Wax Pills，From *The New Book on the Care of Infants*, cited in Volume 392 of *Formulas for Universal Relief*.，For adults and children alike suffering from all types of food stagnation, diarrhea, or recurrent episodes that have persisted for many cycles, where the qi is already deficient but the disease has not yet been resolved.
Wax Pills
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Formulas Name : Wax Pills
Chinese Name : 蜡丸子
Drug Formulation
1 fen of realgar, 1 fen of borax, 1 fen of cinnabar (all ground together), 1 fen of talcum powder, 1.5 liang of Sichuan aconite (peel and navel removed, used raw) (ground into a fine powder), 1 liang of green tangerine peel (white pith removed, ground into a powder),Black Pharbitis (powder, weighed) 1 liang, Croton Seed (plump variety) 1 liang (remove skin and membrane; stir-fry with 4 liang of salt until purple; discard the salt; additionally, take 1 fen of raw Croton Seed—peeled and dried—remove the core and membrane, then grind it with the stir-fried Croton Seed into a very fine powder; mix with the powders of the preceding ingredients and grind again until uniform).
Source
From *The New Book on the Care of Infants*, cited in Volume 392 of *Formulas for Universal Relief*.
Processing
For each liang of the above powdered medicine, first melt 2 liang of beeswax into a liquid, then add the powdered medicine, stir until thoroughly mixed, allow to cool to room temperature, and roll into pills the size of a paulownia seed.
Benefits
For adults and children alike suffering from all types of food stagnation, diarrhea, or recurrent episodes that have persisted for many cycles, where the qi is already deficient but the disease has not yet been resolved.
Instructions for Use
Administer 5 pills per dose, adjusted according to the patient’s constitution; if the medicine has been stored for a year, increase the dose to 7 pills; for children with deficiency-type stagnation presenting with tidal fever or alternating chills and fever, administer 3 pills the size of mung beans, taken with a decoction of ginger and papaya, and taken before bedtime; for all cases of cold stagnation or chest and diaphragm obstruction, take one dose first; it is particularly effective for persistent cold diarrhea or dysentery with red and white discharges, with immediate relief upon taking the medicine; for severe dysentery, take one dose at the beginning of the third watch, followed by another dose the next day.Immediate results.
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Wax Pills,For adults and children alike suffering from all types of food stagnation, diarrhea, or recurrent episodes that have persisted for many cycles, where the qi is already deficient but the disease has not yet been resolved.