Soft-Shelled Turtle Carapace and Coptis Pills

Soft-Shelled Turtle Carapace and Coptis Pills,For children suffering from various forms of wasting disease, emaciation, fever, night sweats, alternating chills and fever, a distended abdomen with thin legs, refusal to take breast milk or food, coarse and rapid breathing, and disharmony of the spleen and stomach.

Formulas Name : Soft-Shelled Turtle Carapace and Coptis Pills

Chinese Name : 鳖甲黄连丸

Drug Formulation

Soft-shelled Turtle Carapace (soak in half a zhan of a child’s urine and half a zhan of rice vinegar; roast over low heat until completely charred and golden-yellow) half liang; Coptis (use 7 castor beans, remove the skin and membrane; boil with 1 zhan of water until the liquid is completely reduced; discard the castor beans and use only the Coptis) half liang; Atractylodes macrocephala half liang; Ginseng (with the root base removed) half liang;Poria (half liang), Licorice (roasted) (half liang), Melia azedarach pulp (half liang), Erythrina seed kernel (half liang), Wood Fragrance (half liang), Cardamom (roasted, husk removed) (half liang), Bupleurum (root and stem removed) (half liang), Dried Tangerine Peel (white pith removed) (half liang), Gentiana (half liang).

Source

*General Essentials of Health* (Wei Sheng Zong Wei), Volume 12.

Processing

Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder, mix with pig bile, and form into pills the size of mung beans.

Benefits

For children suffering from various forms of wasting disease, emaciation, fever, night sweats, alternating chills and fever, a distended abdomen with thin legs, refusal to take breast milk or food, coarse and rapid breathing, and disharmony of the spleen and stomach.

Instructions for Use

Take 10–20 pills per dose, washed down with rice water; if there is tidal fever or persistent body heat, take with Black Plum Decoction.

Soft-Shelled Turtle Carapace and Coptis Pills,*General Essentials of Health* (Wei Sheng Zong Wei), Volume 12.,For children suffering from various forms of wasting disease, emaciation, fever, night sweats, alternating chills and fever, a distended abdomen with thin legs, refusal to take breast milk or food, coarse and rapid breathing, and disharmony of the spleen and stomach.

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