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Seven-Ingredient Cardamom Pills,For unrelenting diarrhea; chronic dysentery causing yang deficiency; or when stagnation has been cleared but stools remain loose and uncontrollable; as well as for abdominal pain and loose stools due to deficiency-cold in children following smallpox.

Formulas Name : Seven-Ingredient Cardamom Pills

Chinese Name : 七味豆蔻丸

Drug Formulation

Cardamom (baked in flour) 3 qian, Wood Fragrance 3 qian, Amomum 3 qian, White Dragon Bone 5 qian, Chebulic Myrobalan pulp 5 qian, Red Ocher 7 qian, Dried Alum 7 qian.

Source

From *Secrets of Infant Care*, Volume 3.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder, mix with flour paste to form pills the size of a sesame seed.

Benefits

For unrelenting diarrhea; chronic dysentery causing yang deficiency; or when stagnation has been cleared but stools remain loose and uncontrollable; as well as for abdominal pain and loose stools due to deficiency-cold in children following smallpox.

Instructions for Use

Adjust the dosage according to the child’s condition; for younger children, start with 15 pills and increase to a maximum of 50 pills, taken with rice water.

Seven-Ingredient Cardamom Pills,From *Secrets of Infant Care*, Volume 3.,For unrelenting diarrhea; chronic dysentery causing yang deficiency; or when stagnation has been cleared but stools remain loose and uncontrollable; as well as for abdominal pain and loose stools due to deficiency-cold in children following smallpox.

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