Ginseng and Soft-Shelled Turtle Carapace Pills，*Formulae of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 9 (Newly Added Formulas of the Chunyou Era).，For all cases of deficiency in women, including emaciation and wasting of the flesh, night sweats, palpitations, coughing, shortness of breath, irregular menstruation, or alternating chills and fever, and loss of appetite.
Ginseng and Soft-Shelled Turtle Carapace Pills
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Formulas Name : Ginseng and Soft-Shelled Turtle Carapace Pills
Chinese Name : 人参鳖甲丸
Drug Formulation
Apricot kernels (soaked in hot water, peeled and de-tipped, then stir-fried) 1 liang; Ginseng 1 liang; Angelica sinensis (washed and dried) 1 liang; Red peony root 1 liang; Licorice (roasted) 1 liang; Bupleurum (stems removed) 1 liang;Platycodon root (stem removed) 1 liang, Lycium bark 1 fen, Coptis chinensis (stems removed) 1 fen, Coptis teeta 1 fen, Cinnamon bark (coarse outer bark removed) half a liang, Wood fragrant half a liang, Musk (ground separately) half a fen, Turtle shell 1 piece (weighing 2 liang; roast with vinegar until yellow).
Source
*Formulae of the Imperial Bureau*, Volume 9 (Newly Added Formulas of the Chunyou Era).
Processing
Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder. Take 1 jin of Artemisia annua, grind it into a paste, and squeeze out the juice. Combine this with 5 sheng of children’s urine and 5 sheng of wine, and simmer until the volume is reduced to 2 sheng or less. Next, add 3 liang of genuine ghee and 3 liang of white sand honey, and simmer again until it forms a paste. Allow it to cool, then mix in the powdered medicinal ingredients, blending thoroughly to form pills the size of a Paulownia seed.
Benefits
For all cases of deficiency in women, including emaciation and wasting of the flesh, night sweats, palpitations, coughing, shortness of breath, irregular menstruation, or alternating chills and fever, and loss of appetite.
Instructions for Use
Take 50 pills at a time, washed down with warm wine, at any time of day.
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Ginseng and Soft-Shelled Turtle Carapace Pills,For all cases of deficiency in women, including emaciation and wasting of the flesh, night sweats, palpitations, coughing, shortness of breath, irregular menstruation, or alternating chills and fever, and loss of appetite.