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鱉甲膠

The Effect of 鱉甲膠

Property

Salty, slightly cold; lung, liver and kidney meridians entered.

Actions

Nourish yin, supplement blood, abatement of fever and resolve stagnation.

Indications

Hot flashes with yin deficiency, malaria, swelling and pain of haemorrhoids.

Dosage and Administrations

Melted by boiled water or millet wine for oral administration, 3~9 g, or made into pills.

Cations

It should be used carefully for people with deficiency-cold in spleen and stomach, and those who eat less and have loose stool or pregnant women.