Plum Blossom Beans

Plum Blossom Beans,

Formulas Name : Plum Blossom Beans

Chinese Name : 梅花豆

Drug Formulation

1 liang of red beans, 1 liang of black beans, 1 liang of mung beans.

Source

Formula by Zhu Yugong, cited in Volume 3 of *Xian Nian Ji*.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a powder, place it in a fresh bamboo tube (peeled but with the nodes intact), drill a hole to insert the beans, plug the opening tightly with cypress wood, and seal it securely with wax. Soak it in a latrine during the 12th lunar month, then remove it in the 2nd lunar month and air-dry it. For each use, take 1 liang of the beans and combine with 3 qian of plum-blossom borneol; grind into a powder.

Instructions for Use

Take 1 qian per dose, decocted with loofah vine after the first frost.

Plum Blossom Beans,Formula by Zhu Yugong, cited in Volume 3 of *Xian Nian Ji*.,

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