formula name | Five Pounds Pill |
source | "Yang's Family Prescriptions" Volume 4 |
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bubble_chart Composition Large papaya (peeled, seeded), Achyranthes root (de-reeded head, soaked in wine overnight, dried, cut, baked), Cistanche (soaked in wine overnight, cut, baked), Gastrodia elata (transparent, cut, baked), each 500 gm; Tiger bone (coated with酥, roasted to yellow), Myrrh (separately ground), Sichuan aconite (prepared, de-naveled and de-skinned), Chinese yam, each 120 gm.
bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage
Steam the papaya until soft, then mash it into a paste. Grind the remaining ingredients into powder and mix them together to form pills. If the mixture does not hold together, use the original ox knee wine to make a dough paste and mix it evenly. Place the mixture in a mortar and pound it one to two thousand times, forming pills as big as a phoenix tree seed. Take 30 pills each time, gradually increasing to 50 pills, before meals with warm wine or administer with light salt water.
bubble_chart Indications
Insufficient essence and blood, weak waist and knees, difficulty walking, weakness in the lower limbs, and cold-dampness beriberi.