Garlic-Red Pills

Garlic-Red Pills,Spleen stagnation. Abdominal distension like a drum, with prominent blue veins, making it impossible to sit or lie down.

Formulas Name : Garlic-Red Pills

Chinese Name : 蒜红丸

Drug Formulation

Select 1 liang of cloves, 1 liang of frankincense, 1 liang of agarwood, 1 liang of areca nut, 1 liang of green tangerine peel (white pith removed), 1 liang of aged tangerine peel (white pith removed), 1 liang of cardamom, 1 liang of processed Pongam, 1 liang of pharbitis, 1 liang of grass fruit, 1 qian of nutmeg (coated in flour and roasted),1 qian of powdered gypsum, half liang of white Poria (with black skin removed), half liang of ginseng, and 200 cloves of garlic (half used raw, half steamed until tender).

Source

Formula cited from *Hua Gong Shi Fang* in Volume 2 of *Bai Yi*.

Processing

Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder. Finely grind the raw and cooked garlic, squeeze the juice from the raw garlic using a twisted piece of raw silk, and immediately use the powder to form pills the size of a Paulownia seed.

Benefits

Spleen stagnation. Abdominal distension like a drum, with prominent blue veins, making it impossible to sit or lie down.

Instructions for Use

Take 5–15 pills per dose, washed down with lightly salted water after a meal.

Note

Avoid salty, sour, fish, vinegar, tea, soy sauce, pickled chicken and duck, raw and cold foods, and offal from horses and cattle; consume only plain white rice porridge for 100 days.

Garlic-Red Pills,Formula cited from *Hua Gong Shi Fang* in Volume 2 of *Bai Yi*.,Spleen stagnation. Abdominal distension like a drum, with prominent blue veins, making it impossible to sit or lie down.

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