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Cinnabar and Red Lead Powder,For smallpox where toxic qi attacks internally, causing mental confusion, fever, delirium, hallucinations of ghosts or spirits, muttering in sleep, or frantic running about, searching for clothes, or groping the bed.

Formulas Name : Cinnabar and Red Lead Powder

Chinese Name : 辰砂导赤散

Drug Formulation

Poria Sclerotium, Ginseng, Coptis (roasted), Gardenia Seed (roasted), Ophiopogon (core removed), Akebia, Acorus, Juncus, Cinnabar (ground separately), and Bovis Bile (ground separately).

Source

*Wan’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 6.

Benefits

For smallpox where toxic qi attacks internally, causing mental confusion, fever, delirium, hallucinations of ghosts or spirits, muttering in sleep, or frantic running about, searching for clothes, or groping the bed.

Instructions for Use

Decoct in water, add bamboo sap, then mix in the separately ground cinnabar and ox bile before taking.

Cinnabar and Red Lead Powder,*Wan’s Family Prescriptions*, Volume 6.,For smallpox where toxic qi attacks internally, causing mental confusion, fever, delirium, hallucinations of ghosts or spirits, muttering in sleep, or frantic running about, searching for clothes, or groping the bed.

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