Gujing Dan

Gujing Dan,For various conditions involving the expulsion of worms—whether thread-like, hair-like, or horse-tail-like—which, in severe cases, may lead to premature death.

Formulas Name : Gujing Dan

Chinese Name : 谷精丹

Drug Formulation

3 liang of Eupatorium (place in a jar, seal with salt and mud, and roast until red), half a liang of melon seed pod, half a liang of Coptis chinensis, half a liang of clove buds, 3 cun of soapberry (burned), 3 dried toads (collected on the Dragon Boat Festival, fried in butter), 1 fen of aloe, 1 fen of borax, and 1 fen of musk.

Source

Formula by Zhang Huan, cited in Volume 31 of *New Book on the Care of Infants*.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder and form into pills the size of millet grains using pig bile.

Benefits

For various conditions involving the expulsion of worms—whether thread-like, hair-like, or horse-tail-like—which, in severe cases, may lead to premature death.

Instructions for Use

Take 10 pills per dose, washed down with warm rice water.

Gujing Dan,Formula by Zhang Huan, cited in Volume 31 of *New Book on the Care of Infants*.,For various conditions involving the expulsion of worms—whether thread-like, hair-like, or horse-tail-like—which, in severe cases, may lead to premature death.

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