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Otter Claw Pills,For consumptive disease.

Formulas Name : Otter Claw Pills

Chinese Name : 獭爪丸

Drug Formulation

Otter Claw (roasted with vinegar, ground into powder), Otter Liver (air-dried), Raw Rehmannia Root, Tortoise Shell, Ophiopogon Tuber, Glehnia Root, Silver Bupleurum, Lycium Bark, Stemona Root, Peony Bark, Platycodon Root, Roasted Licorice Root.

Source

From *Li Xu Yuan Jian*, Volume 2.

Processing

Grind into a powder and form into pills.

Benefits

For consumptive disease.

Instructions for Use

Take 5–7 fen per dose, dissolved in a decoction and swallowed.

Otter Claw Pills,From *Li Xu Yuan Jian*, Volume 2.,For consumptive disease.

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