Twenty-Five Herbs

Twenty-Five Herbs,For injuries from falls or blows, fractures, and severed tendons with stabbing pain, regardless of severity.

Formulas Name : Twenty-Five Herbs

Chinese Name : 二十五味药

Drug Formulation

Fragrant White Angelica (vinegar-fried) 1 liang, Zijingpi (vinegar-fried) 1 liang, Liu Jinu 1 liang, Sichuan Angelica (salt-fried) 1 liang, Red Peony Root (soaked in rice washing water) 1 liang, Black Pharbitis 1 liang, Sichuan Achyranthes (soaked in tea water) 1 liang, Raw Rehmannia (soaked in salt water, then fried) 1 liang,Chuanxiong 1 liang, Frankincense 1 liang, Myrrh 1 liang, Pogostemon (vinegar-fried) 1 liang, Akebia 1 liang, Natural Copper 1 liang, Aconite (vinegar-fried) 1 liang, Wood Fragrance 1 liang, Sichuan Aconite (fire-roasted) 1 liang,Agastache 1 liang, Dipsacus asper 1 liang, Equisetum 1 liang, Cinnamomum cassia 1 liang, Notopterygium 1 liang, Angelica pubescens 1 liang, Prepared Rehmannia (stir-fried in salt water) half a liang, Achyranthes bidentata (stir-fried in tea water) half a liang.

Source

From *Remarkably Effective Formulas*, Volume 56.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills the size of a marble, and coat them with yellow丹.

Benefits

For injuries from falls or blows, fractures, and severed tendons with stabbing pain, regardless of severity.

Instructions for Use

For contusions and injuries, as well as wounds from metal blades or arrowheads—regardless of severity—take 1 pill per dose, dissolved in warm wine, or chew it finely and swallow with wine; for completely severed wounds caused by blades or severe internal injuries, the pill may be taken with peppermint decoction, wood apple decoction, ginger decoction, or lampwick decoction. If the condition is in the upper part of the body, take after a meal; if in the lower part, take before a meal; if in the middle, take at any time.

Twenty-Five Herbs,From *Remarkably Effective Formulas*, Volume 56.,For injuries from falls or blows, fractures, and severed tendons with stabbing pain, regardless of severity.

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