Spring-Revitalizing Powder for Dark Beards，*Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 10.，
Spring-Revitalizing Powder for Dark Beards
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Formulas Name : Spring-Revitalizing Powder for Dark Beards
Chinese Name : 乌髭借春散
Drug Formulation
Half a spoonful of cinnabar (first stir-fried until red, then soaked in vinegar overnight, and stir-fried again until dry), half a spoonful of barley flour, and half a spoonful of buckwheat flour (each of the three ingredients should be stir-fried separately).
Source
*Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 10.
Instructions for Use
First, wash the beard hair with rice washing water until it is thoroughly clean. Mix the three ingredients with vinegar and boil into a paste. While still hot, apply it slowly to the beard hair, wrap it with a lotus leaf, and then wrap it again with a silk cloth. This should be applied just before bedtime; remove it the next day, wash it off with warm rice washing water, and apply it again in the evening. Next, apply the following medicinal mixture: malachite, Hundred Herbs Decoction, gallnut, chebulic myrobalan, Polygonum multiflorum, and Chinese angelica—all in equal parts.Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder. For each application, take half a spoonful of the powder, mix it with half a spoonful of barley flour and half a spoonful of buckwheat flour, and stir in vinegar to form a paste. Apply the paste to the beard and mustache just before bedtime, wrap it with a lotus leaf as before, and wash it off with warm whey the next morning. This will darken the hair for two months.
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Spring-Revitalizing Powder for Dark Beards