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Huangying Dan,For men and women suffering from long-standing, unbearable pain in the chest and abdomen.

Formulas Name : Huangying Dan

Chinese Name : 黄英丹

Drug Formulation

1 liang of sulfur powder, 1 liang of arsenic trioxide (decocted with 1 sheng of vinegar until the vinegar evaporates), 1 liang of miso (burned until bright red), 1 liang of frankincense (ground separately), and 1 liang of human feces ash (burned to ash, leached for juice, and boiled down to a paste).

Source

From *Shenghui*, Volume 95.

Processing

Grind all the ingredients except frankincense into a fine powder. Simmer the frankincense in half a sheng of aged rice vinegar until it dissolves. Add powdered cold-food steamed buns and grind the mixture into a paste. Then incorporate the other ingredients and form into pills the size of a paulownia seed.

Benefits

For men and women suffering from long-standing, unbearable pain in the chest and abdomen.

Instructions for Use

Take 1 pill at a time, washed down with wine. For sudden heart pain, relief is immediate; for chronic heart pain that has not healed over many years, take 1 pill daily on an empty stomach. After taking 30 pills, the condition will never recur for the rest of one’s life.

Huangying Dan,From *Shenghui*, Volume 95.,For men and women suffering from long-standing, unbearable pain in the chest and abdomen.

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