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Blood-Activating Pills,Wrist fracture.

Formulas Name : Blood-Activating Pills

Chinese Name : 活血丸

Drug Formulation

1 dou of mulberry twigs (from the southeast, as thick as a chicken’s egg; finely chopped, placed in a pot with rice vinegar, stir-fried until black while retaining their properties, then ground into powder); 3 sheng of male black beans (stir-fried with rice vinegar until charred while retaining their properties, then ground into powder); 400 chestnuts (burned with their shells on, soaked in rice vinegar, burned again, then soaked in vinegar once more, retaining their properties before being ground into powder); half liang of frankincense (finely ground).

Source

*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 145.

Processing

Grind the above ingredients into a powder. Mix with glutinous rice porridge cooked in vinegar and pound with a pestle 1,000 times to form pills the size of a marble. Dry in the shade, away from direct sunlight. Later, coat the pills with fine ink ground with rice vinegar, allow to dry, and place them in a cloth bag to hang in a well-ventilated area.

Benefits

Wrist fracture.

Instructions for Use

Take 1 pill per dose; decoct it together with frankincense wine until dissolved, then drink while warm. After taking, lie down facing the painful area. Take twice daily. The pain will subside on its own.

Blood-Activating Pills,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 145.,Wrist fracture.

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