formula | Shrimp Frog Pill Ha Ma Wan |
source | Taiping Huimin Heji Jufang Volume 10 |
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bubble_chart Composition Toad, Quisqualis (stir-fried), Gleditsia (roasted), each 60 gm; Indigo Naturalis (ground) 75 gm; Gentiana (remove sprouts) 120 gm; Realgar (ground, water-flown) 60 gm.
bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage
Grind the ingredients into a fine powder, mix thoroughly, and form into pills the size of millet grains using water paste. For a one-year-old, administer 7 pills each time; for a two-year-old, 10 pills; and for a three-year-old, 20 pills. These can be taken with milk or a rice drink, without regard to meal times.
bubble_chart Indications
The child has abdominal distension and fullness, a sallow complexion, thin and itchy skin, occasional chills and fever, no desire for milk or food, a craving for eating dirt, rubbing the nose and biting nails, hair that is matted and does not grow well, frequent sores and ringworm, irregular bowel movements, urine that is like rice water, vomiting of milk and food, dysentery with varying colors, and a gradual progression to jaundice and emaciation, developing into malnutrition disease.