Spirit-Nourishing Pills

Spirit-Nourishing Pills,For cases of yang-type collapse with a tendency toward anger, following the administration of Tie Luo Decoction or Danggui Chengqi Decoction to eliminate phlegm.

Formulas Name : Spirit-Nourishing Pills

Chinese Name : 神志丸

Drug Formulation

Poria (wood removed), Polygala (bone removed), Notopterygium, Pinellia, Amomum (peel removed), White Aconite, Cinnabar (ground separately), Realgar (ground separately), and Dried Alum (ground separately)—each in equal parts.

Source

*Supplement to the Inner Canon*, Volume 2.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills the size of a Paulownia seed.

Benefits

For cases of yang-type collapse with a tendency toward anger, following the administration of Tie Luo Decoction or Danggui Chengqi Decoction to eliminate phlegm.

Instructions for Use

Take 50 pills per dose, washed down with rice water after meals, twice daily.

Spirit-Nourishing Pills,*Supplement to the Inner Canon*, Volume 2.,For cases of yang-type collapse with a tendency toward anger, following the administration of Tie Luo Decoction or Danggui Chengqi Decoction to eliminate phlegm.

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