Junzi Pill，*General Essentials of Health Preservation*, Volume 12.，For fever due to malnutrition and wasting disease, finger-biting and nail-chewing, sparse hair and abdominal distension, loss of appetite for breast milk or food, emaciation, weakness, and loose stools without restraint, a craving for dirt, as well as diarrhea accompanied by fever and startle reactions.
Junzi Pill
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Formulas Name : Junzi Pill
Chinese Name : 君子丸
Drug Formulation
Magnolia Bark (coarse bark removed, processed with ginger) half liang, Licorice (roasted) half liang, Indigo Powder half liang, Chebulic Myrobalan (stir-fried, pitted, using only the peel; half raw, half cooked) half liang, Dried Tangerine Peel 1 fen (white pith removed), Sijunzi (shell removed) 1 liang (wrapped in flour and baked until tender), White Cnidium (feathers removed) 3 fen.
Source
*General Essentials of Health Preservation*, Volume 12.
Processing
Grind the ingredients into a fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills the size of a chicken’s egg.
Benefits
For fever due to malnutrition and wasting disease, finger-biting and nail-chewing, sparse hair and abdominal distension, loss of appetite for breast milk or food, emaciation, weakness, and loose stools without restraint, a craving for dirt, as well as diarrhea accompanied by fever and startle reactions.
Instructions for Use
Children under 3 years of age should take half a pill; those older should take one whole pill, taken with breast milk or rice water.
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Junzi Pill,For fever due to malnutrition and wasting disease, finger-biting and nail-chewing, sparse hair and abdominal distension, loss of appetite for breast milk or food, emaciation, weakness, and loose stools without restraint, a craving for dirt, as well as diarrhea accompanied by fever and startle reactions.