Secret Formula: Pinellia Pills

Secret Formula: Pinellia Pills,For heart wind-induced mania.

Formulas Name : Secret Formula: Pinellia Pills

Chinese Name : 秘方半夏丸

Drug Formulation

Pinellia tuber 1 liang (boil in ginger juice for 30–50 boils, remove and cut into chunks, boil again until tender, bake dry, and grind into a fine powder), musk 1 qian (ground), mercury half a liang, fresh peppermint 1 large handful (grind with mercury into a paste).

Source

Quoted from *Ji Yan* in Volume 5 of *Zhun Sheng: Lei Fang*.

Processing

Add the above ingredients to the peppermint paste and grind together a thousand or a hundred times to form pills the size of mustard seeds.

Benefits

For heart wind-induced mania.

Instructions for Use

Take 15 pills per dose, washed down with gold-and-silver decoction before bedtime; repeat the dose after 3 days.

Secret Formula: Pinellia Pills,Quoted from *Ji Yan* in Volume 5 of *Zhun Sheng: Lei Fang*.,For heart wind-induced mania.

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