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Five-Spice Toxin-Expelling Pills

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Five-Spice Toxin-Expelling Pills,For boils, abscesses, and all types of unexplained swellings and toxic lesions that are firm and robust at the onset.

Formulas Name : Five-Spice Toxin-Expelling Pills

Chinese Name : 五香追毒丸

Drug Formulation

Laojun’s Beard, unroasted cloves, bitter cloves (i.e., melon stems), defatted frankincense, defatted myrrh, croton seed powder, Guangxi frankincense, black-roasted burdock seeds, superior agarwood, dragon’s blood, cinnabar, and toad venom (dissolved separately in alcohol)—each in equal parts.

Source

From *Extraordinary Formulas Beyond Surgical Prescriptions*, Volume 1.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder. Mix the dissolved toad venom with aged honey to form pills the size of a water lily seed, and coat them with cinnabar.

Benefits

For boils, abscesses, and all types of unexplained swellings and toxic lesions that are firm and robust at the onset.

Instructions for Use

Take 1 or 2 pills per dose, dissolved in Shaoxing wine on an empty stomach or before meals. After 2–3 episodes of diarrhea, replenish with cold congee; the toxin will then dissipate.

Five-Spice Toxin-Expelling Pills,From *Extraordinary Formulas Beyond Surgical Prescriptions*, Volume 1.,For boils, abscesses, and all types of unexplained swellings and toxic lesions that are firm and robust at the onset.

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