Bi Sheng Pills，*San Yin*, Volume 15.，For scrofula, regardless of whether the condition is chronic or recent, as well as small nodules on both sides of the back of the head, with several more extending backward, and for consumption accompanied by a mass in the abdomen.
Bi Sheng Pills
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Formulas Name : Bi Sheng Pills
Chinese Name : 必胜丸
Drug Formulation
1 crucian carp (remove the intestines, stomach, and roe; place 1 grain of realgar the size of a chicken’s egg and 1 qian of realgar inside the abdomen; place the fish belly-up over charcoal until the smoke dissipates; remove and fill the cavity with 1 whole centipede, half liang of Atractylodes, 5 gardenia fruits,2 soap pods (burned together), and 5 castor seeds (skinned and burned over a lamp flame); additionally, use 3 wen of yellow gelatin and 2 soap pods (skinned and roasted in ghee).
Source
*San Yin*, Volume 15.
Processing
Grind the ingredients into a powder.
Benefits
For scrofula, regardless of whether the condition is chronic or recent, as well as small nodules on both sides of the back of the head, with several more extending backward, and for consumption accompanied by a mass in the abdomen.
Instructions for Use
Separately, take 2 pieces of soapberry, remove the skin, and crush them. Add 3 bowls of water, squeeze out the juice, and strain out the residue. Simmer 4 liang of lean lamb meat until tender, then add 5 li of mercury oxide and half a liang of male breast milk. Grind everything together into a paste, mix with the medicinal powder, and form into pills the size of mung beans, coated with cinnabar.Take 10 pills each time, washed down with warm wine at dawn, once a day. By evening, the flesh-like lumps will be expelled. If there are five lumps on the neck, take five doses to remove them; adjust the number of doses according to the number of lumps present, and additional doses may be taken as needed. For heat-toxin sores or boils that have not yet formed a head, a single dose should be sufficient to disperse them.
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Bi Sheng Pills,For scrofula, regardless of whether the condition is chronic or recent, as well as small nodules on both sides of the back of the head, with several more extending backward, and for consumption accompanied by a mass in the abdomen.