Four Treasures Pill

Four Treasures Pill,For various forms of wasting disease, emaciation, dry and yellow hair, and sores around the mouth and nose.

Formulas Name : Four Treasures Pill

Chinese Name : 四珍丹

Drug Formulation

1 dried giant toad (remove the four legs; insert half a liang of Hu Huanglian into its abdomen; sew it closed with thread; wrap it in damp paper; seal with mud and burn until red-hot); half a liang of aloe vera; 1 fen of musk.

Source

Formula by Zhang Huan, cited in Volume 26 of *The New Book on the Care of Infants*.

Processing

Grind into a paste with wheat flour and form into pills the size of millet grains.

Benefits

For various forms of wasting disease, emaciation, dry and yellow hair, and sores around the mouth and nose.

Instructions for Use

Take 5–7 pills per dose, washed down with congee.

Four Treasures Pill,Formula by Zhang Huan, cited in Volume 26 of *The New Book on the Care of Infants*.,For various forms of wasting disease, emaciation, dry and yellow hair, and sores around the mouth and nose.

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