Taiping Pills with Wine，*Treatise on Cold and Warm Diseases*, Volume 5.，For patients who, after recovering from a warm disease, have not yet regained their vital spirit, and experience weakness in the lower back and legs, along with generalized soreness and limpness.
Taiping Pills with Wine
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Formulas Name : Taiping Pills with Wine
Chinese Name : 太平丸酒
Drug Formulation
Glutinous rice wine lees (sun-dried, stir-fried until yellow, ground into powder) 2 liang 4 qian; red rice mold (preferably well-aged, stir-fried until yellowish-black, ground into powder) 2 liang 4 qian; Six-Gods Mold (preferably well-aged, stir-fried until yellowish-black, ground into powder) 4 liang 8 qian;wheat bran (aged wheat bran is best; remove all gluten, sun-dry, roast until black, and grind into a powder) 4 liang 8 qian, white silkworm pupae (white and straight; roast in yellow wine until yellowish-brown, and grind into a powder) 8 qian, whole cicada molts (remove soil, and grind into a powder) 4 qian.
Source
*Treatise on Cold and Warm Diseases*, Volume 5.
Processing
Grind the ingredients into a fine powder and form into pills with water.
Benefits
For patients who, after recovering from a warm disease, have not yet regained their vital spirit, and experience weakness in the lower back and legs, along with generalized soreness and limpness.
Instructions for Use
Take 1 liang per dose, mixed with 3 liang of chilled rice wine and 1 liang of honey, and swallow with the mixture. Repeat the dose in the same manner after 5 days. After three such treatments, in just over 10 days, the patient will feel as if they were never ill.
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Taiping Pills with Wine,For patients who, after recovering from a warm disease, have not yet regained their vital spirit, and experience weakness in the lower back and legs, along with generalized soreness and limpness.