Five-Steamed Pills

Five-Steamed Pills,Five-Steam Formula for Consumption.

Formulas Name : Five-Steamed Pills

Chinese Name : 五蒸丸

Drug Formulation

5 fen of black plum, 5 fen of chicken bone (one version specifies stork bone), 5 fen of purple aster, 5 fen of peony root, 5 fen of rhubarb, 5 fen of scutellaria root, 5 fen of asarum, 4 fen of anemarrhena rhizome, 1 fen of refined alum, 1 fen of trichosanthes fruit, 2 fen of cinnamon bark (one version omits cinnamon bark).

Source

Quoted from *Gujin Luyan* in Volume 13 of *Wai Tai*.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills the size of a paulownia seed.

Benefits

Five-Steam Formula for Consumption.

Instructions for Use

Take 10 pills per dose, washed down with liquid, twice daily.

Note

Avoid raw scallions and raw vegetables.

Five-Steamed Pills,Quoted from *Gujin Luyan* in Volume 13 of *Wai Tai*.,Five-Steam Formula for Consumption.

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