Tiao Yuan Pills，*Essentials for Expanding the Lineage*.，For women whose menstrual periods are irregular—occurring too early or too late, or with varying flow—and lack a fixed cycle.
Tiao Yuan Pills
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Formulas Name : Tiao Yuan Pills
Chinese Name : 调元丸
Drug Formulation
Cyperus Rhizome (soaked in vinegar—5 parts in spring, 3 in summer, 7 in autumn, and 10 in winter; pounded until extremely fine, sun-dried, ground into a fine powder, and mixed with 10 liang of gold vinegar to form a paste) 1 jin; Angelica sinensis 5 liang; Ligusticum chuanxiong 5 liang; Atractylodes macrocephala 5 liang; Dried tangerine peel 5 liang.
Source
*Essentials for Expanding the Lineage*.
Processing
Grind each of the above five ingredients into an extremely fine powder; use the vinegar remaining from soaking the herbs to cook a wheat flour paste, then form into pills the size of a Paulownia seed.
Benefits
For women whose menstrual periods are irregular—occurring too early or too late, or with varying flow—and lack a fixed cycle.
Instructions for Use
Take 50 pills per dose on an empty stomach before meals, washed down with wine; if not drinking wine, take with an aniseed decoction.
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Tiao Yuan Pills,For women whose menstrual periods are irregular—occurring too early or too late, or with varying flow—and lack a fixed cycle.