formula | Modified Eight-Ingredient Pill Jia Jian Ba Wei Wan |
bubble_chart Composition Prepared Rehmannia Root (select good quality, processed, baked, filed) 60 gm, True Chinese Yam (filed finely, slightly stir-fried) 30 gm, Cornus Fruit (pitted, baked dry) 30 gm, Cinnamon (coarse bark removed, filed, indirect heat, separately ground to fine powder) 15 gm, Alisma Rhizome (washed with water, filed into pieces, moistened with ash-free wine, steamed five times on a tile vessel, filed, baked) 24 gm, Moutan Bark (de-cored, twigs removed, filed, stir-fried) 24 gm, White Poria (black skin removed, filed, baked) 24 gm, Northern Schisandra Fruit (de-twigged, slowly stir-fried until thoroughly cooked, separately ground and sieved) 45 gm.
bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage
Grind the above ingredients into powder and sift to obtain fine powder. Mix with honey that has been cooked and cooled, then form into pills the size of a phoenix tree seed. Take 30 pills before meals with ash-free wine or salt water as desired.
bubble_chart Indications
Consumptive thirst.