loads of cold or raw stuff... all of it wore out the Spleen, his lot said. So his followers would've had you on hot, cooked food at set times, sat down, not grazing as you go. Rest too. Doing too much was one of his big themes.
So what were herbalists actually watching for, week to week?
Energy, mostly. Did effort knock you flat as much? And was your appetite coming back? They'd also keep an eye out for it lifting too hard (a headache, a red face, going hot and ratty) and that'd be their cue to stop. Lifting herbs weren't thought to suit people whose blood pressure runs high, which is another reason to ask your GP first.
And a 6-pack of Bu Zhong Yi Qi Wan lasts me how long?
Sixty days. It's six standard 60-tablet bottles, the same formula as the single bottle, and each one lasts ten days at three tablets morning and evening. That covers the two-month stretch most people have in mind, without a mid-way gap while you wait for another order.
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