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Ruling Pills

Formulas Name : Ruling Pills

Chinese Name : 乳灵丸

Drug Formulation

Chuanwu (peeled and with navel removed, used raw) half liang; raw dried rehmannia (soaked in wine overnight) 1 liang;Herba Aconiti (small variety, peel and navel removed, stir-fried, salt removed) half liang, Wood Fragrance (unheated) 2.5 qian, Wulingzhi (pebbles and grit removed, lightly stir-fried) 1 liang, Ephedra (roots and nodes removed, lightly stir-fried to remove moisture) 1 liang, Natural Copper (calcined 7 times, quenched 7 times in rice vinegar, ground separately) 1 liang,Tiger leg bone 1 liang (coated with ghee, roasted over fire to preserve its properties), dried papaya (sour variety) 2 liang, frankincense resin (high-quality, ground into a powder with lamp wick and then strained to remove the wick) 2 qian and a half, decayed turtle shell (soaked in rice vinegar for 3 days, roasted until yellow, then quenched in vinegar again) 7 qian and a half.

Source

From *De Xiao*, Volume 13.

Processing

Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder. Refine honey to remove the white foam on top, then form it into pills the size of a longan; make 12 pills from each liang.

Instructions for Use

Each time, dissolve 1 pill in the natural juice of ginger with its skin, take it with hot wine, and follow with half a zhan of wine. If the condition is in the lower part of the body, take it on an empty stomach before meals; if in the upper part, take it a short while after eating. Take twice daily. Do not be alarmed if you experience a slight numbness in the mouth. [Indications] Gout, with multiple affected areas rendering movement impossible and causing constant groaning day and night.

Ruling Pills,From *De Xiao*, Volume 13.,

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