Yilin Pills,From *Wan’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 5.,For childhood dysentery.
Yilin Pills
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Formulas Name : Yilin Pills
Chinese Name : 一麟丸
Drug Formulation
100 seeds of croton (oil removed, placed in a silk bag), 1 he of licorice (boiled in water for half a day), 1 he of light soybean paste from Jiangxi, and 1 liang of wood fragrant.
Source
From *Wan’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 5.
Processing
Grind the ingredients into a fine powder, mix with human milk to form pills the size of a Paulownia seed, and coat with cinnabar.
Benefits
For childhood dysentery.
Instructions for Use
Take 3 pills per dose: for bloody dysentery, take with light ginger broth; for white dysentery, take with rock sugar broth; for mixed bloody and white dysentery, take with ginger and rock sugar broth; for multicolored dysentery accompanied by intestinal pain, take with mugwort leaf broth.
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Yilin Pills,For childhood dysentery.