Pig Stomach Pill

Pig Stomach Pill,For children suffering from wasting disease, night sweats, excessive fatigue, and weakness, with worms in the stool.

Formulas Name : Pig Stomach Pill

Chinese Name : 猪肚丹

Drug Formulation

1 liang Sichuan Coptis (thoroughly cleaned), 1 liang Wood Fragrance, 1 liang Chinese Coptis, half a liang Cardamom, half a liang White Wild Oat, half a liang Aloe, half a liang Notopterygium, half a liang Soft-shelled Turtle Carapace (roasted with ghee, with frills removed).

Source

Formula by Zhang Huan, cited in *The New Book on the Care of Infants*, Volume 24.

Processing

Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder. Take one wild boar’s stomach, wash and scrape it clean. First, stuff 2 liang of high-quality, fragrant Angelica dahurica into the stomach and steam until very tender. Remove the Angelica dahurica and discard it, then stuff the mixture of herbs into the stomach, sew it closed, and steam again until it becomes as soft as mud. Remove it. Pound it together with the pig’s stomach into a paste, then form it into pills the size of millet or foxtail millet.

Benefits

For children suffering from wasting disease, night sweats, excessive fatigue, and weakness, with worms in the stool.

Instructions for Use

Take 10 pills at a time, washed down with rice water, at any time of day.

Pig Stomach Pill,Formula by Zhang Huan, cited in *The New Book on the Care of Infants*, Volume 24.,For children suffering from wasting disease, night sweats, excessive fatigue, and weakness, with worms in the stool.

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