Pills for Tonifying, Draining, and Preventing Exhaustion

Pills for Tonifying, Draining, and Preventing Exhaustion,For dry and damp foot Qi, edema, pain in the tendons and meridians, inability to walk, Qi surging to the chest and abdomen, loss of appetite, and cases where vital energy is too weak to tolerate purgatives.

Formulas Name : Pills for Tonifying, Draining, and Preventing Exhaustion

Chinese Name : 补泄防劳丸

Drug Formulation

Saussurea (not heated) 12 fen, Areca nut 12 fen, Rhubarb (raw) 12 fen, Hemp seed 12 fen, Trifoliate orange peel (stir-fried with wheat bran, pith removed) 1 fen,Cinnamon Bark (coarse outer bark removed, not heated) 1 fen, Smilax Rhizome 1 fen, Achyranthes Root 10 fen (soaked in wine), Chebulic Myrobalan (pitted) 4 fen, Cornus Fruit (pitted) 4 fen, Ligusticum Root 4 fen, Angelica Root 4 fen, Peucedanum Root 4 fen, Shaved Antelope Horn 4 fen, Aconite Root (roasted and peeled).

Source

From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 8.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills the size of a paulownia seed.

Benefits

For dry and damp foot Qi, edema, pain in the tendons and meridians, inability to walk, Qi surging to the chest and abdomen, loss of appetite, and cases where vital energy is too weak to tolerate purgatives.

Instructions for Use

Take 20 pills per dose, washed down with warm wine on an empty stomach, once a day. The treatment is effective when it induces mild diarrhea.

Pills for Tonifying, Draining, and Preventing Exhaustion,From *Wei’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 8.,For dry and damp foot Qi, edema, pain in the tendons and meridians, inability to walk, Qi surging to the chest and abdomen, loss of appetite, and cases where vital energy is too weak to tolerate purgatives.

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