Deer Antler and Cypress Root Essence-Nourishing Pills，*Danxi’s Heart Methods with Appendices*, Volume 19.，Deficiency syndromes.
Deer Antler and Cypress Root Essence-Nourishing Pills
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Formulas Name : Deer Antler and Cypress Root Essence-Nourishing Pills
Chinese Name : 鹿柏固本丸
Drug Formulation
Half a jin of deer antler powder (use fresh antlers, cut into one-cun pieces, place in a cloth bag and soak in running water for 7 days, then boil in a clay pot. For every one jin of antler, add half a jin of beeswax; remove the core and cover with one hu of dew wine; bring to a boil separately, continuously adding running water to prevent it from running dry;After twelve hours of sufficient fire from mulberry wood, the antlers will be soft. Use a bamboo knife to cut off the black skin, take the white part, and pound it finely into a fine powder), 1 jin of Phellodendron bark (processed once with wine, three times with milk, and once with salted water), 4 liang of Asparagus root (soaked in wine), 4 liang of Ophiopogon root (soaked in wine), 4 liang of raw Rehmannia root (washed with wine and soaked), and 4 liang of prepared Rehmannia root (washed with wine and soaked).
Source
*Danxi’s Heart Methods with Appendices*, Volume 19.
Processing
Grind the ingredients into a fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills the size of a tung tree seed.
Benefits
Deficiency syndromes.
Instructions for Use
Take 50–60 pills per dose, washed down with warm wine; for those who do not drink alcohol, take with plain hot water.
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Deer Antler and Cypress Root Essence-Nourishing Pills,Deficiency syndromes.