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Fang nameFive Tigers Wind-Chasing Powder
sourceShi Quan'en's Family Recipe
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[Preparation method and dosage]

Cicada Slough (Periostracum Cicadae) 30gm
Arisaema (Rhizoma Arisaematis) 6gm
Gastrodia Tuber (Rhizoma Gastrodiae) 6gm
Scorpions (Scorpio) 9
Stiff Silkworm (Bombyx Batryticatus) 9 items

Grind the above ingredients into fine powder and take 5 gm at a time, 3 times a day; 1.5 gm of cinnabar and 60 ml of rice wine.

[Efficacy]

dispelling wind and relieving convulsion, dredging collaterals and relieving pain.

[Prescription]

Cicada Slough herbs in the prescription are sweet in taste and cold in nature clearing away heat, frivolous and dissipating, good at dispelling wind and relieving convulsion. It is a product for clearing away liver wind heat in the lungs and is the main medicine. Arisaema is bitter, warm and pungent, has a strong opening and discharging effect, and is also good at dispelling wind and relieving convulsion. Gastrodia Tuber is pungent and sweet in nature, specializing in pacifying the liver and extinguishing wind, together with the southern star, its antispasmodic power is even stronger, and both are auxiliary drugs; scorpion and Stiff Silkworm are both powerful extinguishing wind to arrest It is a convulsion medicinal and has resolving phlegm and analgesic effects, so it can be used as an adjunct; Cinnabar can calm the nerves, clear heat and remove toxin. With the combination of various medicines, the wind and spasms can be relieved, and then the "violent ankylosis" can be cured.

[Modern application]

Modern medicine believes that this prescription is sedative, anti-convulsant, relaxing striated muscles, anti-epileptic, analgesic, and dispelling phlegm. Mainly used for: traumatic epilepsy, tetanus, trismus, convulsion of hands and feet, opisthotonus or foaming at the mouth.

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