Life-Restoring Ointment，From *Collected Proven Effective Formulas*, Volume 6.，Effective for all types of toxic sores, carbuncles, back abscesses, boils, scrofula, breast cancer, and phlegm nodules.
Life-Restoring Ointment
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Formulas Name : Life-Restoring Ointment
Chinese Name : 回生膏
Drug Formulation
8 liang of Sichuan fritillary bulb, 1 jin of cat’s-eye grass, 1 jin of summer-dried grass, and 20 jin of sesame oil.
Source
From *Collected Proven Effective Formulas*, Volume 6.
Processing
Soak the herbs in the oil: 5 days in winter, 3 days in summer, and 4 days in spring and fall. Place the mixture in a copper pot and simmer over a fire fueled by mulberry wood, starting gently and increasing the heat gradually, until the herbs are completely charred. Remove the residue. Then, roast 1 jin 8 liang of yellow丹 until it turns purple, wash it with water, and add it to the oil. The total mixture should consist of two parts oil to one part yellow丹. Using five branches—one each of peach, willow, locust, apricot, and mulberry—stir continuously by hand until the mixture reaches the consistency where a drop of water forms a bead.When preparing this ointment, cleanliness is of the utmost importance.
Benefits
Effective for all types of toxic sores, carbuncles, back abscesses, boils, scrofula, breast cancer, and phlegm nodules.
Instructions for Use
For back sores, boils, scrofula, breast cancer, and phlegm nodules—as well as all types of toxic sores—apply this ointment, and the toxic fluid will immediately drain out. Change the dressing three times a day; unbroken sores will dissipate, and those that have already ruptured will heal completely.
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Life-Restoring Ointment,Effective for all types of toxic sores, carbuncles, back abscesses, boils, scrofula, breast cancer, and phlegm nodules.