Sparrow Egg and Dodder Pills,*Yi Tong*, Volume 48.,
Sparrow Egg and Dodder Pills
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Formulas Name : Sparrow Egg and Dodder Pills
Chinese Name : 雀卵菟丝丸
Drug Formulation
2 jin of dodder seeds (boil in double-boiled wine for 3 days and nights until dry; mix and pound in a stone mortar into a paste, shape into cakes, dry on a heated bed, grind into a fine powder; mix with wine paste to form pills, shape into cakes, and sun-dry); 100 sparrow eggs (remove the yolks; mix the whites with 1 jin of the clean, ground dodder seed powder).
Source
*Yi Tong*, Volume 48.
Processing
Mix the above ingredients with refined honey to form pills the size of a Paulownia seed.
Instructions for Use
Take 70 pills on an empty stomach with wine. Long-term use is beneficial and harmless.
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Sparrow Egg and Dodder Pills