Sun Ten Gan Cao Xie Xin Tang | Pinellia & Licorice Combination Capsules | 甘草瀉心湯 / Default Title

An 1,800-year-old digestive formula that finally fits in a capsule instead of a bowl of bitter tea.

Gan Cao Xie Xin Tang, also known as Pinellia and Licorice Combination, is a classical Traditional Chinese Medicine formula that has been prepared and studied for centuries. Sun Ten takes the traditional decoction, concentrates it, and puts it into a capsule so you don't have to boil roots on your stove like it's 200 AD. Licorice root is in here, which is funny because licorice is also a candy, but this is not that. Nobody is putting this in a movie theater. It's an herb that happens to taste sweet, and the "sweet" part is doing structural work in the formula, not dessert work.

Pinellia, the other headliner, is one of those roots that TCM practitioners have leaned on for generations to support digestive comfort and a calm, settled stomach. The formula combines pinellia and licorice along with other traditional botanicals, blended in the classic ratio, to support healthy digestive function and gastrointestinal comfort the way it's meant to work, not the way a fortune cookie describes it.

What This Formula Is Traditionally Used to Support

• Supports digestive comfort and a settled stomach
• Supports healthy gastrointestinal function
• Promotes a balanced, calm digestive response
• Supports the body's normal digestive rhythm after eating

This is a concentrated herbal extract, which is a fancy way of saying somebody already did the boiling, straining, and reducing so you don't have to stand over a pot for two hours wondering if you're doing ancient medicine correctly. You just take the capsule. That's the whole ritual now. The formula itself has stayed the same since long before capsules existed, which either means it's extremely well designed or nobody's gotten around to updating it. Both are fine with us.

Why Sun Ten

Sun Ten has been producing granule and capsule versions of classical Chinese herbal formulas for decades, using standardized extraction methods so the ratio of herbs matches the traditional formula instead of whatever happened to grow that season. Each batch is tested for identity and quality, because "trust me, it's pinellia" isn't a great quality control system.

Gan Cao Xie Xin Tang is intended to support general digestive wellness as part of a healthy lifestyle. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, and if your digestive system is currently on fire, that's a conversation for a doctor, not a capsule.

*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.