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Rhinoceros Horn and Musk Pills

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Rhinoceros Horn and Musk Pills,For heart pain, abdominal pain, external pathogenic factors, and poison from witchcraft or ghostly afflictions.

Formulas Name : Rhinoceros Horn and Musk Pills

Chinese Name : 犀香丸

Drug Formulation

Half a liang of rhino horn shavings, 3 fen of trichosanthes peel (pitted and stir-fried with wheat bran), 1 fen of cloves, 1 fen of musk (ground), 2 liang of cinnamon bark (coarse outer bark removed), 2 liang of areca nut (chopped), 2 liang of dried ginger (roasted), 2 liang of angelica root (sliced and dried),cow bile (ground) half fen, ghost arrow feathers 1 liang, benzoin 2 liang (crush 4 walnuts with a mallet, soak them together in wine overnight, strain out the residue, then add 2 liang of peach kernels, stir-fry, remove the pointed skin, grind everything together into a paste, and simmer with wine until it becomes a paste).

Source

*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 55.

Processing

Except for the benzoin, grind all the above ingredients into a fine powder; mix with the benzoin decoction to form pills the size of a Paulownia seed.

Benefits

For heart pain, abdominal pain, external pathogenic factors, and poison from witchcraft or ghostly afflictions.

Instructions for Use

Take 20–30 pills per dose, washed down with wine mixed with stir-fried ginger.

Rhinoceros Horn and Musk Pills,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 55.,For heart pain, abdominal pain, external pathogenic factors, and poison from witchcraft or ghostly afflictions.

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