Hou’s Black Powder

Hou’s Black Powder,For severe wind-induced restlessness and heaviness in the limbs, wind-induced mania, and stroke-induced paralysis.

Formulas Name : Hou’s Black Powder

Chinese Name : 侯氏黑散

Drug Formulation

Chrysanthemum flowers 40 fen, White Atractylodes 10 fen, Asarum 3 fen, Poria 3 fen, Oyster shell 3 fen, Platycodon root 8 fen, Fangfeng 10 fen, Ginseng 3 fen, Alum 3 fen, Scutellaria root 5 fen, Angelica root 3 fen, Dried ginger 3 fen, Ligusticum root 3 fen, Cinnamon twig 3 fen.

Source

*Jin Gui* (The Golden Chamber), Volume 1.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a powder.

Benefits

For severe wind-induced restlessness and heaviness in the limbs, wind-induced mania, and stroke-induced paralysis.

Instructions for Use

Take one fangcun bi per dose, washed down with wine, once daily. For the first 20 days, take the medicine mixed with warm wine. Thereafter, take it with cold food for 60 days. If the medicine accumulates in the abdomen and does not pass, consuming hot food will help it pass; cold food naturally enhances the medicine’s efficacy.

Note

Avoid all fish, meat, and garlic; avoid peaches, plums, sparrow meat, cilantro, bluefish, and fresh vinegar-based foods; pregnant women should not take this formula.

Hou’s Black Powder,*Jin Gui* (The Golden Chamber), Volume 1.,For severe wind-induced restlessness and heaviness in the limbs, wind-induced mania, and stroke-induced paralysis.

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