Eight-Ingredient Cardamom Seed Powder，Formula by Xu Renze, cited in Volume 25 of *Wai Tai*.，For cases of intestinal dysentery, where stools are either watery or thick, resembling pus, and each bowel movement is extremely slippery, with the condition persisting for a long time.
Eight-Ingredient Cardamom Seed Powder
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Formulas Name : Eight-Ingredient Cardamom Seed Powder
Chinese Name : 豆蔻子八味散
Drug Formulation
Cardamom seeds 3 liang, cloves 3 liang, Asarum 4 liang, Aconite root (roasted) 4 liang, dried ginger 4 liang, ginseng 5 liang, astragalus 5 liang, cinnabar 6 liang.
Source
Formula by Xu Renze, cited in Volume 25 of *Wai Tai*.
Processing
Grind the above ingredients into a powder.
Benefits
For cases of intestinal dysentery, where stools are either watery or thick, resembling pus, and each bowel movement is extremely slippery, with the condition persisting for a long time.
Instructions for Use
Administer with water; start with one fangcun bi, gradually increasing to 2–3 bi, twice daily.
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Eight-Ingredient Cardamom Seed Powder,For cases of intestinal dysentery, where stools are either watery or thick, resembling pus, and each bowel movement is extremely slippery, with the condition persisting for a long time.