Metal canister with lid containing paper bag with one pellet of Hematite cylindrical canister has brown paper label wrapped around sides with two Chinese characters written in black ink on the front. Label is peeling off on one side. The lid of the tin is round and fits over the top of the canister and has remains of beige and red label around sides. Inside is brown paper bag with Chinese characters written in ink on the outside and is translated as Hematite - a red colored iron ore composwd of feric oxide. It is used to depress the retrograde motion o fenergy for the treatment of belch, nausea, vomiting and asthma and to subdue the hyperactivity of the liver for the treatment of headache vertigo and tinnitus, and as hemostatic for the treatment of spitting of blood and nose bleeding due to heat in the blood. Inside the bag is one reddish colored pellet and some powered residue.

1997.055.155