Wu Fu Zi Jin Dan，*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 265.，
Wu Fu Zi Jin Dan
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Formulas Name : Wu Fu Zi Jin Dan
Chinese Name : 吴府紫金丹
Drug Formulation
Cinnabar 10 liang (finely ground; place in a silk bag lined with 5 cun of plain silk), Aconite Root 1.5 liang, Licorice 1.5 liang, Sichuan Aconite 3 liang, Atractylodes 3 liang, Wild Aconite 3 liang,3 liang of Zi Yuanhua (coarsely ground; use 1 chi 5 cun of raw silk to sew into 3 bags; divide the ingredients among the 3 bags; surround the 3 bags of herbs with the cinnabar bag inside; tie the bag openings tightly with a hemp cord; suspend them in a silver pot,and simmer in amniotic fluid for one day. Remove, untie the bags, and discard the herbs. Roast the cinnabar until dry, then place it in a mortar and grind it into a fine powder. Take a set of large and small water-fire cauldrons,dry them thoroughly over a fire. Coat the exterior of the large pot with ginger juice several times and let it dry. Place several large pieces of mica at the bottom of the pot, followed by 10 pieces of silver foil and 10 pieces of gold foil on top of the mica. Then add the cinnabar. Cover the cinnabar with another 10 pieces of gold foil and 10 pieces of silver foil, and top them with several more pieces of mica to seal the gold and silver foils.Next, place the small jar on top of the large jar’s opening. Seal the seam with a mixture of vinegar and cinnabar clay. Secure the two jars together with iron wire tied in a cross pattern, then seal the joint with salt clay approximately 1 fen thick,Let it air-dry. Build a kiln using brick mortar, 1.5 chi wide. Once dry, place 10 jin of well-burned charcoal at the bottom of the kiln. Suspend the medicine jar over the fire. Keep the upper and lower jars filled to the brim with water, replenishing as needed using a teapot,Add a slight ring of fire around all four sides of the jars to define the calcination area. For every 1 liang of cinnabar, approximately 8 liang of water should be evaporated; for 10 liang of cinnabar, use a total of 5 jin of water. Once the water has completely evaporated, remove the medicinal furnace and let it cool. Crack open the jars and extract the cinnabar, which has crystallized into a mirror-like mass. Discard all remaining sand and stones. Weigh the cinnabar to determine the amount needed, place it in a white silk bag,For every 1 liang of cinnabar, use 2 sheng of strong vinegar. Hang the cinnabar bag in a silver pot and boil until the vinegar is completely evaporated. Roast the cinnabar dry, then proceed to the next step to calcine it in a box. Add 4 liang of Tiannanxing, 4 liang of Diguipi, 4 liang of Sichuan pepper, and 4 liang of gallnut.
Source
*Formulas for Universal Relief*, Volume 265.
Processing
Grind the above ingredients into a coarse powder and mix thoroughly with honey. Take a sand box with a base diameter of 6 cun and a depth of 6 cun. First, spread a single layer of the honey-mixed herbs on the bottom of the box, about 1.5 cun thick. Cover this with a single layer of tangerine leaves, ensuring the herbs are completely covered. Next, split the cinnabar into several pieces,roll them in honey, wrap them in Kunlun paper, and arrange them on top of the tangerine leaves. Cover the cinnabar completely with another layer of tangerine leaves. Then fill the box completely with the honey-mixed herbs, seal it tightly, and use vinegar-mixed cinnabar clay to seal the seams. Secure it firmly with iron wire tied in a cross pattern. Wrap the box in salt-clay-soaked paper, with a layer of rehmannia and dragon dung on top, approximately 2 fen thick,let it air-dry in the shade, place it flat on the ground, and use 5 sheng of vinegar-soaked charcoal to form a (mound??), covering the cinnabar box—this is called the Laojun (mound??). Calcine it with 30 jin of yin-yang charcoal,until approximately 2–3 jin of embers remain. Remove the charcoal, cover the entire mound with one dan of raw earth, and leave it overnight. Open the (earth mound??), discard the herbs inside the box, blow away the paper ash from the cinnabar, and grind it finely in a mortar. Form into pills using rice paste; for every 1 liang of cinnabar, make 60–70 pills.
Instructions for Use
Take 3–5 pills per dose, on an empty stomach, washed down with a strong decoction of jujube.
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