bubble_chart Indications

Treating severe wind, heavy and restless limbs, and heart attack due to cold deficiency. Waitai is used to treat wind epilepsy.

bubble_chart Documentation

1. Yu Jia-yan said: Treating wind by expelling wind and tonifying deficiency, who cannot do it? As for the method of blocking and intercepting within the process of expelling and tonifying, it is beyond imagination. The formula uses alum stone to solidify and astringe various medicines, making them accumulate without dispersing, gradually filling the empty orifices, so that the old wind is completely expelled and new wind cannot enter. The nature of alum is such that it stops when cold and moves when hot, hence the advice to consume it cold. When apoplexy enters the viscera, Saposhnikovia Root is most effective as the evil takes advantage of the deficiency to rush into the heart, hence Chrysanthemum Flower is used as the principal ingredient. Zhang Zhongjing's formulation is uniquely ingenious, and this powder is the first to be cited for apoplexy, is it not deeply respected for its effectiveness? Later generations all use borneol and musk to lead wind into the heart, without knowing it is wrong, hence the mention of the Golden Chamber's Black Powder and Wind Guiding Decoction to clarify the treatment, borneol is also used. Attached is the Golden Chamber's Wind Guiding Decoction, Rhubarb Rhizoma, Dried Ginger, Fossil Bone, [each four taels] Cinnamon Twig [three taels], Liquorice Root, oyster shell [each two taels], Talc, Gypsum, Calcitum, red halloysite, Kaolinite, fluorite, [each six taels], pounded and sieved to take three pinches, boiled three times, taken warm, treats adult wind-induced paralysis, children's fright epilepsy spasm and convulsion, occurring dozens of times a day, Chao's used it to treat beriberi.
2. Note: The Black Powder and Wind Guiding Decoction, Yu considers them as Zhang Zhongjing's sacred formulas, while Cheng Yunlai's Golden Chamber Direct Interpretation, also says Hou's Black Powder Wind Guiding Decoction, Stephania and Rehmannia Decoction, head wind rubbing ointment, alum stone decoction, the indications are not apoplexy multiple arthralgia, it is the Song people's correction and addition of Tang people's formulas, then all deleted, also says: Zhang Zhongjing is the ancestor of formula books, would he take Hou's formula as a method? I say Zhang Zhongjing has many formulas, could they not be inherited, and must they be created by one person? If the formula is indeed good, even if it comes from Tang and Song, can it be deleted? But paralysis must be in people with insufficient qi and blood, Wind Guiding Decoction uses Rhubarb Rhizoma as the principal ingredient, and stone medicines make up the majority, does it not say that the qi of stone medicines is fierce? Although Yu deeply praises it, does he really know if it has been used to treat wind and achieved practical results? Or is it just speculation from outside? As for the Black Powder's principal ingredient Chrysanthemum Flower, plus qi and blood releasing exterior and phlegm-removing medicines, it is different from this.
3. Ang's note: Apoplexy is a critical condition, ancient good formulas are quite few, here recorded are the Life-Prolonging, Black Powder, Wind Guiding various formulas, mainly to preserve their origins.