Eight-Ingredient Reduced Pills

Eight-Ingredient Reduced Pills,For eye disorders.

Formulas Name : Eight-Ingredient Reduced Pills

Chinese Name : 八减丸

Drug Formulation

8 liang of red pepper, 7 liang of sweet chrysanthemum flowers, 5 liang of large aconite root, 5 liang of inula flowers, 4 liang of Atractylodes lancea (soaked in rice water, black skin removed), 3 liang of cassia seeds, 2 liang of Ligusticum wallichii, 1 liang of purple morinda root (core removed).

Source

From *Collected Medical Formulas*, Volume 66, citing *Divine and Ingenious Formulas for Complete Cure*.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder, mix with date pulp, and pound 300–500 times with a pestle; form into pills the size of a paulownia seed.

Benefits

For eye disorders.

Instructions for Use

Take 30 pills per dose with salted water before meals. Gradually increase the dose to 40 pills.

Eight-Ingredient Reduced Pills,From *Collected Medical Formulas*, Volume 66, citing *Divine and Ingenious Formulas for Complete Cure*.,For eye disorders.

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