Broken-Plate Turtle Pills,*Formulas and Ingredients of Traditional Chinese Medicine*.,For phlegm adhering to the bones and scrofula nodules.
Broken-Plate Turtle Pills
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Formulas Name : Broken-Plate Turtle Pills
Chinese Name : 断版龟丸
Drug Formulation
1 snake-eating turtle (approximately 1 jin).
Source
*Formulas and Ingredients of Traditional Chinese Medicine*.
Processing
Tie the snake-devouring turtle with lead wire, seal it with mud, and use 5 jin of charcoal to calcine it for 3 hours, yielding 4 liang of ash. Grind the ash into a fine powder, mix it with 3 liang 2 qian of white honey (thoroughly refined) and 1 liang 2 qian of glutinous rice flour, and knead into pills the size of a Paulownia seed; this yields approximately 7 liang 4 qian.
Benefits
For phlegm adhering to the bones and scrofula nodules.
Instructions for Use
Take 1 qian per dose; reduce to half for children. Take with hot water, 3 times daily.
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Broken-Plate Turtle Pills,For phlegm adhering to the bones and scrofula nodules.