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wick.992799
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Hello, travelers.

Few days ago i have finished my trip to china. I visited the center of traditional medicine. Somehow I've bought the medicine pills there and now I'm trying to figure out what I've bought.
Please help me understand what it is. Ideally, if I could find a description of these pills on the Internet, but unfortunately it fails.
Maybe someone can simply rewrite the text with Chinese heoroglifs, then after that, I could both translate and search for additional information.
Link with image bellow:
https://ibb.co/mEo7km
https://ibb.co/ckfTQm

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albeamer
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Saussurea?

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wick.992799
wick.992799

I would like to know ingredients.
And ideally, if I could find these pills online.

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rpbourne
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Take twice a day
Take 2 pills at a time
Must be 24 months to use.......

The ingredients aren't listed. It's a secret. Likely because it doesnt actually do anything but also possibly because some of the ingredients are toxic.

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bai3feng1
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Not sure how much help it will be, but the label states the ingredients 配料表 as being the following:
1. 雪莲 = Sassurea involucrate (snow lotus) that has been cultivated (not wild) 培养物。
2. 蔗糖 = cane sugar (sucrose)
3。淀粉 = starch
4。硬脂镁 = a magnesium salt of stearic acid
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wick.992799
wick.992799

Thank you very much!

It looks like it's more about the effects of placebo, rather than real health improvement.
It would be interesting to know now how much it costs. How much has anyone earned on my credulity.

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bai3feng1
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I didn't originally know anything about snow lotus, but I just now looked it up. Found a long Baidu article describing its place in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Traditional Tibetan Medicine (TTM.) It grows at high altitude in cold places and belongs to the thistle and daisy family of plants.

Seems that it has been around a long time and is used for a large variety of medical conditions, but I have no idea as to its efficacy. It is sometimes prescribed for altitude sickness.

Wikipedia has a list of other uses. (Search term: "saussurea." Apparently it's rather expensive, similar to ginseng in cost. Who knows, it might be great stuff.

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