Chicken Meat Decoction Pills，From *The New Book on the Care of Infants* (Volume 26), citing *Family Treasures*.，For children suffering from chronic wasting disease, bone-consuming fever, night sweats, emaciation, abdominal distension, sallow complexion, and failure to gain weight despite eating.
Chicken Meat Decoction Pills
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Formulas Name : Chicken Meat Decoction Pills
Chinese Name : 鸡肉煎丸
Drug Formulation
2 liang of Coptis, 1 liang of Silver Bupleurum, half a liang of Cnidium, half a liang of Sichuan Cnidium, 1 liang of purified Gentiana, 1 liang of Anemarrhena, 1 liang of Evodia, and 1 liang of Scutellaria.
Source
From *The New Book on the Care of Infants* (Volume 26), citing *Family Treasures*.
Processing
Grind the above ingredients into a powder. Take one yellow female chicken weighing one jin; feed it exclusively on hemp seeds for five days. Make an incision in the hindquarters, remove the intestines and entrails, wash the chicken, pat it dry, stuff it with the medicine, and sew it closed with thread.Spread black beans three cun thick on the bottom of a steamer; place the chicken on top and around the sides, then wrap it with more beans. Steam at sunrise and remove the medicine at dusk. Grind the cleaned chicken meat with the medicine until dry, then mix with a wine paste to form pills the size of hemp seeds or mung beans.
Benefits
For children suffering from chronic wasting disease, bone-consuming fever, night sweats, emaciation, abdominal distension, sallow complexion, and failure to gain weight despite eating.
Instructions for Use
Take 10–20 pills per dose on an empty stomach, washed down with Ophiopogon Decoction. For those 15 years of age and older, take with warm wine.
Note
Avoid pork.
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Chicken Meat Decoction Pills,For children suffering from chronic wasting disease, bone-consuming fever, night sweats, emaciation, abdominal distension, sallow complexion, and failure to gain weight despite eating.