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Pills
Pills are generally made from powdered medicines, so the preparations for making powder are followed to begin with. Then the powders are formed into a 'pill mass' with a suitable liquid.

In the Western Tradition, Pills were most commonly used as the administration method for purgative medicines. Administering purgatives in pill form has several advantages: the dose can be strictly regulated; foul-tasting or irritant medicines reach the stomach without affecting the mouth or throat, or offending with their taste; it was also long believed that the slow dissolving of a pill allowed the purgative medicine to reach deeper and purge more effectively. It also means that strong or harsh purgative or cathartic medicines are not 'dumped' into the system immediately, but rather, dispersed over a period of time to avoid any harsh reaction on the stomach or intestines.

Traditionally in the Western Tradition, this semi-solid pill mass would be kept in a container, usually being covered with an oiled piece of leather. Then, when they were to be prescribed, a piece was taken and pills of a suitable size were rolled as required.

Pills can be made of powders by adding a variety of different liquids: Honey, Oxymel, Syrup, Mucilage, clarified Juice, Rice water, etc. The size of a pill was often given in reference to a seed, for example a Hemp seed, Pea, Chickpea etc.

Pills may be coated once finished. Rolling pills in a tray with a little hot wax can give a wax coating which can keep the pill almost indefinitely. In other cases, the pills may be rolled in sugar, a gum, a mineral such as Pearl or Cinnabar, or in the case of special and 'noble' pills, Gold or Silver leaf.



Aloephangine Pills (Mesue)
Arabian Pills (Nicholas)
Aromatic Pills of Aloe (Mesue)
Astringent Pills
Expert Pills for Cough

Expert Pills for Cough from Cold and Dryness    NEW 2/23
Expert Pills for Epilepsy from Phlegm    NEW 2/23
Foetid Pills Minor of Galen
Foetid Pills Major of Galen
Foetid Pills Greater (Mesue)
Golden Pills (Nicholas)
Greater Polycrest Pills (Pil. Aggregative Majores)
Hospital Pills to Cleanse the Chest (Unani)
Imperial Pills
Indian Pills (Mesue)
Lesser Pills of Cochia (Galen)

Pills for Apoplexy (Arnold de Villa Nova)
Pills for Arthritis (Nicholas)
Pills for Arthritis (Wirtzung)
Pills for Ascites (Renodeus)
Pills for Coitus (Arnold de Villa Nova)
Pills for Cold and Moist Cough of Paulus
Pills for Excess Menstruation (Gabelhover)
Pills for Fibrosis of the Liver (Riverius)
Pills for Headache from Bile and Phlegm
Pills for Hot Cough (Zacharia)
Pills for Joint Disease
Pills for Kidney and Bladder Ulcers
Pills for Migraine (Galen)
Pills for Migraine (2) (Galen)
Pills for Mixed Humors (Mesue)
Pills for Pestilence
Pills for Retention of Urine (Wirtzung)
Pills for Scoliosis (Wirtzung)

Pills Proven for Coughs (Galen)
Pills Proven for Vision (Galen)


Pills Against Barrenness (Turner)
Pills Against Fluxes (Nicholas)


Pills of Agaric (Avicenna)
Pills of Agaric (Mesue)
Pills of Agrimony Lesser (Mesue)

Pills of Agrimony Greater (Mesue)


Pills of Colchicum (Mesue) (Habb E Suranjun)
Pills of Colchicum Greater (Habb E Suranjun Kalan)
Pills of Euphorbium (Mesue)

Pills of Fumitory (Avicenna)

Pills of Fumitory and Senna (Unani)
Pills of Isaac Heben
Pills of Lapis Lazuli 1 (Mesue)

Pills of Lapis Lazuli 2 (Mesue)
Pills of Lapis Lazuli 3 (Mesue)

Pills of Mastic (Mesue)
Pills of Opopanax (
De morbus internis curandis)
Pills of Rhubarb (Mesue)
Pills of Rhubarb (Greater) (Raved Sceni) (Mesue)
Pills of Rhubarb and Agaric (Mesue)
Pills of Ruffus (Common Pills, or Pestilential Pills)
Pills of Seeds (Unani)
Pills of Spikenard
Pills of Storax (Mesue)
Pills of Washed Aloes


Pills to Clarify (Pilulae Lucis Majores) (Mesue)
Pills to Cleanse the Chest (Avicenna)
Pills to Crumble Urinary Stones (Unani)
Pills to Hold in the Mouth for Catarrh
Pills to Increase Memory
Pills to Preserve the Sight (Grulingus)
Pills to Prevent Miscarriage (Wirtzung)
Pills to Promote Urine (Unani)
Pills to Provoke Urine

Pills to Purge in Barrenness (Wirtzung)
Pills to Strongly Promote Menstruation
Pills to Aggreagte Lesser (Mesue)
Pills to Aggregate Greater (Mesue)
Pills for Melancholy (Unani)

Pills for Pituitous & Burnt Humors (Mesue)
Pills for Pituitous & Burnt Humors with Hellebore (Mesue)
Pills to Purge Bile and Phlegm (1) (Mesue)
Pills to Purge Bile and Phlegm (2) (Mesue)

Pills without which I would not be (Sine Quibus) (Nich.)

Stomach Pills (Mesue)
Sweet Pills of Aloe (Mesue)
The Goa Stone


Eastern Formula

Aloeswood 6 (A gar drug pa)    NEW 2/23
Amomum 11 (Ko la 11) (Tibetan)
Amomum 19 (Ko la 19) (Tibetan)
An Gong Niu Huang Wan (TCM)
Asafetida 25 (Shin kun nyer lnga) (Tibetan)
Balancing Comforter (Bde byed snyoms) (Tibetan)
Betel nut 7 (Go yu 7) (Tibetan)    NEW 2/23
Betel Immense Pleasure Giver (Tibetan)    NEW 2/23
Bezoar 9 (Gi Wan 9) (Tibetan)
Bezoar 13 (Gi Wan 13) (Tibetan)
Bi Ma La (Tibetan Medicine)
Black Camphor 10 (Gar nag 10)    NEW 2/23
Bo Ying Compound (TCM Patent)
Camphor 14 (Tibetan)
Cardamon 7 (Sug smel 7) (Tibetan)
Catechu 23 (Seng ldeng 23) (Tibetan)    NEW 2/23
Catechu 25 (Seng ldeng 25) (Tibetan)
Chebula 10 (A Ru 10) (Tibetan)
Chebula 18 (A Ru 18) (Tibetan)
Chebula 18 for Incontinence (Gcin snyi a ru 18) (Tibetan)

Children’s Clear the Lungs 8 Pill    NEW 2/23
Clear the Throat 6 Pill    NEW 2/23
Clear the Turbid 5 Pills (Mongolian)    NEW 2/23
Clove 6 (Li shi drug pa) (Tibetan)
Codonopsis 18 (Klu bdud bco brgyad) (Tibetan)  NEW 2/23
Cooling Formula of the Secret Oral Tradition    NEW 2/23
Coptis 5 Pill (Tibetan)
Costus Garuda (Ru khyung) (Tibetan)
Crystal Moon Nectar (Zla shel bdud rtsi ma)    NEW 2/23
Crystal Moon 37 (Zla shel so bdun) (Tibetan)
Da Huang Zhe Chong Wan (TCM)
Da Shan Zha Wan (TCM)
Dang Gui Long Hui Wan (TCM)
Dian She Wan (TCM)
Die Da Wan (Trauma Pill) (TCM)
Eleven Holders of Life (Srog dzin dcu gcig) (Tibetan)

Eliminator of Inflamed Lungs (Glo tshad kun sel) NEW 3/23
Eliminator of Undying Micro-organism    NEW 2/23
Emblic 6 (Skyu ru duk pa) (Tibetan)
Emblic 25 (Skyu ru nyer lnga) (Tibetan)
Garuda 5 (Khyung lnga) (Tibetan)
Garuda 8 (Khyung lnga mchu sder can) (Tibetan)
Garuda 9 (Khyung lnga ni la)    NEW 2/23
Garuda of Camphor (Spos khyung bco lnga) (Tibetan)
Gentiana algida 15 (Spang rgyan dkar po 15) (Tibetan)
Golden 5 (Gser mdog 5) (Tibetan)
Golden 11 (Gser mdog 11) (Tibetan)
Golden Pacific (Zhi gser) (Tibetan)
Gui Zhi Fu Ling Wan (TCM)
Huo Luo Xiao Ling Dan (TCM)




Li Zhong Wan (TCM)
Liu Shen Wan (Six Miracle Pill) (TCM)
Liu Wei Di Huang Wan (Rehmannia 6) (TCM)
Madder Pill (Tibetan Medicine)
Mandala of the Sun (Se bru nye dkyil) (Tibetan)
Mental Happiness (Sems kyi bde skyid) (Tibetan)

Niu Huang Jie Du Pian (TCM)

Nutmeg 5 (Dza ti lnga pa) (Tibetan)   NEW 2/23
Nux Vomica 13 (Ko byi bcu gsum) (Tibetan)
Pacific 6 (Zhi byed drug pa) (Tibetan)
Pacific 11 (Zhi byed bcu gcig) (Tibetan)
Pearl 25 (Mu tig nyer lnga) (Tibetan)
Pill for Throat Diseases (Skad gags a ru bdun pa)    NEW 2/23
Pills for Vertigo (Ayurveda)

Pills of Cardamon (Eladi Gutika)    NEW 2/23
Pills of Castor and Bdellium (Vatari Guggulu)    NEW 1/23
Pills of Lacca and Bdellium (Laksa Guggulu)    NEW 1/23
Pills of Mother of Pearl (Tibetan)
Pills of Three Tastes (Mongolian)

Pills of Tribulus and Bdellium (Goksuradi Guggulu)   NEW 1/23
Po Chai Pills (TCM Patent)
Pomegranate 5 (Se bru 5) (Tibetan)
Possessor of Ruby Color (Pad rag mdog ldan) (Tibetan)
Prabhakara Vati   NEW 2/23
Principle 8 (Gtso bo brgyad pa) (Tibetan)
Principle 25 (Gtso bo nyer lnga) (Tibetan)
Rolled Turquoise 13 (Gyu dri 13) (Tibetan)
Safflower 7 (Gur gum 7)   NEW 2/23
Safflower 13 (Gur gum bcu gsum) (Tibetan)    NEW 2/23
Sea Buckthorn 5 (Star bu 5) (Tibetan)
Shen Qi Wan (Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan) (TCM)
Shilajit 9 (Brag zun dgu pa) (Tibetan)
Shi Xiang Fan Sheng Wan (TCM)
Shuang Liao Hou Feng San (TCM Patent)
Su He Xiang Wan (TCM)
Subduer of All Blood Disorders (Khrag khrugs kun sel)
Tabasheer 25 (Cu gang nyer lnga)    NEW 2/23
Tian Wang Bu Xin Dan (TCM)
Vyosadi Guggulu (Ayurveda)    NEW 2/23
Wish-fulfilling Jewel (Bsam phel nor bu) (Tibetan)
Xi Huang Wan (TCM)
Xiao Huo Luo Wan (TCM)
Yogaraja Guggulu    NEW 2/23
You Gui Wan (TCM)
Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan (Rehmannia 6 with additions)
Zhi Bao Dan (TCM)
Zi Xue Dan (TCM)

Zuo Gui Wan (TCM)

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