Jinghuang Decoction

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.

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,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.

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