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Fu Can Pills,For various forms of malnutrition, diarrhea, dysentery, and convulsions in children that have not healed for a long time; as well as for emaciation and frailty after weaning that gradually worsen to the point of being untreatable.

Formulas Name : Fu Can Pills

Chinese Name : 复蚕丸

Drug Formulation

1 silkworm (thread through its head, air-dry, and use only the rear section containing feces; grind into a fine powder), 3 fen of cinnabar (ground and washed with water), 3 zi of musk (ground), 3.5 qian of black pepper, 3.5 qian of realgar (ground and washed with water), and 3.5 qian of Coptis chinensis.

Source

*General Essentials of Health* (Vol. 11).

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder. Take a piece of freshly steamed millet rice, wrap it in clay, and bake it until soft. Extract the soft center along with the medicine, and form it into pills the size of mung beans.

Benefits

For various forms of malnutrition, diarrhea, dysentery, and convulsions in children that have not healed for a long time; as well as for emaciation and frailty after weaning that gradually worsen to the point of being untreatable.

Instructions for Use

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

Fu Can Pills,*General Essentials of Health* (Vol. 11).,For various forms of malnutrition, diarrhea, dysentery, and convulsions in children that have not healed for a long time; as well as for emaciation and frailty after weaning that gradually worsen to the point of being untreatable.

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