Green Alum Pills

Green Alum Pills,For jaundice with swelling.

Formulas Name : Green Alum Pills

Chinese Name : 绿矾丸

Drug Formulation

Half a jin of gallnut (roasted until black), 4 liang of green alum (roasted with ginger juice until white), 4 liang of cinnabar (roasted with vinegar until red), and half a jin of Shenqu (roasted until slightly yellow).

Source

From *Collected Proven Formulas*, cited in *The Correct Transmission of Medicine*, Volume 6.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder. Boil jujube pulp in ginger juice and shape into pills the size of a paulownia seed.

Benefits

For jaundice with swelling.

Instructions for Use

Take 60–70 pills per dose, washed down with warm wine; if unable to drink alcohol, rice soup may be used instead.

Note

Avoid buckwheat noodles for life.

Green Alum Pills,From *Collected Proven Formulas*, cited in *The Correct Transmission of Medicine*, Volume 6.,For jaundice with swelling.

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