Gui Ming Wan

Gui Ming Wan,For cold qi in the spleen and stomach, pain in the navel and abdomen radiating to the heart, and chronic diarrhea or dysentery that has not responded to other treatments.

Formulas Name : Gui Ming Wan

Chinese Name : 归命丸

Drug Formulation

Half a liang of green tangerine peel (soaked in hot water, white pith removed, and roasted), half a liang of cinnamon bark (coarse outer bark removed), half a liang of pinellia (washed 7 times to remove slipperiness, then roasted), half a liang of aconite root (skin and pith removed), half a liang of processed aconite root (skin and pith removed), half a liang of dried ginger,half liang of sulfur (imported), 2 pieces of betel nut (chopped), 49 grains of black pepper, and 2 pieces of nutmeg (shelled).

Source

*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 187.

Processing

Grind all the above ingredients into a fine powder; grind the sulfur separately until extremely fine, then mix it evenly into the other powders. Combine with rice vinegar and wheat flour paste, adding a small amount of salt, and form into pills the size of mung beans.

Benefits

For cold qi in the spleen and stomach, pain in the navel and abdomen radiating to the heart, and chronic diarrhea or dysentery that has not responded to other treatments.

Instructions for Use

Take 15 pills each time on an empty stomach with warm wine; for severe, life-threatening cases, take 20 pills with a decoction of salt and mugwort.

Gui Ming Wan,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 187.,For cold qi in the spleen and stomach, pain in the navel and abdomen radiating to the heart, and chronic diarrhea or dysentery that has not responded to other treatments.

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