True amber, Indian yellow sandalwood (finely filed), ginseng (de-reeded), white poria (peeled), each 45 gm; licorice root 90 gm (de-noded); bitter orange and immature bitter orange, each 30 gm; cinnabar 150 gm (water-flyed); Chinese yam 500 gm (black skin removed); arisaema 30 gm (filed, crushed, fermented with the gall of a yellow ox in the twelfth lunar month, used after one summer); gold foil 100 pieces.

bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage

The above ingredients (except cinnabar and gold foil) are either sun-dried or baked (except sandalwood, which is not heated), then ground into powder and mixed evenly. Combine with cinnabar and gold foil (for every 30 grams, take 50 ml of freshly drawn well water and mix) in a mortar, lightly pound until even, and form into pills the size of a phoenix tree seed. When taking, dissolve in scallion or mint decoction; for severe phlegm congestion and cough, take with mild ginger decoction; for visible pox with fright, take with warm clean water; for palpitations and restlessness, take with rush pith decoction; for summer heat and confusion, take with Ophiopogon japonicus decoction. For infants within 100 days, divide each pill into three doses; for children over two years old, take 1-2 pills each time.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Expelling wind and resolving phlegm, calming the heart and clearing heat.

bubble_chart Indications

Common cold in children during the four seasons, with phlegm, cough, and shortness of breath; acute or chronic infantile convulsions, restlessness and irritability; and convulsions before the onset of rash in measles.