Five-Ingredient Powder with Soft-Shelled Turtle Carapace

Five-Ingredient Powder with Soft-Shelled Turtle Carapace,Malaria. Headache, aching of bones and muscles, cold extremities, dryness of the mouth, nose, throat, and tongue, a strong desire to drink water, bristling hair, stiffness of the lower back and spine with a tendency to arch backward, red urine; characterized by chills followed by fever, occurring at regular intervals, and lasting for more than 7 days.

Formulas Name : Five-Ingredient Powder with Soft-Shelled Turtle Carapace

Chinese Name : 鳖甲五味散

Drug Formulation

3 liang of softshell turtle shell (raw), 2 liang of Changshan, 2 liang of licorice (roasted), 2 liang of pine lichen, and 1 liang of cinnamon bark.

Source

From *Formulas of Xu Renze*, cited in Volume 5 of *Wai Tai*.

Processing

Grind the above ingredients into a powder.

Benefits

Malaria. Headache, aching of bones and muscles, cold extremities, dryness of the mouth, nose, throat, and tongue, a strong desire to drink water, bristling hair, stiffness of the lower back and spine with a tendency to arch backward, red urine; characterized by chills followed by fever, occurring at regular intervals, and lasting for more than 7 days.

Instructions for Use

Take one fangcun bi per dose, taken with boiled black plum decoction, twice daily. Gradually increase the dose until vomiting occurs.

Note

Avoid Chinese amaranth, raw scallions, raw cabbage, seaweed, and Chinese mustard greens.

Five-Ingredient Powder with Soft-Shelled Turtle Carapace,From *Formulas of Xu Renze*, cited in Volume 5 of *Wai Tai*.,Malaria. Headache, aching of bones and muscles, cold extremities, dryness of the mouth, nose, throat, and tongue, a strong desire to drink water, bristling hair, stiffness of the lower back and spine with a tendency to arch backward, red urine; characterized by chills followed by fever, occurring at regular intervals, and lasting for more than 7 days.

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