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Eight-Ingredient Pill for Regulating Menstruation

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Eight-Ingredient Pill for Regulating Menstruation

Formulas Name : Eight-Ingredient Pill for Regulating Menstruation

Chinese Name : 调经八物丸

Drug Formulation

Angelica sinensis (washed with wine) 2 liang, Southern Ligusticum (soaked in salted water, sliced) 1 liang, White Peony Root (stir-fried with wine) 1 liang 5 qian, Prepared Rehmannia (soaked in wine) 2 liang, Poria cocos (peeled) 1 liang, Atractylodes macrocephala (soaked in rice water, baked) 2 liang,Citrus Peel (washed in salted water, sun-dried) 1 liang, Scutellaria Baicalensis (wine-fried) 1 liang, Peony Bark 1 liang, Corydalis (wine-fried) 1 liang.

Source

From *Hui Chun*, Volume 6.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder, mix with refined honey, and form into pills the size of a Paulownia seed.

Instructions for Use

Take 80–90 pills per dose, taken on an empty stomach with lightly salted water; during the cold months, take with wine.

Eight-Ingredient Pill for Regulating Menstruation,From *Hui Chun*, Volume 6.,

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