Cotton-Wrapped Pills

Cotton-Wrapped Pills,Malaria.

Formulas Name : Cotton-Wrapped Pills

Chinese Name : 绵兖丸

Drug Formulation

Sulfur, Cinnamomum cassia, croton seed, white alum, and starch flower—all in equal parts.

Source

*Ji Feng*, Volume 14.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder; on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, mix with palm kernels, then pound in a mortar 1,000 times to form pills the size of a paulownia seed, and air-dry in the shade.

Benefits

Malaria.

Instructions for Use

Regardless of age, including the elderly, children, and pregnant women, and regardless of the day of the month, for malaria, wrap one pill in a piece of cotton; place it in the left ear for men and the right ear for women at the beginning of the fifth watch, and remove it after four days.

Cotton-Wrapped Pills,*Ji Feng*, Volume 14.,Malaria.

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