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Tincture of MouocJiasma savatieri ; j^ ^ -Jg (Lu-jiing- 

 chiu). The drug is digested in spirits together with Dioscorea 

 batatas. This is used in profuse urination and general debility. 



Tincture of Morns alba ; ^ \% -Jg (Sang-shen-chiu). The 

 juice of mulberries is boiled and fermented with leaven in the 

 usual manner. It is used in dropsy, and it is .said that out of 

 ten afflicted with this difficulty, if they use this remedy, not 

 one will die. 



Tincture of Mnlgediiini sibiriacum ; ^ ^ "Jg (Chii-sheng- 

 chiu). Two pints of the seeds are combined with two pints of 

 the kernels of Coix lachryma and a half catty of the fresh 

 root of Rehmannia glutinosa. • These are digested in spirits, 

 and the preparation is used in the treatment of debility and 

 rheumatic difficulties. 



Tincture of Pachynia cocos ; 1^ ^ 'Jg (Fu-ling-chin). The 

 powdered tubers are fermented with leaven and rice and used 

 as a tonic remedy. 



Tincture of Panax ginseng ; A :# 'ig (Jen-shen-chiu). 

 The root is powdered and fermented with rice and leaven, or 

 digested in prepared spirit. It is used as a tonic in all wasting 

 disea.ses. 



Tincture of pitch ; ;^ ^ -Jg (Sung-yeh-chiu). The freshly 

 collected pitch is fermented with glutinous rice, and used in the 

 treatment of colds and locally in chillblains. 



Tincture of Polygonatuni canaliculatuni co.; ^ j^ M 

 (Huang-ching-chiu). Four catties each of Polygonatuni cana- 

 liculatuni and Atractylis-sinensis ; five catties of Lycium 

 orientalis leaves ; and three catties of Asparagus lucidus are 

 decocted, and the decoction mixed with glutinous rice and 

 leaven, and fermented. This is nourishing, tonic, aphrodisiac, 

 and reconstructive. 



Tincture of Polygonum ; ^ jg (Liao-chiu). A decoction 

 of the plant is fermented with leaven and rice, and the prepara- 

 tion is recommended as a tonic. 



Tincture of Tree Polygonuvi ; 5c ^ 1® (T'ien-liao-chiu). 

 The plant from which this is made is not really a Polygonum, 

 resembling that plant only in taste ; but it has not been possible 

 to identify it. The bark of the tree TfC ^ ^ (Alu-t'ien-liao) is 

 digested in spirits, in the spring and summer for seventeen 



