Xunshun Pills

Xunshun Pills,For women with retrograde menstruation where blood flows upward, and for men with coughing and hemoptysis, who have a taut pulse in the left guan and chi positions, feel chills in the back, and have blood stasis.

Formulas Name : Xunshun Pills

Chinese Name : 巽顺丸

Drug Formulation

1 black-boned, white-feathered chicken (male or female, choose a tender, mature bird; stun it, soak it, pluck the feathers, split the flanks with a bamboo knife, remove the gizzard and liver, clean out impurities, retain the gallbladder, and remove intestinal residue, then return it to the abdomen), cuttlefish bone (soaked in children’s urine, sun-dried into powder, lightly roasted until yellow, and sifted to remove impurities) 4 liang,Reed shoots (tips removed, washed in wine, sliced) 1 liang, abalone (thinly sliced) 4 liang.

Source

*Zhang’s Comprehensive Treatise on Medicine*, Volume 13.

Processing

Place the above three ingredients into the chicken’s abdomen. Add 2 bowls each of aged wine and children’s urine, along with several bowls of water, to a clay pot. Simmer in a slow, continuous process, adding liquid as needed, until the mixture is completely reduced and the liquid has evaporated. Pound the mixture into a paste and dry it thoroughly. Roast the cuttlefish bone in clarified butter, then grind all ingredients into a fine powder. Mix the powder with dried Chinese yam powder to form a paste, and roll into pills the size of a paulownia seed.

Benefits

For women with retrograde menstruation where blood flows upward, and for men with coughing and hemoptysis, who have a taut pulse in the left guan and chi positions, feel chills in the back, and have blood stasis.

Instructions for Use

Take 50–70 pills per dose on an empty stomach, washed down with Ba Lao water.

Xunshun Pills,*Zhang’s Comprehensive Treatise on Medicine*, Volume 13.,For women with retrograde menstruation where blood flows upward, and for men with coughing and hemoptysis, who have a taut pulse in the left guan and chi positions, feel chills in the back, and have blood stasis.

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