Silver-Huang Dan

Instructions for Use

First, take a new, unused cauldron and place it over a moderate flame to warm the water. Add the mercury to the water; after a short while, add the sulfur. Use a willow-twig pestle to grind the mixture until it is thoroughly dissolved. Then remove the cauldron and let it cool; take out the contents and grind them finely. Take the mixture with warm wine or a child’s urine;For poisons from metals and minerals, grind with wine mixed with roasted chicken or duck droppings; for plague, grind with roasted ginger soup; for those who run wildly and do not recognize people, grind with ginger and honey water; for measles and smallpox sores, grind with ginger and honey water; for Yin and Yang toxins, three days after the onset of cold damage, grind with wine mixed with roasted scallions;For the five types of miasma, mix rhino horn powder with wine and grind it into a paste; for the five types of witchcraft poison, take 2 he of roasted black chicken droppings and 3 qian of hearth soil, boil them together in wine for 10 boils, strain out the dregs, grind the medicine into a paste, and take it at the beginning of the fifth watch; do not let your feet touch the ground—sit on the bed with your feet dangling while taking it;For possession by ghosts or fox spirits—where men experience mental confusion and women exhibit erratic behavior or suffer from a “ghost pregnancy”—use 7 peach kernels, remove the skins and tips, grind them finely, and mix with wine; for “ghost malaria” in men and women, mix with wine made from a pig’s gallbladder; for “flying corpses” or “escaping corpses,” use the aforementioned peach-branch wine; for “corpse-induced ailments” or “ghost-induced diseases,” mix with musk wine; for poison from drugged arrows, mix with wine made from white mulberry bark;For poison from house geckos or sand fleas, grind rhinoceros horn and Coptis, then mix with wine and take orally; for turtle-induced abdominal masses or tortoise-shell back pain, grind rhinoceros horn and musk, then mix with wine and take orally; for snake bites or tiger wounds, use roasted black chicken droppings mixed with wine and take orally; for cases of donkey saliva, horse sweat, or horse blood entering the flesh—resulting in loss of consciousness and near-death—take leech powder mixed with wine;For heart agitation and qi stagnation, take a decoction of honeysuckle steeped in wine; for heart pain and loss of breath, take stir-fried ginger mixed with salt and wine; for constipation, take fried scallions mixed with white wine; for urinary retention, take a decoction of Tongcao steeped in wine; for swollen toxins entering the abdomen, take ground rhinoceros horn mixed with wine; for beriberi affecting the heart, take soybean-infused wine; for smoke from copper or silver smelting furnaces entering the intestines, take fire-roasted scallions mixed with wine;For women suffering from blood-induced fainting, take it mixed with decocted Angelica wine; for sudden stroke in men or women, take it mixed with wine infused with stir-fried black chicken droppings; if the jaw is locked and the mouth cannot be opened, rub Pinellia powder on the teeth and apply it to both sides of the jaw to open the mouth for administering the medicine; for heart wind, place one live earthworm inside a raw green onion stalk, grind them together until pulpy, add a small amount of wine, strain to obtain one cup of clear liquid, and take it mixed with this liquid;For headaches, decoct goji berries in wine and grind into a paste to take; for a blocked or congested throat, grind peppermint in wine to take;For the 120 types of wind-induced epilepsy, mix with wine containing rat glue and administer; if someone dies suddenly and violently, grind with the clear liquid from cow or horse manure and administer; if the person has not regained consciousness, mix with a child’s urine and wine and administer; for those with fractures or who have not yet died, mix with Angelica wine and administer; for those who died from fright or terror, mix with musk wine and administer; for those on the verge of death due to evil spirits or enchantment, mix with freshly drawn water and hearth soil, grind, and administer;For death from internal heat with bleeding from the mouth and nose, mix with wine and ox bile and administer; for those who drowned, after draining the water from the body, place two pills of Pinellia powder mixed with freshly drawn water into the nostrils, then mix with wine and mugwort ash and administer; for those who died from spontaneous regurgitation, mix with wine and cock’s comb blood, along with a child’s urine, and administer; if there is excessive vomiting or diarrhea, mix one qian of mung bean powder with water and administer.