Pills for Eliminating Stagnation (Miaoying Pills)，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 168.，For men, women, and children suffering from various forms of stagnation and excess qi—whether caused by tea, alcohol, raw fruits, meat, or flour, or by emotions such as grief, worry, joy, and anger that become stagnant in the heart, leading to the accumulation of spleen masses as large as a cup or bowl that do not dissipate; various types of parasitic infestations; as well as jaundice, water-poisoning, generalized edema, regurgitation of food, the nine types of heart pain,all wind-related disorders; women’s blood masses, urinary retention, blocked meridians, a sensation of pregnancy in the abdomen, and the formation of a “ghost fetus”; and children’s spleen-related malnutrition and food stagnation.
Pills for Eliminating Stagnation (Miaoying Pills)
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Formulas Name : Pills for Eliminating Stagnation (Miaoying Pills)
Chinese Name : 取积妙应丸
Drug Formulation
1 jin of areca nut, 1 jin of rhubarb, half a jin of ground pharbitis, half a jin of eucommia bark, half a jin of wild sesame seeds (ground separately), half a jin of thunder seed, 4 liang of crane lice, 4 liang of tin ash, and 2 liang of asafoetida (dissolved in wine and kneaded separately).
Source
*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 168.
Processing
Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder. Take 1.5 jin of soapberry (peeled, stringy parts removed, and cleaned), soak it in hot water, and rub it until soft. Strain the orange-infused water to remove the dregs. Mix the powdered medicine with the soapberry water and bind into pills the size of a Paulownia seed.
Benefits
For men, women, and children suffering from various forms of stagnation and excess qi—whether caused by tea, alcohol, raw fruits, meat, or flour, or by emotions such as grief, worry, joy, and anger that become stagnant in the heart, leading to the accumulation of spleen masses as large as a cup or bowl that do not dissipate; various types of parasitic infestations; as well as jaundice, water-poisoning, generalized edema, regurgitation of food, the nine types of heart pain,all wind-related disorders; women’s blood masses, urinary retention, blocked meridians, a sensation of pregnancy in the abdomen, and the formation of a “ghost fetus”; and children’s spleen-related malnutrition and food stagnation.
Instructions for Use
Take 4 qian per dose. At the fifth watch, boil 7 scallion whites in water to make a decoction to wash down the medicine, then eat 3 jujubes to help the medicine settle. The next morning at daybreak, after the bowels have moved once, expel the harmful accumulations. If there are accumulations, they will be completely expelled after several bowel movements. If only thin, watery stool is seen without any solid matter, immediately consume warm, thin rice porridge to replenish the body.
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Pills for Eliminating Stagnation (Miaoying Pills),For men, women, and children suffering from various forms of stagnation and excess qi—whether caused by tea, alcohol, raw fruits, meat, or flour, or by emotions such as grief, worry, joy, and anger that become stagnant in the heart, leading to the accumulation of spleen masses as large as a cup or bowl that do not dissipate; various types of parasitic infestations; as well as jaundice, water-poisoning, generalized edema, regurgitation of food, the nine types of heart pain,all wind-related disorders; women’s blood masses, urinary retention, blocked meridians, a sensation of pregnancy in the abdomen, and the formation of a “ghost fetus”; and children’s spleen-related malnutrition and food stagnation.