Sixty evenings' supply
Te Xiao An Mian Pian 6 Pack
6 bottles · 360 tablets · about 60 days at 6 a day
Six bottles of the silk tree bark and night-joining vine formula. Sixty days of Te Xiao An Mian Pian for people whose head keeps going after the lights go off, and who'd like to settle into an evening routine with it. Why take it over weeks
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- 5:1 strength
- DaoDi herbs
- Vegan & gluten-free
- GMP certified
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Building an evening that winds down
Te Xiao An Mian Pian works on a Chinese medicine idea about the Heart and the Shen: if the Heart runs a little hot or underfed, the mind has nowhere comfortable to rest at night. Herbalists didn't think that pattern came from one bad week, so they didn't expect it to shift in one either. What they did lean on was routine. Tablets at the same time every night, phone left in the kitchen, the lamp on and the big light off. That kind of thing. Give it sixty days and it can become part of how you wind down, rather than something you grab in a panic at 1am (we've all been there).
Lovely detail, this. Several of the herbs get their names from the night, plants that fold their leaves or wind round each other once it's dark. It's a cooling formula with a bit of edge from uncaria and anemarrhena, so it suits the wired, slightly irritable version of a sleepless night more than the exhausted one.
10 days a bottle, about 60 days in all
Two months of evenings
Bottles 1–2
Days 1 to 20
Three with breakfast, then three about an hour before bed. Jot down roughly when you turned in and how many times you woke. You'd be surprised what shows up on paper.
Bottles 3–4
Days 21 to 40
Now sort the rest of your evening out a bit. A racing Heart, herbalists would say, really doesn't want a late espresso, a huge dinner or doom-scrolling in bed. Little tweaks, honestly.
Bottles 5–6
Days 41 to 60
Have a flick back through those notes. Two months in and still sleeping badly, or it's wrecking your days? Go and see your GP, please. Don't just plough on by yourself.
On warfarin or another blood thinner? Skip it, the red sage doesn't mix. We'd keep it well away from sedatives and sleeping pills too. Pregnant or breastfeeding, it's a no. Had liver trouble before? Get advice first, since the fleeceflower vine is from the same plant as he shou wu. And if at any point in the two months your skin or eyes go yellowish, your wee turns dark or you're oddly tired, stop. Have a word with your GP or pharmacist before you start, we'd much rather you did.
Choosing between them
Other Shen-settling formulas we stock
Te Xiao An Mian Pian sits among several formulas for a mind that won't switch off. Herbalists told them apart by what came with the restlessness.
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Te Xiao An Mian Pian
A 20th-century patent formula with silk tree bark, night-joining vine and red sage. Chosen for a restless, slightly hot Heart with a wound-up Liver.
Dry and depleted
Tian Wang Bu Xin Dan
Thirteen herbs led by rehmannia. Herbalists chose it when the busy mind came with a dry mouth, warm evenings and a sense of being worn thin from overwork.
See Tian Wang Bu Xin DanKnotted-up tension
Jie Yu An Shen Pian
A modern formula for when tension seemed to camp in the shoulders and chest, and stuck Qi and Blood kept the Shen from settling.
See Jie Yu An Shen PianWhat's in the box
Six bottles of Te Xiao An Mian Pian
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.
| He Huan Pi Albizia julibrissin | 741mg |
| Shou Wu Teng Reynoutria multiflora | 673mg |
| Dan Shen Salvia miltiorrhiza | 673mg |
| Yuan Zhi Polygala tenuifolia | 337mg |
| Wu Wei Zi Schisandra chinensis | 236mg |
| Gou Teng Uncaria rhynchophylla | 303mg |
| Zhi Mu Anemarrhena asphodeloides | 337mg |
| Gan Cao Glycyrrhiza glabra | 67mg |
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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Nathalia F., verified buyer of Gui Pi TangTe Xiao An Mian Pian: your questions
Is Te Xiao An Mian Pian for insomnia?
Historically, it's one of the formulas Chinese herbalists reached for around poor sleep, in the sense of a restless Shen. Mind you, it's a food supplement, so it isn't an insomnia treatment. Bad nights that drag on past a few weeks? Or they've come along with low mood or anxiety? Then it's worth telling your GP, who can point you at things that are proven to work, like CBT for sleep.
Can't I just take all six at bedtime?
We'd stick with three in the morning and three in the evening. The formula was designed as a daily one, and herbalists thought of the Heart needing steady support through the day, not just a dose at bedtime. Plenty of people take the evening three about an hour before bed, which seems a sensible compromise.
Did herbalists pair it with any habits?
Oh yes. For a hot, restless Heart the advice was basically to stop winding yourself up late in the day. No strong tea or coffee past lunchtime. Lighter tea in the evening (the meal, that is). And not too much telly, phone or rowing with anyone before bed. Going to bed at roughly the same time each night mattered too. Dull advice, perhaps, but they'd have said the herbs work better with it.
Can I take it with Gui Pi Tang?
It's not a combination to put together yourself. The two are traditionally chosen for quite different pictures, Te Xiao An Mian Pian for hot and wound up, Gui Pi Tang for tired and worried. A qualified herbalist can decide if you need either, or one then the other, but doubling up on sleep-related formulas without advice isn't a good idea.
How long does the 6-pack last?
Sixty days. It's the same Te Xiao An Mian Pian as the single bottle, six bottles of 60 tablets, and at six a day each lasts ten days. That's about two months of evenings, enough to see whether it fits into your routine.
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