Tonic: Musk Navel Pills

Tonic: Musk Navel Pills,For bone-consumptive fever due to overwork, characterized by prolonged emaciation, wasting of flesh, hair loss, and uncontrolled bleeding accompanied by wheezing and coughing.

Formulas Name : Tonic: Musk Navel Pills

Chinese Name : 补药麝脐丸

Drug Formulation

1 musk navel (burned to ash), 1 liang of Rehmannia root (washed), 1 liang of Lycium bark, 1 liang of Chinese yam, 1 liang of Bupleurum root, Atractylodes macrocephala, and 1 live soft-shelled turtle (preferably weighing 2 jin).

Source

From *The Classic of the Middle Storehouse*, Volume 2.

Processing

Place the soft-shelled turtle in strong wine, simmer until thoroughly tender, grind into a fine paste, mix in the liquid, then boil down to a paste, grind into a powder, and form into pills the size of a Paulownia seed.

Benefits

For bone-consumptive fever due to overwork, characterized by prolonged emaciation, wasting of flesh, hair loss, and uncontrolled bleeding accompanied by wheezing and coughing.

Instructions for Use

Take 20 pills with wine—twice daily and once at night.

Tonic: Musk Navel Pills,From *The Classic of the Middle Storehouse*, Volume 2.,For bone-consumptive fever due to overwork, characterized by prolonged emaciation, wasting of flesh, hair loss, and uncontrolled bleeding accompanied by wheezing and coughing.

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