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White Flower Snake Pills,For acute stroke: locked jaw, stiff neck, spasms in the hands and feet, blue lips, and a dark complexion.

Formulas Name : White Flower Snake Pills

Chinese Name : 白花蛇丸

Drug Formulation

3 liang of White-flowered Snake (soaked in wine; remove skin and bones;roasted until slightly yellow), 2 liang of dried scorpion (lightly roasted), 1 liang of white silkworm pupae (lightly roasted), 1 liang of white aconite root (cracked by roasting), half a liang of Sichuan aconite (cracked by roasting, with skin and navel removed), half a liang of Tiannanxing (cracked by roasting), half a liang of ox bile (finely ground), 1 liang of Fangfeng (with root tip removed), 1 liang of cinnamon bark,Ephedra 1 liang (roots and nodes removed), deer antler gelatin 1 liang (crushed, stir-fried until yellow and dry), mulberry cuttlefish bone half a liang (lightly stir-fried), Pinellia 1 liang (soaked in boiling water 7 times to remove slime), cinnabar 3 fen (finely ground, washed with water), realgar half a liang (finely ground, washed with water).

Source

From *Shenghui*, Volume 22.

Processing

Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder and mix thoroughly. Take 3 liang of Tianma, pound and sift it into a powder. Simmer it with 1 large bowl of ash-free wine over low heat until it becomes a paste. Mix this paste with the medicinal powder, then pound it again to form pills the size of a tung tree seed.

Benefits

For acute stroke: locked jaw, stiff neck, spasms in the hands and feet, blue lips, and a dark complexion.

Instructions for Use

Take 10 pills at a time, ground with mint wine, regardless of the time of day.

White Flower Snake Pills,From *Shenghui*, Volume 22.,For acute stroke: locked jaw, stiff neck, spasms in the hands and feet, blue lips, and a dark complexion.

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