Cardamom and Pork Liver Pills

Cardamom and Pork Liver Pills,For consumptive conditions with diarrhea and dysentery, accompanied by disharmony of the spleen and stomach and loss of appetite.

Formulas Name : Cardamom and Pork Liver Pills

Chinese Name : 肉豆蔻猪肝丸

Drug Formulation

Cardamom 1 liang (shelled), wild cardamom 1 liang (peeled), chela 2 liang (roasted, using the peel), cardamom 1 liang (peeled), aged tangerine peel 1 liang (half raw, half roasted).

Source

From *Shenghui*, Volume 28.

Processing

Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder. Take one leaf of pork liver, weighing 4 liang or more, and slice it into pieces. Pound 10 black plums into a paste, then soak the pork liver in this paste mixed with rice washing water overnight. Afterward, wrap the liver in damp paper and bake it until cooked. Add a small amount of vinegar, then grind the mixture into a paste. Mix in the prepared herbal powder and form into pills the size of a Paulownia seed.

Benefits

For consumptive conditions with diarrhea and dysentery, accompanied by disharmony of the spleen and stomach and loss of appetite.

Instructions for Use

Take 30 pills each time, on an empty stomach or before meals, washed down with congee broth.

Cardamom and Pork Liver Pills,From *Shenghui*, Volume 28.,For consumptive conditions with diarrhea and dysentery, accompanied by disharmony of the spleen and stomach and loss of appetite.

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