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Eight-Ingredient Psoralea Pill

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Eight-Ingredient Psoralea Pill,Frequent, watery urination.

Formulas Name : Eight-Ingredient Psoralea Pill

Chinese Name : 八味补骨脂丸

Drug Formulation

Psoralea (roasted) 1 liang, Morinda (core removed) 1 liang, Mulberry cuttlefish bone (roasted) 1 liang,Dodder Seed (soaked in wine for 3 days, then pounded separately) 1 liang, Achyranthes Root (soaked in wine, sliced, and roasted) 1 liang, Prepared Rehmannia Root (roasted) 1 liang, Dried Ginger (roasted) half a liang, Trifoliate Orange Peel (roasted with wheat bran, pith removed) 3 fen.

Source

*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 96.

Processing

Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder; mix with a paste made from wine and boiled wheat flour to form pills the size of a tung tree seed.

Benefits

Frequent, watery urination.

Instructions for Use

Take 20 pills per dose on an empty stomach or before meals, washed down with warm wine; millet-grain-sized drinks may also be used.

Eight-Ingredient Psoralea Pill,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 96.,Frequent, watery urination.

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