Five Treasures Pills

Five Treasures Pills,For food stagnation caused by alcohol or food. For abdominal distension due to malnutrition.

Formulas Name : Five Treasures Pills

Chinese Name : 五珍丸

Drug Formulation

Green tangerine peel (with white pith intact, stir-fried until dark yellow) 1 liang; dried ginger (roasted, retaining some raw quality) 1 liang; Northern Wulingzhi 1 liang; Pong’e Zhu 1 liang.

Source

From *Direct Pointers on Pediatrics*, Volume 3.

Processing

Grind the above ingredients into a powder and mix thoroughly. Weigh 1 liang of the powder, then take the flesh of a fat croton seed, press it with a stone to remove half the oil, and weigh 1 qian. Grind it finely, mix it with the powder, and roll it into pills the size of a sesame seed using glutinous rice.

Benefits

For food stagnation caused by alcohol or food. For abdominal distension due to malnutrition.

Instructions for Use

Take 3–5 pills per dose, washed down with rice soup; take between meals when neither hungry nor full.

Five Treasures Pills,From *Direct Pointers on Pediatrics*, Volume 3.,For food stagnation caused by alcohol or food. For abdominal distension due to malnutrition.

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