Tongue Turns Scarlet

Tongue Turns Scarlet,For carbuncles and unexplained toxic swellings.

Formulas Name : Tongue Turns Scarlet

Chinese Name : 舌化丹

Drug Formulation

Cinnabar, dragon’s blood, borax, frankincense (oil removed), myrrh (oil removed), realgar, toad venom (dissolved in human milk), mercury oxide, borneol, and musk—each in equal parts.

Source

From *The Comprehensive Treatise on Surgical Diseases*, Volume 7.

Processing

Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder; mix with fresh breast milk from a first-time mother and knead into pills the size of a wheat grain.

Benefits

For carbuncles and unexplained toxic swellings.

Instructions for Use

Take 3 pills at a time, hold them under the tongue until they dissolve, then swallow; the condition will resolve on its own as you sweat; if no sweat occurs, induce sweating with hot wine.

Tongue Turns Scarlet,From *The Comprehensive Treatise on Surgical Diseases*, Volume 7.,For carbuncles and unexplained toxic swellings.

More Herbs Formulas

Hua Fan Pills

Hua Fan Pills,*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicines* (Tianjin Formula).,For vaginal itching, swelling, and pain caused by damp-toxin, as well as persistent, intermittent leukorrhea.

Four Substances Decoction with Prepared Rehmannia and Angelica

Four Substances Decoction with Prepared Rehmannia and Angelica,From *The Mystic Pearl of Chishui*, Volume 20.,Scanty menstrual flow with a normal color.

Agarwood Eternal Life Pills

Agarwood Eternal Life Pills,From *Formulas of De Sheng Tang*, cited in *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 219).,

Cinnamon Twig Wine

Cinnamon Twig Wine,The formula is from *De Xiao* (Vol. 8); the name appears in *Pu Ji Fang* (Vol. 219).,For cases of yang-depletion syndrome following severe vomiting and diarrhea, characterized by cold extremities, depleted vital energy, and loss of consciousness; or for cases where, after recently recovering from cold damage, one mistakenly engages in sexual activity, … Read more

Trismus Pill

Trismus Pill,From *Pulse Patterns, Causes, and Treatments*, Volume 1.,For lockjaw dysentery accompanied by vomiting and inability to eat; also treats dysentery with vomiting of food.

Yangqishi Decoction

Yangqishi Decoction,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 153.,For women with a cold and deficient Blood Sea, excessive bleeding, leukorrhea, and various deficiency-cold disorders.

Ginger, Aconite, Red Ocher, and Cinnabar Pill

Ginger, Aconite, Red Ocher, and Cinnabar Pill,From *This Matter Is Hard to Know*.,Frequent and uncontrollable urination; palpitations and forgetfulness; persistent nightmares; deficiency-cold in the lower jiao; enuresis; seminal leakage; or unceasing seminal leakage due to yang deficiency; or kidney qi deficiency-cold; spleen-induced diarrhea and kidney-induced diarrhea.

Cough-Relieving Pills

Cough-Relieving Pills,*Compendium of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas*.,For wind-heat cough.

Secret-Recipe Qianghuo Life-Preserving Decoction

Secret-Recipe Qianghuo Life-Preserving Decoction,From *Songya Medical Path* (Volume 2).,For back abscesses, boils, carbuncles, scrofula, and toxic sores arising from bowel disorders—within the first ten days of onset, when the affected area is red, swollen, and painful.

Black-and-White Worm-Extraction Pills

Black-and-White Worm-Extraction Pills,From *Introduction to Medicine*, Volume 7.,For parasitic infections causing abdominal pain, as well as loss of voice due to lung obstruction.

Kidney-Nourishing Decoction

Kidney-Nourishing Decoction,*Treatise on Warm Diseases* (Wen Bing Tiao Bian), Volume 3.,For cases where prolonged dampness has depleted spleen yang and also exhausted kidney yang.

Pangolin Scale Powder

Pangolin Scale Powder,From *Yi Ji*, Volume 9.,For women with stagnation of pathogenic heat in the liver and stomach, leading to internal or external abscesses, alternating chills and fever, distension, pain, heat, and swelling, with signs of an impending abscess.

Yang-Restoring Powder

Yang-Restoring Powder,From *Formulas of the Imperial Pharmacy*, Volume 8.,For all types of spontaneous sweating, night sweats, and wind-induced sweating.

Clove and Bamboo Shavings Decoction

Clove and Bamboo Shavings Decoction,From *Yu’an*, Volume 4.,Qi stagnation in the middle jiao, accompanied by hiccups in the upper jiao.

Disinfecting Decoction (Modified)

Disinfecting Decoction (Modified),From *The Golden Mirror*, Volume 76.,Toxic heat syndrome from carbuncles; heat sores.

Five-Flower Powder

Five-Flower Powder,*Compilation of Hua’s Medical Formulas*, Volume 2.,For all types of swollen abscesses, whether already ulcerated or not yet ulcerated.

Pomegranate-Infused Wine

Pomegranate-Infused Wine,*Shenghui*, Volume 24.,For severe wind-induced disorders, heat-toxin affecting the head and face, skin sores, facial nodules, and loss of eyebrows.

Ganlu Tea

Ganlu Tea,*Easy and Convenient Medical Book*, Volume 1.,Headaches and fever; chest fullness and oppression; stagnation of qi; disharmony of the spleen and stomach; food stagnation; cholera with vomiting and diarrhea; as well as pathogenic factors of the four seasons; malaria; red and white dysentery; and summer heat-induced indigestion.

Divine Power Decoction

Divine Power Decoction,*Shengji Zonglu*, Volume 12.,For wind-induced fatigue and cold qi, as well as cold qi in the bladder, manifesting as piercing pain in the abdomen; also treats women’s blood wind, blood qi disorders, and typhoid fever.

Mu Yi

Mu Yi,Formula from *Yu Heng on Shā and Distension* (Middle Volume); name cited in *Complete Book on Shā Syndromes* (Lower Volume).,For children experiencing shā-zhuàng (eruptive swelling) prior to smallpox, with restlessness in the chest and heart, phlegm obstruction, and even severe coma and loss of consciousness, accompanied by a slippery and rapid pulse.

Muxiang-Baizhu Pills

Muxiang-Baizhu Pills,*Ji Feng*, Volume 14.,For dysentery with foul-smelling stools.

Rhubarb Poultice Formula

Rhubarb Poultice Formula,*Shengji Zonglu*, Vol. 135.,Toxic swelling; initial symptoms of swelling and pain.

Milk-Inducing Powder

Milk-Inducing Powder,From *Formulas for Universal Relief* (Vol. 400), citing *Formulas for the Care of Infants*.,For infants who are pale and emaciated from drinking their mother’s breast milk.

Great Tonifying Huangting Pills

Great Tonifying Huangting Pills,From *Zhang’s Comprehensive Treatise on Medicine*, Volume 13.,For cases of consumptive disease with poor appetite and loose stools, where yin-nourishing herbs are contraindicated.

Wind-Dispelling Ointment

Wind-Dispelling Ointment,*Hui Chun*, Volume 5.,For nodules forming in the throat and neck, as well as scrofula.