Plum Paste Pills,From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 8.,
Plum Paste Pills
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Formulas Name : Plum Paste Pills
Chinese Name : 梅膏丸
Drug Formulation
4 liang of black plum, 14 seeds of croton (remove the shells; boil with 3 bowls of water together with the black plum until all the water has evaporated; retain 7 croton seeds and grind them with the black plum pulp into a paste), 1 liang of white alum (raw), 2 liang of pinellia (washed 7 times in hot water and dried in an oven), 1 fen of toadflax seeds (roasted),1 fen of Tussilago flower, 1 fen of soapberry (roasted until yellow, black skin removed), 1 fen of Aristolochia, 1 fen of ginseng (root tip removed).
Source
From *Yang’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 8.
Processing
Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder, mix with the paste, and form into pills the size of mung beans.
Instructions for Use
Take 5–7 pills per dose after meals, washed down with ginger decoction; if accompanied by shortness of breath, phlegm, or cough, take them with a decoction of mulberry bark and radish.
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Plum Paste Pills