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Enhanced Four-Spirit Pills,Abdominal pain and diarrhea at dawn.

Formulas Name : Enhanced Four-Spirit Pills

Chinese Name : 加味四神丸

Drug Formulation

Psoralea corylifolia (wine-fried) 6 liang, Evodia rutaecarpa (salt-fried) 3 liang, Schisandra chinensis (fried) 4 liang, Myristica fragrans (flour-coated, slow-roasted) 4 liang, Sichuan pepper (lightly roasted) 1 liang, raw sulfur 6 qian, jujubes 81, ginger (sliced) 6 liang.

Source

*Integrating Chinese and Western Medicine*, Volume 1.

Processing

First, boil the ginger for more than 10 boils; add the jujubes and boil together until thoroughly soft. Remove the ginger; grind the remaining herbs into a fine powder; mix with the jujube pulp to form pills the size of a Paulownia seed.

Benefits

Abdominal pain and diarrhea at dawn.

Enhanced Four-Spirit Pills,*Integrating Chinese and Western Medicine*, Volume 1.,Abdominal pain and diarrhea at dawn.

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