Cistanche (soaked in wine, cleaned, scraped off wrinkled skin and sand, finely cut, baked dry, ground into powder) 500 gm; Achyranthes root (remove sprouts, soaked in wine, filed, baked dry, ground into powder) 240 gm; Cuscuta seeds (sweet and smooth ones, washed to remove floaters) 135 gm (soaked in wine for three to five days until soft and mushy, ground into paste in a sand pot); Papaya 4 pieces (if no flower papaya is available, use 10 small ripe yellow papayas, peeled and seeded, boiled in wine until mushy, ground into paste in a sand pot, then mixed with 10 shēng of fine wine to simmer the 4 ingredients, cooked in a silver pot over a double boiler with slow fire, stirred continuously to avoid burning, adjust the consistency with more powdered medicine if too hard, add refined honey to keep it soft and moist for easy pill formation); Aconite 6 pieces (cracked, de-naveled and de-skinned, filed, mixed with 90 gm of green salt, stir-fried until yellow); Elk horn 150 gm (filed into powder, mixed with butter, stir-fried until yellow); Zanthoxylum peel 120 gm; Nutmeg kernel 60 gm; Psoralea 90 gm (cleaned, stir-fried to release aroma); Paper mulberry fruit (ripe red ones, washed to remove floaters, baked dry) 105 gm; Morinda root (de-cored, stir-fried until yellow) 90 gm; Costus root 60 gm; Deer antler (de-fuzzed, butter-roasted) 90 gm; Cinnamon (coarse bark removed) 90 gm; Cnidium seeds (cleaned) 60 gm; Areca nut 60 gm (filed); Dried ginger (cracked) 90 gm.

bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage

Grind the above 17 ingredients into fine powder. Mix the previously prepared paste with the 13 powdered ingredients to form a mixture. Then, pound it in a mortar for two to three thousand strokes, adding a small amount of genuine butter. Form pills as big as a phoenix tree seed. Take 30 pills each time, before meals, with warm wine or administer with light salt water, twice a day. Gradually increase to 50 pills.

Nourish liver energy, strengthen tendons and bones, and prolong life.

bubble_chart Indications

Liver and kidney qi deficiency, impaired hearing and vision, and cold pain in the abdomen and flanks.

bubble_chart Cautions and Contraindications

Those with internal heat, Jinfu.