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Grain-Digesting Pill

Formulas Name : Grain-Digesting Pill

Chinese Name : 消谷丹

Drug Formulation

Cardamom (wrapped in flour and slow-roasted), Cinnamon Bark (coarse bark removed, not exposed to fire), Soapberry Yellow, Cloves (not exposed to fire), Poria (peeled), Wood Fragrance (not exposed to fire),Chebulic Myrobalan pulp, Atractylodes macrocephala (roasted with wheat bran), Ginseng (root base removed), White Ginger (roasted and washed), Dried Tangerine Peel, Shenqu (roasted), Magnolia officinalis (processed with ginger overnight, then roasted), Wheat bran (roasted), Piper longum (washed), and Galangal (roasted)—each in equal parts.

Source

From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 5.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills the size of a marble.

Instructions for Use

Take 1 pill per dose, chewed and swallowed with ginger tea.

Grain-Digesting Pill,From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 5.,

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