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Imperial Canal Golden Water Formula

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Imperial Canal Golden Water Formula,For men and women suffering from bone consumption, dry blood consumption, or childhood consumption, with fever persisting day and night, and who are so critical that they refuse to take medicine.

Formulas Name : Imperial Canal Golden Water Formula

Chinese Name : 御沟金水方

Drug Formulation

Clean, uncontaminated yellow clay from the mountains.

Source

From *Eight Notes on Nurturing Life*, Volume 18.

Processing

Use eight yellow wicker baskets, each 2 chi high. Fill the eight baskets with soil and place them in eight porcelain bowls. Take seven buckets of a child’s urine and pour it into the soil in the eight baskets, letting it seep through. Then pour well water over the top to flush it down, collecting the mixture in one basket of soil. If the seepage is insufficient, use clean water to flush the liquid from the previous seven baskets, and add it to the first basket.Wait overnight until 3–5 bowls of clear liquid have been completely drained; collect it in a porcelain bottle and keep it in well water.

Benefits

For men and women suffering from bone consumption, dry blood consumption, or childhood consumption, with fever persisting day and night, and who are so critical that they refuse to take medicine.

Instructions for Use

Whenever this condition arises, wait until the patient feels thirsty and asks for tea; then have them drink half a cup of this liquid, and they will be relieved. Even in severe cases, three doses will be sufficient for a cure.

Imperial Canal Golden Water Formula,From *Eight Notes on Nurturing Life*, Volume 18.,For men and women suffering from bone consumption, dry blood consumption, or childhood consumption, with fever persisting day and night, and who are so critical that they refuse to take medicine.

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