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Pill for Sparse Smallpox

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Pill for Sparse Smallpox,For measles that have not yet erupted.

Formulas Name : Pill for Sparse Smallpox

Chinese Name : 稀痘丸

Drug Formulation

1 liang of Lithospermum root (steamed with wine), 1 liang of burdock seeds (roasted), 2 liang of licorice, 5 qian of red adzuki beans, 5 qian of hawthorn, 5 qian of forsythia, 4 qian of saposhnikovia root, 4 qian of gardenia charcoal, 3 qian of schizonepeta, and 3 qian of Coptis chinensis.

Source

*Comprehensive Treatise on Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 4.

Processing

Make into pills the size of a longan using licorice decoction as a paste, and coat with cinnabar.

Benefits

For measles that have not yet erupted.

Instructions for Use

Take 1 pill per dose, washed down with rice broth; for those with a robust constitution, it may be taken with mung bean broth. If taken before the smallpox eruption appears, it reverses adverse progression to a normal course and reduces a normal eruption to a sparse one.

Pill for Sparse Smallpox,*Comprehensive Treatise on Smallpox and Measles*, Volume 4.,For measles that have not yet erupted.

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