Jinghuang Decoction,From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 379), citing *Formulas for the Complete Care of Infants*.,For various forms of malnutrition and dysentery in children; food-induced indigestion and bloating; general emaciation with a large head; hair growing in tufts; high fever with loss of appetite; frequent drowsiness; decaying teeth; nasal sores; Dingxi syndrome with tidal fevers; abdominal distension; bone-wasting emaciation; and hard hair with a sallow complexion.
Jinghuang Decoction
Formulas Name : Jinghuang Decoction
Chinese Name : 井黄煎
Drug Formulation
1 toad (remove skin, bones, and internal organs; roast until charred; grind into powder; combine with 1 zhan of ash-free liquor and the juice extracted from 1 wild boar’s gallbladder; simmer into a paste), 1 fen of chela bark (roasted), 1 fen of shijunzi (shelled), 1 fen of hu huanglian, 1 fen of cicada slough, 1 fen of wushizi,Aloe (ground) 1 fen, Wu-yi 1 fen, bear bile 1 fen, night-bright sand 1 fen, cinnabar (ground) 1 fen, realgar 1 fen, wood fragrance 1 fen, nutmeg (shell removed; 0.5 fen in spring and summer, 1 fen in autumn and winter), ox bile (ground) 1 qian, musk (ground) 1 qian.
Source
From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 379), citing *Formulas for the Complete Care of Infants*.
Processing
Grind the ingredients into a fine powder and form into pills the size of a sesame seed using pig gall paste.
Benefits
For various forms of malnutrition and dysentery in children; food-induced indigestion and bloating; general emaciation with a large head; hair growing in tufts; high fever with loss of appetite; frequent drowsiness; decaying teeth; nasal sores; Dingxi syndrome with tidal fevers; abdominal distension; bone-wasting emaciation; and hard hair with a sallow complexion.
Instructions for Use
Take 5–7 pills per dose, washed down with rice water; for startle-induced wasting, take with Jinqian-Peppermint Decoction; for wasting with sores and abdominal distension, take with Peach Kernel-Anise Decoction; for intestinal parasites, take with Dong’an Pomegranate and Chinese Toon Root Decoction.
Note
Do not take this formula if the condition is accompanied by fever and dysentery.
Jinghuang Decoction,For various forms of malnutrition and dysentery in children; food-induced indigestion and bloating; general emaciation with a large head; hair growing in tufts; high fever with loss of appetite; frequent drowsiness; decaying teeth; nasal sores; Dingxi syndrome with tidal fevers; abdominal distension; bone-wasting emaciation; and hard hair with a sallow complexion.