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Fragrant Toad Pills,For various forms of wasting disease in children.

Formulas Name : Fragrant Toad Pills

Chinese Name : 香蟾丸

Drug Formulation

Softshell Turtle Carapace (remove frills, roast with vinegar until yellow) 1 liang; Toad (roast until yellow) 1 liang; Chebulic Myrobalan (roasted, remove pulp) 1 liang; Wood Fragrance 1 liang; Aloe (ground) half a liang; Iron Powder (ground) half a liang; Realgar (ground to a fine powder); Coptis (Huanglian) half a liang; Musk 2 fen (ground).

Source

From *General Essentials of Health*, Volume 12.

Processing

Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder; mix with wheat flour paste to form pills the size of a millet seed.

Benefits

For various forms of wasting disease in children.

Instructions for Use

Take 10 pills per dose, washed down with rice water. For severely emaciated patients, recovery is achieved within 5–7 doses.

Fragrant Toad Pills,From *General Essentials of Health*, Volume 12.,For various forms of wasting disease in children.

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