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Eight-Ingredient Powder

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Eight-Ingredient Powder,For sores and scabies covering the entire body, with broken skin and painful flesh, or accompanied by itching and oozing pus.

Formulas Name : Eight-Ingredient Powder

Chinese Name : 八味散

Drug Formulation

Sichuan pepper (seeds removed) 1 liang, Evodia fruit (washed in hot water, dried in an oven, and stir-fried) 1 liang, rock salt (ground) 1 liang, mineral sulfur (ground) 1 liang, talcum powder (ground) 1 liang, white silkworm pupae (stir-fried) 1 liang, cypress bark 1 liang, a small amount of musk (ground).

Source

*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 11.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a powder.

Benefits

For sores and scabies covering the entire body, with broken skin and painful flesh, or accompanied by itching and oozing pus.

Instructions for Use

Apply by mixing with pig bile; if the affected area is moist, apply as a dry poultice.

Eight-Ingredient Powder,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 11.,For sores and scabies covering the entire body, with broken skin and painful flesh, or accompanied by itching and oozing pus.

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