Chaihu Decoction Pills，*Shenghui*, Volume 27.，For consumptive diseases with bone heat, restless and painful joints, and restlessness and oppression in the chest and diaphragm.
Chaihu Decoction Pills
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Formulas Name : Chaihu Decoction Pills
Chinese Name : 柴胡煎丸
Drug Formulation
1.5 liang of Bupleurum (stems removed), 1 liang of rhinoceros horn shavings, 1 liang of Anemarrhena, 1 liang of Coptis, 1 liang of Platycodon (root base removed), 1 liang of Sichuan Cimicifuga, 1 liang of Lycium bark, 1 liang of Scutellaria,1 liang of Terminalia chebula bark, 1 Trichosanthes fruit, 2 liang of softshell turtle shell (coated with vinegar and roasted until slightly yellow; remove the frills), 3 fen of licorice (roasted until slightly red; coarsely chopped), 3 fen of red Poria, and 3 fen of ginseng (root tip removed).
Source
*Shenghui*, Volume 27.
Processing
Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder. Extract the juice from 5 pig gallbladders and combine it with half a jin of honey; mix thoroughly. Simmer over low heat until it becomes a thick paste, then mix with the powdered medicine to form pills the size of a tung tree seed.
Benefits
For consumptive diseases with bone heat, restless and painful joints, and restlessness and oppression in the chest and diaphragm.
Instructions for Use
Take 20 pills per dose after a meal, washed down with a decoction of black plum and urine.
Note
Avoid amaranth.
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Chaihu Decoction Pills,For consumptive diseases with bone heat, restless and painful joints, and restlessness and oppression in the chest and diaphragm.