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Phlegm-Resolving Pills,Indicated for severe phlegm accumulation, heaviness in the head and chest, restlessness, and inability to eat or drink.

Formulas Name : Phlegm-Resolving Pills

Chinese Name : 坏涎丸

Drug Formulation

2 fen of realgar; half liang of cold-water stone (burn over high heat until thoroughly red-hot, quench in good wine 5–7 times, then remove); 1 dafen of mithra; 1 dafen of starch; 1 fen of borneol; 1 dafen of mercury (place the starch in a bowl, grind it together with the mercury, and gradually add drops of water until it resembles milk); half liang of pinellia (scald once with hot wine, then soak in ginger juice overnight).

Source

*Bo Ji*, Volume 3.

Processing

Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder. Use fresh ginger juice to cook a wheat-starch paste, then form it into pills the size of mung beans. Coat the pills with finely ground cinnabar.

Benefits

Indicated for severe phlegm accumulation, heaviness in the head and chest, restlessness, and inability to eat or drink.

Instructions for Use

Take 1–2 pills per dose, washed down with ginger and borneol water. Do not chew.

Phlegm-Resolving Pills,*Bo Ji*, Volume 3.,Indicated for severe phlegm accumulation, heaviness in the head and chest, restlessness, and inability to eat or drink.

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