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Deficient Wind Pills,For all conditions involving deficiency-wind, such as mental confusion and drowsiness, dizziness and vertigo, ringing in the ears, coldness and numbness of the lips and face, facial paralysis, slurred speech, stiffness at the base of the tongue, clouded consciousness, and uncontrollable drooling.

Formulas Name : Deficient Wind Pills

Chinese Name : 虚风丸

Drug Formulation

White Aconite Root (roasted and cracked) 1 liang, Tiannanxing (roasted and cracked) 1 liang, Aconite (roasted and cracked, with skin and pith removed) 1 liang, Tianxiong (roasted and cracked, with skin and pith removed) 1 liang, Fangfeng (with forks removed) 1 liang, Tianma 1 liang, Aconite Root (roasted and cracked, with skin and pith removed) 1 liang, Chuanxiong 1 liang, Ginseng 1 liang,Poria (with black skin removed) 1 liang, Polygonum aviculare wood 1 liang, Black Snake meat (soaked in wine, roasted) 1 liang, White Fresh Bark 1 liang, Angelica dahurica 1 liang, Ephedra (with roots and nodes removed) 1 liang, Asarum (with shoots and soil removed) 1 liang, Evodia fruit (roasted) 1 liang,Licorice (roasted) 1 liang, Realgar (ground separately to a fine powder) 1 liang, Bovine Bile (ground separately to a fine powder) 1 liang, Cinnabar (ground separately to a fine powder) 1 liang, Scorpion Tail 1 fen (roasted), Borneol 1 fen (ground separately to a fine powder), Musk half a liang (ground separately to a fine powder).

Source

From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 5.

Processing

Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder, mix with refined honey, and form into pills the size of a cherry.

Benefits

For all conditions involving deficiency-wind, such as mental confusion and drowsiness, dizziness and vertigo, ringing in the ears, coldness and numbness of the lips and face, facial paralysis, slurred speech, stiffness at the base of the tongue, clouded consciousness, and uncontrollable drooling.

Instructions for Use

Take 1 pill at a time, chewed with Jingjie Decoction, or dissolved in the decoction; there is no specific time restriction for administration.

Deficient Wind Pills,From *Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 5.,For all conditions involving deficiency-wind, such as mental confusion and drowsiness, dizziness and vertigo, ringing in the ears, coldness and numbness of the lips and face, facial paralysis, slurred speech, stiffness at the base of the tongue, clouded consciousness, and uncontrollable drooling.

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