Puyuan Guben Pills，From *Formulas for Saving Lives*, Volume 2.，Symptoms include feeling cold in the morning and hot in the evening, restlessness, coughing with red phlegm, mental agitation and insomnia, night sweats and nocturnal emissions, wasting of the muscles and sallow complexion, muscular atrophy and physical weakness, loss of appetite, spleen-stomach deficiency with loose stools, and the subsequent development of consumptive diseases due to deficiency.
Puyuan Guben Pills
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Formulas Name : Puyuan Guben Pills
Chinese Name : 培元固本丸
Drug Formulation
Ginseng 5 liang, Ophiopogon 4 liang, Schisandra 2 liang, Cistanche 2 liang (processed and sun-dried), Prepared Rehmannia 8 liang, Cornus 1 liang, Chinese Yam 1 liang, Poria 3 liang, Moutan 3 liang, Alisma 3 liang.
Source
From *Formulas for Saving Lives*, Volume 2.
Processing
Form into pills with refined honey.
Benefits
Symptoms include feeling cold in the morning and hot in the evening, restlessness, coughing with red phlegm, mental agitation and insomnia, night sweats and nocturnal emissions, wasting of the muscles and sallow complexion, muscular atrophy and physical weakness, loss of appetite, spleen-stomach deficiency with loose stools, and the subsequent development of consumptive diseases due to deficiency.
Instructions for Use
Take 3–5 qian per dose, taken on an empty stomach in the morning with a large cup of boiling water.
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Puyuan Guben Pills,Symptoms include feeling cold in the morning and hot in the evening, restlessness, coughing with red phlegm, mental agitation and insomnia, night sweats and nocturnal emissions, wasting of the muscles and sallow complexion, muscular atrophy and physical weakness, loss of appetite, spleen-stomach deficiency with loose stools, and the subsequent development of consumptive diseases due to deficiency.