Great Life-Saving Pills，From *The Universal Remedies* (Vol. 176), citing *The Family Treasure of Health*.，For the three types of thirst disorders, where the patient drinks water day and night without ceasing, even after a hundred cups; for “mother-and-child” sores, which may appear on the back or between the temples; and for the five types of oozing sores.
Great Life-Saving Pills
Formulas Name : Great Life-Saving Pills
Chinese Name : 大救生丸
Drug Formulation
Oyster Shell (raw) 1 liang, Sophora Root (raw, ground into powder) 1 liang, Trichosanthes Fruit (raw, pounded) 1 liang, Anemarrhena Rhizome (raw, ground into powder) 1 liang,Mitsutōsō (raw) 1 liang, white wax (melted) 8 fen, mercury (ground) 8 fen, Huangdan half jin (ground). (One version includes Tianhuafen half liang; another version includes ash briquettes but omits Mitsutōsō).
Source
From *The Universal Remedies* (Vol. 176), citing *The Family Treasure of Health*.
Processing
Grind the ingredients into a fine powder.
Benefits
For the three types of thirst disorders, where the patient drinks water day and night without ceasing, even after a hundred cups; for “mother-and-child” sores, which may appear on the back or between the temples; and for the five types of oozing sores.
Instructions for Use
Place the medicine in one pig’s stomach, sew it shut with thread, and tie it with a rope to a new tile or brick to prevent it from rolling away; additionally, use half a jin of Trichosanthes root, finely chopped, and place it in water. Boil them together with the brick in one pot from morning until noon. In the morning, remove the pig’s stomach, finely chop it, and mix it with the powdered medicine to form pills the size of a Paulownia seed; air-dry them. Take 30 pills each time, washed down with rice water on an empty stomach, three times a day.
Note
Avoid alcohol, sexual activity, hot noodles, salty foods, pork, fish, scallions, garlic, and roasted or fried foods.
Great Life-Saving Pills,For the three types of thirst disorders, where the patient drinks water day and night without ceasing, even after a hundred cups; for “mother-and-child” sores, which may appear on the back or between the temples; and for the five types of oozing sores.