Eight-Ingredient Tonifying Pill

Eight-Ingredient Tonifying Pill,

Formulas Name : Eight-Ingredient Tonifying Pill

Chinese Name : 增益八味丸

Drug Formulation

Prepared Rehmannia Root (steamed 9 times with wine, sun-dried) 4 liang, Deer Antler (dehaired, roasted) 4 liang,Schisandra berries 4 liang, Chinese yam (large pieces, soaked in wine overnight), Chinese cornelian cherry (pitted) 2 liang, large aconite root 1 liang 2 qian (roasted), Achyranthes root (soaked in wine overnight) 2 liang, Poria cocos 1 liang 5 qian, Moutan bark (without the central wood) 1 liang 5 qian, Alisma rhizome (soaked in wine overnight) 1 liang 5 qian.

Source

From *Collected Effective Prescriptions of the Zhu Family*, Volume 8.

Processing

Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder. Take half a jin of genuine deer antler gelatin, chop it finely, and mix it with the powder in a silver or stone container using wine as a binder to form pills the size of a paulownia seed.

Instructions for Use

Take 50 pills per dose, on an empty stomach, with either warm wine or salted broth.

Eight-Ingredient Tonifying Pill,From *Collected Effective Prescriptions of the Zhu Family*, Volume 8.,

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