bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage Grind the medicine into fine powder, take 5 grams each time, three times a day; take with 1.5 grams of cinnabar and 60 milliliters of yellow wine.
bubble_chart Efficacy
Dispelling wind and relieving convulsion, dredging collaterals and relieving pain.
bubble_chart Formula Principles
In the formula, Cicada Slough is sweet in taste and cold in nature, clearing away heat, light and dispersing, especially effective in dispelling wind and relieving convulsion, making it the primary herb for clearing and dispersing lung and liver wind-heat. Arisaema is bitter, warm, and intensely pungent, with strong opening and discharging effects, also good at dispelling wind and relieving convulsion. Gastrodia Tuber is pungent, sweet, and neutral in nature, specializing in pacifying the liver and extinguishing wind. When paired with Arisaema, its ability to stop convulsions is enhanced, serving as an auxiliary herb. Scorpion and Stiff Silkworm are both powerful in extinguishing wind to arrest convulsion and have the additional effects of resolving phlegm and relieving pain, used as supplementary herbs. Cinnabar is used to calm fright and tranquilize the mind, and can also clear heat and remove toxins. When these herbs are combined, wind is dispersed and convulsions are relieved, thus curing "all sudden and strong rigidity".
bubble_chart Modern Application
Modern medicine believes that this prescription has sedative, anticonvulsant, skeletal muscle relaxant, antiepileptic, analgesic, and phlegm-dispelling effects. It is mainly used for: traumatic epilepsy, tetanus, presenting with clenched jaw, convulsions in the hands and feet, opisthotonos, or foaming at the mouth.
