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Divine Response Elixir for Nourishing the True

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Divine Response Elixir for Nourishing the True,Leg swelling affecting the Jueyin Liver Meridian results from the four pathogenic factors invading the liver, causing left-sided paralysis and right-sided weakness, excessive salivation, mental confusion, hemiplegia, numbness in the hands and feet, slurred speech, dizziness and vertigo,lockjaw, shortness of breath, spontaneous sweating, mental confusion, weakness and flaccidity of the limbs, symptoms rising to the head and eyes or descending to the feet and knees, stagnation of nourishing qi, and pain throughout the body. It also treats postpartum stroke in women with opisthotonos; injuries from falling from a cart or horse, or from blows and falls resulting in internal blood stasis.

Formulas Name : Divine Response Elixir for Nourishing the True

Chinese Name : 神应养真丹

Drug Formulation

Angelica sinensis (wine-infused), Gastrodia elata, Ligusticum chuanxiong, Notopterygium incisum, Paeonia lactiflora, and Rehmannia glutinosa—all in equal parts (one variant includes Carica papaya and processed donkey-hide gelatin in equal parts, omitting Notopterygium incisum).

Source

From *San Yin*, Volume 3.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder, mix with refined honey, and form into pills the size of a chicken egg yolk.

Benefits

Leg swelling affecting the Jueyin Liver Meridian results from the four pathogenic factors invading the liver, causing left-sided paralysis and right-sided weakness, excessive salivation, mental confusion, hemiplegia, numbness in the hands and feet, slurred speech, dizziness and vertigo,lockjaw, shortness of breath, spontaneous sweating, mental confusion, weakness and flaccidity of the limbs, symptoms rising to the head and eyes or descending to the feet and knees, stagnation of nourishing qi, and pain throughout the body. It also treats postpartum stroke in women with opisthotonos; injuries from falling from a cart or horse, or from blows and falls resulting in internal blood stasis.

Instructions for Use

Take 1 pill per dose, washed down with wine infused with wood apple and dodder seed; for leg numbness, wash down with wine infused with coix seed; for stroke, wash down with warm wine or rice porridge.

Divine Response Elixir for Nourishing the True,From *San Yin*, Volume 3.,Leg swelling affecting the Jueyin Liver Meridian results from the four pathogenic factors invading the liver, causing left-sided paralysis and right-sided weakness, excessive salivation, mental confusion, hemiplegia, numbness in the hands and feet, slurred speech, dizziness and vertigo,lockjaw, shortness of breath, spontaneous sweating, mental confusion, weakness and flaccidity of the limbs, symptoms rising to the head and eyes or descending to the feet and knees, stagnation of nourishing qi, and pain throughout the body. It also treats postpartum stroke in women with opisthotonos; injuries from falling from a cart or horse, or from blows and falls resulting in internal blood stasis.

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