Cinnabar Paste，From *General Essentials of Health* (Vol. 5).，For acute and chronic convulsions, rolling eyes, clenched mouth, uncontrollable twitching, and high fever with severe lethargy.
Cinnabar Paste
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Formulas Name : Cinnabar Paste
Chinese Name : 南朱膏
Drug Formulation
2 liang of large Tiannanxing.
Source
From *General Essentials of Health* (Vol. 5).
Processing
Grind the above into a powder; mix it with bile extracted from a yellow ox in the twelfth lunar month, then return the mixture to the gallbladder. If only a small amount of bile is available, use it accordingly. Dry the mixture thoroughly and grind it into a fine powder. Add 1 qian of cinnabar powder and a small amount of musk. Decoct with licorice to form a paste, then shape into pills the size of a chicken’s head.
Benefits
For acute and chronic convulsions, rolling eyes, clenched mouth, uncontrollable twitching, and high fever with severe lethargy.
Instructions for Use
Administer one pill for every one and a half years of age, dissolved in boiled water, regardless of the time of day; if one gallbladder does not hold all the ground Pinellia, two gallbladders may be used.
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Cinnabar Paste,For acute and chronic convulsions, rolling eyes, clenched mouth, uncontrollable twitching, and high fever with severe lethargy.