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Four-Color Pills,For green-colored diarrhea.

Formulas Name : Four-Color Pills

Chinese Name : 四色丸

Drug Formulation

Sulfur and Magnolia Bark (coarse bark removed, processed with ginger), each in equal parts.

Source

*General Essentials of Health*, Volume 10.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder, mix with a paste to form pills the size of a millet seed.

Benefits

For green-colored diarrhea.

Instructions for Use

Take 50 pills at a time, washed down with rice water, at any time of day.

Four-Color Pills,*General Essentials of Health*, Volume 10.,For green-colored diarrhea.

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