formula | Incomparable Pill Wu Bi Wan |
source | Volume 3 of Yixue Zhengzhuan |
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bubble_chart Composition Placenta 1 piece (preferably from a newborn, or from a healthy, robust woman, soaked in rice vinegar overnight, then baked dry for use)
Gentian, Licorice (roasted) 6 gm each
Turtle shell (butter-roasted) 15 gm
Platycodon, Picrorhiza, Rhubarb (mixed with wine, moistened, then steamed), Sophora, Phellodendron, Anemarrhena (de-fuzzed), Autumn stone, Fritillaria (de-cored) 7.5 gm each
Rhinoceros horn shavings, Curcuma, Niter 4.5 gm each
Decayed drum skin core (roasted yellow with rice vinegar) 7.5 gm
Cinnabar 30 gm (separately ground)
bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage
Grind together into fine powder, make into pills with refined honey, as big as a phoenix tree seed, coat with cinnabar, take 20 pills each time, increasing to 30 pills, administer with warm wine, take before meals for hypochondriac heat and after meals for diaphragmatic heat.
bubble_chart Indications
Strain.