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Ginger-Rice Powder,For deficiency of spleen and stomach qi, abdominal distension, loose stools, and general debility; vomiting upon taking warming medications; and inability to retain food or drink.

Formulas Name : Ginger-Rice Powder

Chinese Name : 姜米散

Drug Formulation

1 sheng aged rice (soak the rice in the juice extracted from 2 jin of fresh ginger, bake, pound, sift into a powder, and roast until yellow); 3 cardamom pods (shelled); 10 wild cardamom pods (roasted, peeled); 1 liang aged tangerine peel (white pith removed, roasted); 1 liang licorice (roasted, coarsely chopped); 1 liang burnt salt (ground).

Source

*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 74.

Processing

Grind the above ingredients into a powder.

Benefits

For deficiency of spleen and stomach qi, abdominal distension, loose stools, and general debility; vomiting upon taking warming medications; and inability to retain food or drink.

Instructions for Use

Take 2 qian per dose, dissolved in boiling water; take at any time.

Ginger-Rice Powder,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 74.,For deficiency of spleen and stomach qi, abdominal distension, loose stools, and general debility; vomiting upon taking warming medications; and inability to retain food or drink.

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