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