Sweet Lepidium 15 gm (stir-fried until fragrant) Yu Li Ren (soaked, peeled, pointed, cooked until purple, weighed) 22 gm (ground separately with Lepidium into a paste, mixed thoroughly) Bai Zhu 15 gm Qian Niu Zi 15 gm (half used raw, half used cooked) Chi Fu Ling (peeled) Sang Bai Pi (honey-roasted, filed) Qiang Huo (washed, de-soiled) Han Fang Ji Chen Ju Pi (white part removed) Ze Xie, each 22 gm.

bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage

Grind into a fine powder, mix with the previous two ingredients, refine with honey, and pound in a mortar to form pills as big as a phoenix tree seed. Initially take 10 pills, taken with ginger and tangerine peel decoction before meals, twice daily. If ineffective, increase to 20-30 pills, adjusting until the desired effect is achieved.

bubble_chart Indications

Abdominal dampness stroke with heat, swelling under the eyes resembling newly risen silkworm heads, slight swelling of both shins; fullness in the middle with shortness of breath and cough, wheezing with audible sounds, every time lying down there is a rising of qi in the right flank, discomfort in the shoulders, armpits, and supraclavicular fossa, and loss of appetite.