Four-Yellow Life-Saving Pill

Four-Yellow Life-Saving Pill,During pregnancy, latent fire in the Heart and Spleen meridians rises upward, causing a swollen and painful tongue, or a “wooden tongue,” a “double tongue,” lips as if coated with cinnabar, a tongue with a soot-black halo, a tongue protruding beyond the teeth and lips and unable to retract, difficulty swallowing food and drink, the fetus pressing upward against the heart, extreme restlessness and a desire to die, with life hanging by a thread.

Formulas Name : Four-Yellow Life-Saving Pill

Chinese Name : 四黄夺命丹

Drug Formulation

Rhubarb, Scutellaria, Coptis, Phellodendron (all stir-fried with wine), Bile Star, Roasted Gardenia, Anemarrhena, Licorice, Dried Alum (use as appropriate), Bamboo Leaves (or add Amomum).

Source

From *Chen Su’an’s Supplementary Explanations on Gynecology*, Volume 3.

Benefits

During pregnancy, latent fire in the Heart and Spleen meridians rises upward, causing a swollen and painful tongue, or a “wooden tongue,” a “double tongue,” lips as if coated with cinnabar, a tongue with a soot-black halo, a tongue protruding beyond the teeth and lips and unable to retract, difficulty swallowing food and drink, the fetus pressing upward against the heart, extreme restlessness and a desire to die, with life hanging by a thread.

Four-Yellow Life-Saving Pill,From *Chen Su’an’s Supplementary Explanations on Gynecology*, Volume 3.,During pregnancy, latent fire in the Heart and Spleen meridians rises upward, causing a swollen and painful tongue, or a “wooden tongue,” a “double tongue,” lips as if coated with cinnabar, a tongue with a soot-black halo, a tongue protruding beyond the teeth and lips and unable to retract, difficulty swallowing food and drink, the fetus pressing upward against the heart, extreme restlessness and a desire to die, with life hanging by a thread.

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