Rice-Spoon Pills

Rice-Spoon Pills,For spleen-related diarrhea.

Formulas Name : Rice-Spoon Pills

Chinese Name : 饭匙丸

Drug Formulation

1 jin of rice-cooking residue powder (i.e., the burnt residue from a rice pot), half a jin of lotus seed (with the core removed and ground into powder), and half a jin of Huaiqing yam (stir-fried until fragrant and ground into powder).

Source

*The Collection of Wonderful Formulas for Nourishing Life*, Volume 5.

Processing

Measure the ingredients using the rice-spoon residue as a unit, mix into a paste, and form into pills the size of a paulownia seed.

Benefits

For spleen-related diarrhea.

Instructions for Use

For severe damp-heat conditions, take 100 pills per dose, washed down with a decoction of Qingpi, or with rice water; for spleen deficiency, take with Atractylodes decoction, one dose on an empty stomach and one after a meal.

Rice-Spoon Pills,*The Collection of Wonderful Formulas for Nourishing Life*, Volume 5.,For spleen-related diarrhea.

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