Shengling Pills

Shengling Pills,Edema.

Formulas Name : Shengling Pills

Chinese Name : 圣灵丸

Drug Formulation

Woody Poria (without black bark) 1 liang, Beijing-style Curcuma (peeled) 1 liang, Green Tangerine Peel (without pith) 1 liang, White Poria (peeled) 1 liang, White Atractylodes 1 liang, Barley Bran 1 liang, Sichuan White Ginger 3 qian, Black Pharbitis 0.5 liang (roasted until yellow), Alisma 1 liang.

Source

From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 129), citing *Wu’s Collection of Proven Formulas*.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder, form into pills the size of a Paulownia seed using vinegar paste, and coat with cinnabar.

Benefits

Edema.

Instructions for Use

If there is swelling on the face and around the eyes in the morning, and the limbs are swollen by the hour of Si, prepare a decoction of white mulberry bark and take 15 pills with it before bedtime; if the head, face, feet, and hands are not swollen, but only the abdomen is swollen, this should be divided into two types of qi syndromes: if the abdomen is blackish, it is called “spleen-stomach qi gu”; if the abdomen is yellowish and blue veins are visible on the belly, it is called “gu qi.” Prepare a decoction of Akebia stem and take 20 pills after a meal.

Note

Avoid salt, soy sauce, wheat flour, glutinous rice, shrimp and crab, scaleless fish, pheasant, duck, beef, mutton, and pork.

Shengling Pills,From *Collected Medical Formulas* (Vol. 129), citing *Wu’s Collection of Proven Formulas*.,Edema.

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