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Enhanced Shouxing Pills

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Enhanced Shouxing Pills,Caused by shock or anxiety; phlegm accumulates in the pericardium; the spirit is unsettled; frequent forgetfulness; delirium and rambling speech; hallucinations; inability to sleep peacefully; or sudden attacks of wind-phlegm causing convulsions in the hands and feet; or heart deficiency with restlessness.

Formulas Name : Enhanced Shouxing Pills

Chinese Name : 加味寿星丸

Drug Formulation

Tiannanxing 3 liang, mother-of-pearl 1 qian, genuine amber 5 qian, round white Pinellia 5 liang, calcined alum 5 qian, cinnabar 1 liang (finely ground, used as a coating).

Source

From *De Xiao* (Effective Formulas), Volume 13.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder; mix with a paste made by boiling fresh ginger juice, then form into pills the size of a paulownia seed.

Benefits

Caused by shock or anxiety; phlegm accumulates in the pericardium; the spirit is unsettled; frequent forgetfulness; delirium and rambling speech; hallucinations; inability to sleep peacefully; or sudden attacks of wind-phlegm causing convulsions in the hands and feet; or heart deficiency with restlessness.

Instructions for Use

Take 35 pills per dose, washed down with light ginger decoction; for dyspnea, take with ginseng decoction; for palpitations, take with a decoction made in a gold or silver vessel using soil from the hearth; for upper-body heat and restlessness, take with light bamboo leaf decoction.Take with Ophiopogon Decoction; to calm the heart and steady the mind, take with Acorus Decoction; for severe phlegm and shortness of breath, take with Mulberry Bark Decoction; for acute convulsions in children, take with Ophiopogon and Green Bamboo Leaf Decoction; for chronic convulsions, take with Winter Melon Seed and Wood Fragrance Decoction.

Enhanced Shouxing Pills,From *De Xiao* (Effective Formulas), Volume 13.,Caused by shock or anxiety; phlegm accumulates in the pericardium; the spirit is unsettled; frequent forgetfulness; delirium and rambling speech; hallucinations; inability to sleep peacefully; or sudden attacks of wind-phlegm causing convulsions in the hands and feet; or heart deficiency with restlessness.

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