Shen’an Pills，*Comprehensive Essentials of Health Preservation*, Volume 11.，For children with restful dysentery: passing five-colored pus and blood resembling rotten fish intestines, with no feces, and cramping pain in the intestines.
Shen’an Pills
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Formulas Name : Shen’an Pills
Chinese Name : 神安丸
Drug Formulation
Arsenic trioxide 1 zi, Dragon Bone 2 zi (calcined), Blackfish Bone 3 zi, Red Cinnabar 2 zi, Poria 3 zi, Coptis (without stalks) 3 zi, Starch 3 zi, Dried Ginger 3 zi (roasted), Orpiment 3 zi (fire-flying).
Source
*Comprehensive Essentials of Health Preservation*, Volume 11.
Processing
Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder, mix in a small amount of musk, and blend well. Form into pills the size of millet grains using cooked rice as a binder.
Benefits
For children with restful dysentery: passing five-colored pus and blood resembling rotten fish intestines, with no feces, and cramping pain in the intestines.
Instructions for Use
Take 5 pills per dose, washed down with a decoction of mercuric oxide. This formula also treats all types of dysentery: for red discharge, take with a decoction of licorice; for white discharge, take with a decoction of dried ginger; for a mixture of red and white discharge, take with a decoction of dried ginger and licorice.
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Shen’an Pills,For children with restful dysentery: passing five-colored pus and blood resembling rotten fish intestines, with no feces, and cramping pain in the intestines.