Tianlinggai Decoction，*Shenghui*, Volume 31.，For bone-consuming wasting disease, with pain in the limbs, stiffness and tension in the tendons and vessels, alternating chills and fever resembling malaria, progressive wasting and sallow complexion, and inability to eat or drink.
Tianlinggai Decoction
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Formulas Name : Tianlinggai Decoction
Chinese Name : 天灵盖饮子
Drug Formulation
Half a liang of Tianlinggai (coated with butter, lightly roasted until pale yellow, and ground into a powder), half a liang of softshell turtle shell (coated with vinegar, lightly roasted until pale yellow, with the frills removed, and ground into a powder), 10 peach kernels (soaked in hot water, with the skin, tip, and double kernels removed, then stir-fried with wheat bran until pale yellow), half a liang of Bupleurum (stems removed), half a liang of Anemarrhena,half liang of Artemisia annua, 1 fen of licorice (raw), half he of fermented soybean paste, and 2 stalks of scallion white (including roots).
Source
*Shenghui*, Volume 31.
Benefits
For bone-consuming wasting disease, with pain in the limbs, stiffness and tension in the tendons and vessels, alternating chills and fever resembling malaria, progressive wasting and sallow complexion, and inability to eat or drink.
Instructions for Use
Finely chop the ingredients, mix thoroughly, and soak them in 3 large bowls of children’s urine from noon until the fifth watch of the following day. Decoct to 1 bowl, strain out the residue, and take in two warm doses before meals; after taking the medicine, cover yourself with a blanket and lie down until sunrise. After a long time, examine the ten fingers: if there are hair-like strands between the joints, resembling lotus root threads, and they emit a foul odor when burned, those with white strands will surely recover; those with black strands are difficult to treat.
Note
Avoid amaranth.
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Tianlinggai Decoction,For bone-consuming wasting disease, with pain in the limbs, stiffness and tension in the tendons and vessels, alternating chills and fever resembling malaria, progressive wasting and sallow complexion, and inability to eat or drink.