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Okra-Lotus Pills,For various deficiencies and debility.

Formulas Name : Okra-Lotus Pills

Chinese Name : 秋莲丸

Drug Formulation

1 jin of lotus seeds (first soak in wine overnight until thoroughly infused; sew them into a pig’s stomach with thread; then boil in wine until cooked; remove and sun-dry; discard the pig’s stomach), 1 jin of Atractylodes lancea (from Maoshan) (divided into 4 portions: one portion soaked in rice washing water, then stir-fried with 1 liang each of fennel and Polygonum multiflorum; one portion soaked in wine, then stir-fried with 1 liang each of Sichuan aconite and Sichuan melia fruit pulp;one portion soaked in vinegar and stir-fried with 1 liang Sichuan pepper; one portion soaked in salt water and stir-fried with 1 liang black pharbitis root, then remove the pharbitis root), 2 liang Wood Fragrance, 2 liang Schisandra berries, 2 liang Goji berries, 2 liang Prepared Rehmannia root, 2 liang Achyranthes root, 2 liang Cistanche, and 2 liang Deer Antler.

Source

*Remarkably Effective Formulas*, Volume 21.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder; mix with wine paste to form pills the size of a Paulownia seed.

Benefits

For various deficiencies and debility.

Instructions for Use

Take 50 pills per dose, washed down with warm wine or salted water on an empty stomach.

Okra-Lotus Pills,*Remarkably Effective Formulas*, Volume 21.,For various deficiencies and debility.

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