Life-Taking Golden Pill

Life-Taking Golden Pill,For acute and chronic convulsions in children that cannot be treated with other medicines.

Formulas Name : Life-Taking Golden Pill

Chinese Name : 夺命金丹

Drug Formulation

Tiannanxing (ground into powder, mixed with the bile of a yellow ox in the 12th lunar month, placed inside the gallbladder, hung in a drafty place to air-dry; ready for use after 100 days) 1 liang, Curcuma zedoaria 1 liang, Gastrodia elata 1 liang, Fangfeng (stem removed) 1 liang,White Aconite Root (roasted) 1 liang, White Silkworm (roasted, with silk and mouth removed) 1 liang, Cinnabar (ground separately) 1 liang, Cicada Shedding (cleaned of soil) half a liang,2 qian of musk (ground separately), 21 pieces of Tianjiangzi (roasted), 1 red-footed centipede (make an incision along the spine, insert 1 qian of musk inside, then wrap in paper and bake until dry), half a qian of ox bile, 49 scorpion tails (roasted), and 1 dried toad (toasted until yellow, legs removed).

Source

From *Simple Formulas*, citing a secret formula from the *Huang Yi Chuan* (see *Collected Medical Formulas*, Vol. 258).

Processing

Grind the ingredients into a fine powder. Use water from an eastern-flowing stream to boil a wheat flour paste, then form it into pills the size of a chicken’s head and coat them with gold leaf.

Benefits

For acute and chronic convulsions in children that cannot be treated with other medicines.

Instructions for Use

For each dose, first administer half a qian of white powder (i.e., the “Qingzhou White Pills” from the *Bureau Formulary*, ground into powder) with peppermint decoction; then dissolve one pill in fresh ginger juice and administer it, regardless of the time of day.

Life-Taking Golden Pill,From *Simple Formulas*, citing a secret formula from the *Huang Yi Chuan* (see *Collected Medical Formulas*, Vol. 258).,For acute and chronic convulsions in children that cannot be treated with other medicines.

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