Yellow Sprout Pills，From *Miscellaneous Discourses from Shangchi*.，For cases of a strong stomach and weak spleen, where one can eat but cannot digest, as well as spleen-related diarrhea.
Yellow Sprout Pills
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Formulas Name : Yellow Sprout Pills
Chinese Name : 黄芽丸
Drug Formulation
Processed grain sprouts 4 liang (half raw, half roasted. Preparation: Use 3–4 sheng of glutinous rice; soak in juice extracted from pounded Chinese chive leaves for several days. When sprouts emerge, remove, sift, and place in a container; sun-dry slightly until just dry, then sprinkle with Chinese chive juice until the sprouts retain a greenish hue; sun-dry completely and set aside for use), ginseng 1 liang (if unavailable, substitute with codonopsis or astragalus),2 liang of water caltrop (roasted), 4 liang of lotus seed kernels (remove the core and keep the kernel; place the kernels with their skins inside a pig’s stomach and boil thoroughly; remove from the stomach and sun-dry).
Source
From *Miscellaneous Discourses from Shangchi*.
Processing
Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder. Boil one lotus leaf to extract its juice, then mix the powder with the lotus leaf juice to form a paste and roll into pills the size of mung beans.
Benefits
For cases of a strong stomach and weak spleen, where one can eat but cannot digest, as well as spleen-related diarrhea.
Instructions for Use
Take 2 qian per dose, washed down with rice water, three times daily.
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Yellow Sprout Pills,For cases of a strong stomach and weak spleen, where one can eat but cannot digest, as well as spleen-related diarrhea.