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Enhanced Tongyuan Erba Pill

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Enhanced Tongyuan Erba Pill,For dysentery, particularly cases of intermittent dysentery that have persisted for over a decade without resolution.

Formulas Name : Enhanced Tongyuan Erba Pill

Chinese Name : 加味通元二八丹

Drug Formulation

8 liang of Xuan Huanglian, 5 qian of Angelica sinensis root, 5 qian of red peony root, 5 qian of raw rehmannia root, 5 qian of southern chuanxiong, 1 liang of Sophora japonica flowers, 1 liang of Schizonepeta spikelets, and 1 liang of dried black plum pulp.

Source

From *Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 22.

Processing

Grind each of the above herbs into a fine powder. Take one male pig’s stomach, scrape it clean with a knife, then wash it thoroughly with wine. Fill the stomach with the herbal powders, sew it tightly shut with thread, line the bottom and top with Chinese chives, and steam it over mulberry wood fire for one day. Pound the mixture over a thousand times to form pills the size of a tung seed.

Benefits

For dysentery, particularly cases of intermittent dysentery that have persisted for over a decade without resolution.

Instructions for Use

Take 70–80 pills per dose, washed down with warm water; for intestinal wind and toxic stool causing bloody stools, take with whey soup; for internal organ toxicity, hemorrhoids, and fistulas, take 100 pills every morning, washed down with light tea. This formula is most effective when prepared after the Frost’s Descent solar term.

Enhanced Tongyuan Erba Pill,From *Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 22.,For dysentery, particularly cases of intermittent dysentery that have persisted for over a decade without resolution.

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