Great Warming the Middle Pills，Formula by Danxi, cited in Volume 6 of *Six Essentials of Medicine: Compilation of Treatment Methods*.，For chronic jaundice.
Great Warming the Middle Pills
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Formulas Name : Great Warming the Middle Pills
Chinese Name : 大温中丸
Drug Formulation
Cyperus rotundus (soaked in vinegar) 1 jin (1 night in spring and summer; 2 nights in autumn and winter), Glycyrrhiza 2 liang, Cinnabar (roasted until red, quenched in vinegar 7 times) 1 liang, Magnolia officinalis (processed with ginger) 5 liang, Citrus reticulata peel 5 liang, Crataegus pinnatifida 5 liang, Cinnamomum cassia 5 liang (soaked in rice wash), Atractylodes macrocephala 2 liang,Poria 2 liang, Green Tangerine Peel 6 liang, Peony Root 5 liang, Coptis 5 liang, Acorus 5 liang, Atractylodes 5 liang, Sophora Root 5 liang.
Source
Formula by Danxi, cited in Volume 6 of *Six Essentials of Medicine: Compilation of Treatment Methods*.
Processing
Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder and form into pills the size of a Paulownia seed using vinegar.
Benefits
For chronic jaundice.
Instructions for Use
If the patient is sallow and emaciated with protruding tendons and bones and has a full pulse, take 50–60 pills with rice water; if the patient is plump and pale with a deficient pulse, take 30–40 pills with Atractylodes macrocephala decoction. After 7 days of treatment, the patient will feel warmth and coolness in the palms and notice a reddish tinge inside the lips; recovery will occur within half a month.
Note
Avoid all greasy, raw, cold, and hard-to-digest foods such as meat, noodles, chicken, goose, mutton, duck, and glutinous rice dumplings.
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Great Warming the Middle Pills,For chronic jaundice.