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Clear-Steamed Dan,For consumptive cough and bone-consuming fever.

Formulas Name : Clear-Steamed Dan

Chinese Name : 清蒸丹

Drug Formulation

1 Ziheche (wash off the purple blood, place in a jar with 1 cup of wine and 1 qian of Sichuan pepper; seal the jar and boil, then remove the pepper), 1 liang 5 qian of Qiushi, and Ren Zhong Bai (collected over many years from a chamber pot; add 30 jujubes and fill with wine to 8 fen;sealed with salt mud, and calcined over charcoal; once the wine has evaporated by three fen, reseal the opening and continue calcining over a low charcoal fire overnight; remove the dates and retain the white residue) 1 liang and a half, Schisandra berries 1 liang, ginseng 2 liang and a half, human milk powder 2 liang and a half, donkey-hide gelatin beads 1 liang and 5 qian, Lycium bark 1 liang and 5 qian, softshell turtle shell (roasted with vinegar) 1 liang and 5 qian, and silver柴胡 1 liang and a half.

Source

*Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 11.

Processing

Boil Stemon, Artemisia annua, children’s urine, and wine together to form a paste, then shape into pills.

Benefits

For consumptive cough and bone-consuming fever.

Instructions for Use

Take 4 qian per dose.

Clear-Steamed Dan,*Songya Zunsheng*, Volume 11.,For consumptive cough and bone-consuming fever.

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