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Yellow Emperor’s Four-Fan Powder

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Yellow Emperor’s Four-Fan Powder

Formulas Name : Yellow Emperor’s Four-Fan Powder

Chinese Name : 黄帝四扇散

Drug Formulation

Pine resin, Alisma, Atractylodes, dried ginger, mica, dried rehmannia, and Acorus tatarinowii.

Source

From *The Great Clear Classic*, cited in Volume 26 of *The Prescriptions from the Heart of Medicine*.

Processing

Carefully prepare all seven ingredients, mix them in equal parts, and pound them 40,000 times with a pestle; store in a sealed container.

Instructions for Use

Take 3 fangcun bi per dose, washed down with wine; it may also be taken with water. Alternatively, it may be made into pills with refined honey, each the size of a soybean. Take 20 pills per dose, up to 30 pills.

Yellow Emperor’s Four-Fan Powder,From *The Great Clear Classic*, cited in Volume 26 of *The Prescriptions from the Heart of Medicine*.,

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