Formulas Name : Dingdou Pills
Chinese Name : 丁豆丸
Cardamom (baked in flour) and cloves (unroasted), each in equal parts.
From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 5.
Grind the ingredients into a fine powder; mix with jujube pulp boiled in ginger juice to form pills the size of small red beans.
Take 30–40 pills per dose, washed down with rice water before meals.
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