Life-Saving Pills

Life-Saving Pills,For physical weakness where the yang meridians are affected by wind, causing symptoms to ascend to the head and face, accompanied by profuse sweating, aversion to wind, and headache; as well as for stroke occurring immediately after washing one’s hair, resulting in loss of voice and inability to speak.

Formulas Name : Life-Saving Pills

Chinese Name : 救生丸

Drug Formulation

Half a liang of Gastrodia elata, half a liang of Aconite root (roasted until cracked, with skin and pith removed), half a liang of Monasdae root (roasted until cracked, with skin and pith removed), half a liang of White Aconite root (roasted), half a liang of Tiannanxing, half a liang of Pinellia tuber(washed 7 times in boiling water, formed into cakes with ginger juice, and baked dry), half a liang of rhinoceros horn (ground into shavings, wrapped in paper, warmed in the bosom, then pounded), half a liang of cinnabar (ground), half a liang of Chuanxiong,half liang of Agastache leaves, half liang of Phellodendron leaves, half liang of Cinnamon (with coarse bark removed), half liang of Aquilaria, half liang of scorpion tails (roasted), half liang of white silkworm pupae (roasted), and half liang of ox bile (ground).

Source

*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 15.

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder. Mix with refined honey to form pills the size of a paulownia seed.

Benefits

For physical weakness where the yang meridians are affected by wind, causing symptoms to ascend to the head and face, accompanied by profuse sweating, aversion to wind, and headache; as well as for stroke occurring immediately after washing one’s hair, resulting in loss of voice and inability to speak.

Instructions for Use

For stroke patients who cannot speak, take 5 pills per dose. Use half a zhan of whey, take one willow branch from the southeast, 7 cun long, add 3 drops of raw oil to the whey, stir 49 times, then administer it; immediate recovery will follow. For children suffering from stroke, simply swallow 3 pills—each the size of a small bean—with whey.

Life-Saving Pills,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 15.,For physical weakness where the yang meridians are affected by wind, causing symptoms to ascend to the head and face, accompanied by profuse sweating, aversion to wind, and headache; as well as for stroke occurring immediately after washing one’s hair, resulting in loss of voice and inability to speak.

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