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Life-Extending Pills

Formulas Name : Life-Extending Pills

Chinese Name : 续命丸

Drug Formulation

1 jin of dried cypress leaves, half a liang of sweet chrysanthemum flowers (unopened), half a liang of white poria (with black skin removed), 3 liang of yam, 4 liang of prepared dried rehmannia (baked), and 1 jin of pine resin (boiled in 2 dou of mulberry wood ash lye until it turns white).

Source

*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 186.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills the size of a Paulownia seed.

Instructions for Use

Take 30 pills per dose, washed down with warm wine on an empty stomach.

Life-Extending Pills,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 186.,

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