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Xiao Jin Dan,For deficiency and weakness of the five viscera, weakness in the lower back and knees, coughing, retching, chills, and fever, diarrhea and dysentery, abdominal distension caused by sudden fright, boils, abscesses, sores, and hemorrhoids; for all women’s ailments, metrorrhagia, red or white vaginal discharge, difficult childbirth, retained placenta, amenorrhea, and excessive menstrual flow.

Formulas Name : Xiao Jin Dan

Chinese Name : 小金丹

Drug Formulation

4 liang of Yu Yu Liang powder, 5 liang of red cinnabar, 1 jin of Daizhashi, and 2 liang of Shizhonghuang.

Source

From *Ji Feng*, Volume 29.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into an extremely fine powder; add water drop by drop to form pills the size of a paulownia seed; let them dry; heat a sand pot until it glows red; then place the medicine inside and calcine over a charcoal fire until it glows red.

Benefits

For deficiency and weakness of the five viscera, weakness in the lower back and knees, coughing, retching, chills, and fever, diarrhea and dysentery, abdominal distension caused by sudden fright, boils, abscesses, sores, and hemorrhoids; for all women’s ailments, metrorrhagia, red or white vaginal discharge, difficult childbirth, retained placenta, amenorrhea, and excessive menstrual flow.

Instructions for Use

Take 2 pills per dose on an empty stomach or before meals, washed down with “Wang Taiyang” perfumed water.

Xiao Jin Dan,From *Ji Feng*, Volume 29.,For deficiency and weakness of the five viscera, weakness in the lower back and knees, coughing, retching, chills, and fever, diarrhea and dysentery, abdominal distension caused by sudden fright, boils, abscesses, sores, and hemorrhoids; for all women’s ailments, metrorrhagia, red or white vaginal discharge, difficult childbirth, retained placenta, amenorrhea, and excessive menstrual flow.

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