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First Quality Pure Pills; J^ '^ ;|vL (Shang-ch'ing-wan). 

 Soochow peppermint, white borax, black plums, Fritillaria 

 Toylii, Terminalia chebula, mixed with honey, for the treat- 

 ment of syphilis. 



Five Tiger Pills ; ^^f^ (Wu-hu-tan). Aconite, ginger 

 juice, wild sesamum seeds, dragon's blood, flowers of sulphur, 

 and scaly ant eater skin. For wounds, boils, and colds. 



Fotir Essences Pills; j^h ;^ (Ssu-ching-wan), Urea, 

 Pachyma cocos, Euryale ferox, and lotus root. Anaphrodisiac, 

 and iised in polyuria and spermatorrhoea. 



Four-precious Great-spirit Pills ; ^ ;/v iP^ :f5* (Ssu-pao- 

 ta-shen-tan). Volunteer (wild) beans boiled in the bath water 

 from a public bath house (t^ ^), Astragalus hoangtchy 

 cooked in woman's milk, Cryptotaenia canadensis washed in 

 spirits, and Rosa laevigata soaked in child's urine. These are 

 said to be tonic, and to one who is able to swallow them they 

 should prove to be so. 



Four spirit Pills; ^f ^ (Ssu-shen-wan). Lycium 

 sinense, spirits, Zanthoxyhnn, fennel seed, sesamum seed, 

 Melia azedarach, Rehmannia glutinosa, Atractylis ovata, 

 Pachyma cocos, and honey. For kidney and eye troubles, as 

 a tonic. 



Gastrodia Pills ; "^ ^ %i (T'ien-ma-wan). Gastrodia 

 elata, Conioselinum univittatum, and honey. Tonic and con- 

 structive. 



Helping the Yin atid Bringing back the Soul Pills ; ^ 

 1^ M ^ f3* (Chi-yin-fan-hun-tan). These are made of the whole 

 plant of Leonurus sibirica, dried, powdered, and mixed with 

 honey. They are said to have preserved the lives of many, and 

 are specially recommended in the difficulties of pregnancy and 

 of the puerperal state. 



Hundred Felicities Pill ; W H # (Pai-hsiang-kao). These 

 are simply the red sprouted Euphorbia lasiocaula, thoroughly 

 cooked in starch water, and made into a pill mass, or rolled 

 into pills the size of millet grains. They are used in coughs, 

 nausea, and smallpox of an irregular type. 



Hypoxis Pills; Jifj ^ % (Hsien-mao-w^an). Hypoxis 

 aurea, glutinous rice, Atractylis sinensis, Lycium sinense, 

 Plantago major, Pachyma cocos, feunel, kernels of Thuja 



