Costus root, raw white aconite, cinnamon, eucommia (coarse bark removed, stir-fried to remove fibers), magnolia bark (peeled, stir-fried with raw ginger juice and dried), ligusticum (remove roots and soil), angelica root, raw notopterygium root (de-reeded head), raw erythrina bark, angelica dahurica, chrysanthemum (de-soiled), achyranthes root (remove shoots, soaked in wine for one day, baked dry), white snake (soaked in wine for three days, peeled, bones removed, baked dry), stir-fried scorpion, clematis root (soaked in water, de-soiled), gastrodia (separately ground, de-soiled), angelica sinensis (de-reeded head, soaked in water, de-soiled, dried and weighed), raw vitex (peeled), tiger bone (soaked in wine or butter-roasted), arisaema (boiled in water five to seven times), large saposhnikovia root (de-reeded head, dried and weighed), raw Chinese yam, licorice (butter-roasted until slightly yellow), raw gastrodia, each 30 gm, musk 9 gm (genuine, separately ground), cinnabar (high quality) 45 gm.

bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage

Grind the above ingredients into fine powder, divide the medicine into 10 parts, mix evenly with 1 part of musk, make into pills with refined honey, as big as marbles. Take one pill each time, chew thoroughly and administer with wine, regardless of the time.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Nourish the defensive and nutritive qi, regulate the ascent and descent of yin-yang, and tonify the five zang-organs.

bubble_chart Indications

Weakness, apoplexy, crooked mouth and eyes, hemiplegia of hands and feet, spasticity of limbs, inability to bend or stretch, numbness and insensitivity, fright epilepsy and other illnesses, generalized cutaneous pruritus and pain, blurred vision and darkness; wind entering the abdomen causing acute pain, body feeling as if insects are crawling, mental confusion; common cold, miasma, migraine or general headache, various wind qi; or injury from cold substances causing severe pain in the heart and abdomen; or women before and after childbirth suffering from apoplexy with high fever, heavy headache, vertigo with a tendency to fall, qi block and blood stagnation.