Cuttlefish Bone Pills

Cuttlefish Bone Pills,For external eye obstructions, red opacities penetrating the pupil, and conditions where the patient feels as if something is clinging to the eye.

Formulas Name : Cuttlefish Bone Pills

Chinese Name : 海螵蛸丸

Drug Formulation

Sea squid (scraped off with a bamboo knife while soft, ground into a fine powder, washed with water, and sun-dried) 1 liang; cinnabar (ground into a fine powder and washed with water) 1 fen.

Source

From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 111.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder; melt good-quality wax and roll into pills the size of mung beans.

Benefits

For external eye obstructions, red opacities penetrating the pupil, and conditions where the patient feels as if something is clinging to the eye.

Instructions for Use

Take 1 pill at a time and place it on the outer canthus of the eye. Immediately proceed to the site of the opacity or cataract; if the opacity has disappeared, the pill will remain motionless at the canthus—a remarkably effective remedy.

Cuttlefish Bone Pills,From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 111.,For external eye obstructions, red opacities penetrating the pupil, and conditions where the patient feels as if something is clinging to the eye.

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