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Six-Ingredient Pills,For diabetes.

Formulas Name : Six-Ingredient Pills

Chinese Name : 六物丸

Drug Formulation

8 fen of Trichosanthes root, 6 fen of Ophiopogon tuber (with core removed), 5 fen of Anemarrhena rhizome, 4 fen of Ginseng, 4 fen of Sophora root powder, 4 fen of Trichosanthes root.

Source

From *Shenghui*, cited in *Puji Fang*, Volume 176.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder; mix with ox bile to form pills the size of a paulownia seed.

Benefits

For diabetes.

Instructions for Use

Take 20 pills each time, washed down with barley porridge broth, three times a day. If no improvement is seen, gradually increase the dose to 30 pills.

Six-Ingredient Pills,From *Shenghui*, cited in *Puji Fang*, Volume 176.,For diabetes.

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