Great Blood-Activating Pill，From *Formulas for Treating Injuries and Fractures*.，For contusions, fractures, shattered bones, and torn tendons; pain and swelling; stagnant blood in the abdomen spreading to the limbs; restlessness and discomfort; boils and abscesses on the back; and rotting of muscles and flesh;various wind-related disorders, paralysis on the left or right side, and numbness in the hands and feet; women’s blood and qi disorders, postpartum stagnant blood that fails to circulate and flows into the limbs, swelling of the head and face, pain due to blood and qi imbalances, generalized pain and numbness, turbidity in the meridians, onset of wind-consumption, and aching pain in all joints.
Great Blood-Activating Pill
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Formulas Name : Great Blood-Activating Pill
Chinese Name : 大活血丹
Drug Formulation
1 jin of Tiannanxing (soaked in ginger juice overnight, then roasted), 1 jin of Peony (either red or white is acceptable), 1 jin of Dusuibu (roasted; those growing on rocks are best), 1 jin of black beans (boiled in wine, then roasted until dry), 1 jin of large chestnuts (ripe, peeled, and roasted),Chuanwu 1 jin (roasted), natural copper (calcined, quenched in vinegar to preserve its properties) half a jin, dragon’s blood 6 liang (ground separately), Asarum (stems and leaves removed) 10 liang, Angelica dahurica 1 jin, Trichosanthes (shell removed, finely sliced, stir-fried with wheat bran) half a jin, Sichuan Achyranthes (root base removed, soaked in wine, roasted) 1 jin,Myrrh 4 liang (ground separately; if unavailable, substitute with ground Agarwood), Frankincense half a jin (ground separately; if unavailable, substitute with three times the amount of Liquidambar resin), Charred Green Mulberry Wood 10 jin (select green mulberry wood as thick as an arm, remove bark and leaves, calcine over charcoal until red smoke rises, then quench with vinegar to form charcoal).
Source
From *Formulas for Treating Injuries and Fractures*.
Processing
Grind the six ingredients—mulberry, chestnut, soybean, Achyranthes, Pinellia, and myrrh—into a powder. Mix with the remaining ingredients and grind into a fine powder. Prepare a glutinous rice paste by boiling with rice vinegar, mix it into the powder, and pound in a mortar with a thousand strokes of the pestle. Gather a group of people to quickly form the pills by hand; if the process is even slightly delayed, the mixture will fall apart. Air-dry in the shade for half a month, then bake over a fire or sun-dry for one day. Each large pill weighs 6 wen;while the “Moisture-Relieving Pills” weigh 3 wen each. If the mixture is too moist, apply lacquer to your hands, take 2–3 pills, and roll them in the lacquer to form a coating.
Benefits
For contusions, fractures, shattered bones, and torn tendons; pain and swelling; stagnant blood in the abdomen spreading to the limbs; restlessness and discomfort; boils and abscesses on the back; and rotting of muscles and flesh;various wind-related disorders, paralysis on the left or right side, and numbness in the hands and feet; women’s blood and qi disorders, postpartum stagnant blood that fails to circulate and flows into the limbs, swelling of the head and face, pain due to blood and qi imbalances, generalized pain and numbness, turbidity in the meridians, onset of wind-consumption, and aching pain in all joints.
Instructions for Use
Take half a pill per dose, ground with ash-free wine, simmer gently for 3–5 boils, and drink while warm, regardless of the time of day; if the condition affects the upper body, take after meals; if it affects the lower body, take on an empty stomach.
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Great Blood-Activating Pill,For contusions, fractures, shattered bones, and torn tendons; pain and swelling; stagnant blood in the abdomen spreading to the limbs; restlessness and discomfort; boils and abscesses on the back; and rotting of muscles and flesh;various wind-related disorders, paralysis on the left or right side, and numbness in the hands and feet; women’s blood and qi disorders, postpartum stagnant blood that fails to circulate and flows into the limbs, swelling of the head and face, pain due to blood and qi imbalances, generalized pain and numbness, turbidity in the meridians, onset of wind-consumption, and aching pain in all joints.