Three-Ingredient Fermented Grain Powder Pills，From *Ming Yi Za Zhu* (Miscellaneous Writings of a Ming Physician), Volume 6.，For stagnant food and retained fluids in the epigastrium, sour-burning heart pain, and vomiting of clear fluid.
Three-Ingredient Fermented Grain Powder Pills
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Formulas Name : Three-Ingredient Fermented Grain Powder Pills
Chinese Name : 三味曲末丸
Drug Formulation
Shenqu (roasted) 3 liang, Atractylodes (soaked in rice wash for three nights, washed, sun-dried, and roasted) 1.5 liang, Dried Tangerine Peel 1 liang.
Source
From *Ming Yi Za Zhu* (Miscellaneous Writings of a Ming Physician), Volume 6.
Processing
Grind the ingredients into a fine powder; mix with a paste made from Shenqu and ginger juice to form pills.
Benefits
For stagnant food and retained fluids in the epigastrium, sour-burning heart pain, and vomiting of clear fluid.
Instructions for Use
Administer with ginger decoction.
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Three-Ingredient Fermented Grain Powder Pills,For stagnant food and retained fluids in the epigastrium, sour-burning heart pain, and vomiting of clear fluid.