bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage Cinnabar (Radix et Rhizoma Salviae Miltiorrhizae)
4.5gm Grind into fine powder, mix with snow water to form a paste, and shape into pills the size of millet grains. Take 7-8 pills each time, swallowed with rush stem tea.
bubble_chart Efficacy
Clearing heat and removing toxins, resuscitation, and calming the mind.
bubble_chart Indications
Warm pathogen inward invasion, heat invading the pericardium, fever with dysphoria, unconsciousness with delirious speech; apoplexy with phlegm-heat internal blockage, unconsciousness with slurred speech, and infantile convulsions, fever with convulsions.
bubble_chart Formula Principles
The formula uses Cow-Bezoar to clear the heart and remove toxins, resolve phlegm for resuscitation as the sovereign; Coptis Rhizome, Skullcap Root, and Gardenia to clear heat and purge fire as the ministers; Curcuma Root to open orifices with its aromatic properties, Cinnabar to calm the mind with its cold and heavy nature, used for resuscitation and calming the spirit, together as the assistants and messengers. The combination of these herbs works together to achieve the effects of clearing heat, removing toxins, and resuscitation to calm the spirit.
bubble_chart Modern Application
Modern medicine believes that this prescription has antibacterial properties, removes toxins, calms the mind, and has anticonvulsant effects. It is mainly used for: epidemic encephalitis B, viral encephalitis, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, schizophrenia, and cases presenting with fever, dysphoria, unconsciousness, and delirious speech.
