Da Fu Decoction，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 89.，For consumptive weakness, emaciation, and cough.
Da Fu Decoction
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Formulas Name : Da Fu Decoction
Chinese Name : 大腹饮
Drug Formulation
2 Da Fu (with skin, roasted, and coarsely chopped), 2 pieces of Chela bark, 1 fen of aged tangerine peel (white pith removed, stir-fried), 1 pig’s gallbladder, and 1 liang of white peach bark.
Source
*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 89.
Benefits
For consumptive weakness, emaciation, and cough.
Instructions for Use
Take the above 5 ingredients (excluding the gallbladder) and grind them into a coarse powder. For each dose, take 5 qian of the powder, soak it overnight in 1.5 zhan of a young boy’s urine, then at dawn, decoct it down to 5 fen, strain out the residue, break open the gallbladder, mix the contents with the decoction, and take it.
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Da Fu Decoction,For consumptive weakness, emaciation, and cough.