formula | Pork Belly Pill Zhu Du Wan |
source | Volume 21 of Essential Prescriptions Worth A Thousand Gold for Emergencies |
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bubble_chart Composition One pig stomach (prepared as per cooking method), 150g each of Coptis chinensis and Sorghum rice, 120g each of Trichosanthes root and Poria cocos, 90g of Anemarrhena, and 60g of Ophiopogon japonicus.
bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage
Grind the above 7 ingredients into powder, stuff them into a pig's stomach and sew it shut. Steam it in a pot until extremely tender, then while hot, pound it thoroughly in a wooden mortar. Mix with honey to form pills as big as a phoenix tree seed. Take 30 pills each time, administer twice a day, gradually increasing to 50 pills, and take as needed when thirsty.
bubble_chart Efficacy
Enriching yin and producing fluid, clearing heat and quenching thirst.
bubble_chart Indications
Consumptive thirst, priapism.