Cicada Shedding Cake

Cicada Shedding Cake,For cold-induced tearing of the eyes.

Formulas Name : Cicada Shedding Cake

Chinese Name : 蝉蜕饼子

Drug Formulation

Cicada Shedding (washed, roasted) 1 liang; Eupatorium (fresh) 1 liang; Chrysanthemum flowers 1 liang; Ligusticum root 2 liang; Schizonepeta spikes 2 liang; Licorice (roasted, chopped) half a liang; Atractylodes (soaked in rice water, sliced, roasted) 3 liang.

Source

*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 107.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills, and shape them into cakes the size of a coin.

Benefits

For cold-induced tearing of the eyes.

Instructions for Use

Take one cake per dose; chew it thoroughly with waxed tea a good while after a meal, three times daily.

Cicada Shedding Cake,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 107.,For cold-induced tearing of the eyes.

More Herbs Formulas

Sacred Marvel Powder

Sacred Marvel Powder,From *Ji Feng*, Volume 20.,Promotes the flow of qi and treats conditions involving qi stagnation in the chest and diaphragm.

Magnolia and Seven Jujube Decoction

Magnolia and Seven Jujube Decoction,*Ji Feng*, Volume 14.,Weakness of the spleen and stomach, with internal cold transforming into pathogenic cold; diarrhea and profuse watery stools; undigested food and water passing undistinguished; distension and fullness in the abdomen and flanks; pain in the umbilical region and abdomen; hollow rumbling sounds in the abdomen; vomiting and nausea; … Read more

Decoction to Open the Orifices

Decoction to Open the Orifices,*Elucidation of Ophthalmology*, Volume 2.,Cloudy opacities in the eyes.

Jixian Pill

Jixian Pill,From *Outline of Surgical Treatise on Ulcers*, Volume 2.,For sores and ulcers where pus and toxins have not yet dissipated and necrotic tissue has not sloughed off.

Qu Mai Bu Zhong Decoction

Qu Mai Bu Zhong Decoction,*Yi Ji*, Volume 8.,For central deficiency with mild stagnation and reduced appetite.

White Peony Pill

White Peony Pill,*Ji Feng*, Volume 18.,Exhaustion-induced dysuria, lower abdominal pain, and difficulty urinating.

Universal Amber Ointment

Universal Amber Ointment,From *Effective Emergency Remedies*.,Effective for all types of ringworm, scabies, and tubercles; for boils and abscesses in the early stages that have already ruptured; and for bleeding or gangrenous knife wounds.

Huan Yuan Water

Huan Yuan Water,*Collected Explanations of Medical Formulas*.,Coughing up blood, vomiting blood, postpartum blood loss, chronic cough due to yin deficiency, and intense heat sensation as if burning.

Yongquan Shenying Powder

Yongquan Shenying Powder,From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 325), citing *Formulas from the Hall of Virtue*.,When a woman experiences engorgement or swelling and pain in both breasts, it is diagnosed as a breast abscess.

Mica Powder

Mica Powder,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 77.,Chronic diarrhea persisting for years without resolution.

Decoction for Tonifying the Lungs and Clearing the Metal

Decoction for Tonifying the Lungs and Clearing the Metal,*Medical Case Records of Ma Peizhi*.,Chicken-chest, turtle-back posture, weak and rapid pulse, fever, and poor appetite.

Qianghuo Shengfeng Decoction

Qianghuo Shengfeng Decoction,From *Yuanji Qiwei*, Volume 2.,Sudden onset of wind-heat causing eye pain.

Floating Duckweed, Pueraria Root, and Pinellia Decoction

Floating Duckweed, Pueraria Root, and Pinellia Decoction,From *Si Sheng Xuan Shu*, Volume 2.,For warm epidemics with Yangming meridian symptoms accompanied by vomiting.

Ninghe Tang Navel-Warming Ointment

Ninghe Tang Navel-Warming Ointment,*Chuanya Neibian*, Volume 1.,Watery diarrhea, white dysentery.

Ginseng Decoction for Stopping Vomiting

Ginseng Decoction for Stopping Vomiting,From *Shān Fán Fāng*, cited in Volume 6 of *Wài Tái*.,For heat in the lower jiao, qi reversal with interrupted flow, persistent vomiting, and a constant urge to eat.

Lüjin Dan

Lüjin Dan,From *Collected Formulas of the Crane-Feeding Pavilion*.,Throat fungus. For cases caused by yin deficiency with intense internal heat; also treats throat obstruction due to deficiency-cold and white termites.

Heart-Opening Cinnabar Pills

Heart-Opening Cinnabar Pills,From *The Essentials of Charity* (cited in *Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 88).,For all cases of wind-induced drooling and sudden onset of symptoms, leading to delirious speech, resembling a heart wind disorder.

Cooling Decoction

Cooling Decoction,From *Symptoms, Causes, Pulse, and Treatment*, Volume 3.,For fire that injures the blood, causing bodily swelling.

Croton Seed and Spider Thread

Croton Seed and Spider Thread,From *A Study of Thirteen Surgical Formulas*.,Hemorrhoids and fistulas.

Shen Family Biquan Pills

Shen Family Biquan Pills,From *A Clear Illumination of the Origins and Course of Miscellaneous Diseases*, Volume 7.,For bedwetting in children caused by excess heat or cold.

Tissue-Regenerating and Skin-Restoring Powder

Tissue-Regenerating and Skin-Restoring Powder,*Treatise on Childbirth*.,For perineal lacerations during childbirth.

Pills for Breaking Up Masses

Pills for Breaking Up Masses,From *Pulse Causes and Treatment*, Volume 2.,For abdominal masses.

Decoction of Two Resins

Decoction of Two Resins,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 32.,For loss of voice due to typhoid fever.

Sulfur Bu’er Powder

Sulfur Bu’er Powder,*Authentic Treatise on Surgery*, Volume 3.,For syphilitic sores caused by syphilis, manifesting in the throat with ulceration and pain, making it difficult to swallow liquids.

Enhanced Yiyuan Powder

Enhanced Yiyuan Powder,*Jiyang Gangmu*, Volume 91.,Qi stagnation, sudden onset of dysuria with severe pain.