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Lord Taicang’s Plague-Repelling Pill

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Lord Taicang’s Plague-Repelling Pill

Formulas Name : Lord Taicang’s Plague-Repelling Pill

Chinese Name : 太仓公辟瘟丹

Drug Formulation

1 jin of Atractylodes lancea, half a jin of Taiwan Aconite, half a jin of Coptis, half a jin of White Atractylodes, half a jin of Notopterygium, 4 liang of Ligusticum chuanxiong, 4 liang of Aconite, 4 liang of Asarum, 4 liang of Lithospermum, 4 liang of Saposhnikovia, 4 liang of Angelica pubescens,Gaoben 4 liang, Bai Zhi 4 liang, Xiangfu 4 liang, Danggui 4 liang, Jingjie 4 liang, Tianma 4 liang, Guan Gui 4 liang, Gansong 4 liang, San Nai 4 liang, Dried Ginger 4 liang, Ma Huang 4 liang, Ya Zao 4 liang, Shaoyao 4 liang, Licorice 4 liang, Musk 3 fen.

Source

From *Hui Chun*, Volume 2.

Processing

Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder and mix with date pulp to form pills the size of a marble.

Instructions for Use

Burn one pill at a time. In rooms that have been unoccupied for a long time, accumulated dampness can easily affect people; prepare this mixture in advance and burn it.

Lord Taicang’s Plague-Repelling Pill,From *Hui Chun*, Volume 2.,

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