Zhishi-Banxia Pills

Zhishi-Banxia Pills,

Formulas Name : Zhishi-Banxia Pills

Chinese Name : 枳实半夏丸

Drug Formulation

1 liang of Zhi Shi (stir-fried with wheat bran until yellow, seeds removed), 1.5 liang of Ban Xia (washed 7 times in boiling water, sliced, and dried in an oven), 3 fen of Bai Zhu, half a liang of Peng E Zhu, and 1 fen of Bai Fu Ling (peeled).

Source

From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 5.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder. Use ginger juice to cook a wheat flour paste, then shape into pills the size of a Paulownia seed.

Instructions for Use

Take 60–70 pills at a time, washed down with aged tangerine peel decoction, at any time of day.

Zhishi-Banxia Pills,From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 5.,

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