Eight-Ingredient Cinnamon-Heart Pills，*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 56.，For cold-induced chest pain with inability to eat.
Eight-Ingredient Cinnamon-Heart Pills
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Formulas Name : Eight-Ingredient Cinnamon-Heart Pills
Chinese Name : 八味桂心丸
Drug Formulation
Cinnamon Bark (with coarse bark removed) 1 liang and a half; Platycodon Root (chopped, stir-fried) 3 fen; Evodia Fruit (soaked in boiling water, then roasted) 3 fen; Ginseng 3 fen; Atractylodes Macrocephala 3 fen; Galangal 3 fen; Aged Tangerine Peel (soaked in boiling water, white pith removed, then roasted) half a liang; Angelica Root (sliced, roasted) 1 liang.
Source
*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 56.
Processing
Grind the ingredients into a fine powder, mix with refined honey, and form into pills the size of small beans.
Benefits
For cold-induced chest pain with inability to eat.
Instructions for Use
Take 10 pills per dose, washed down with warm wine; take one dose at noon and one before bedtime. Gradually increase the dose to 15 or 20 pills.
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Eight-Ingredient Cinnamon-Heart Pills,For cold-induced chest pain with inability to eat.