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[SOURCE]: Prescription of Peaceful Benevolent Dispensary
[INGREDIENTS]:
Bighead atractylodes rhizome 60g Dutchmanspipe root 60g Rhinoceros horn 6〇g
Nutgrass -flatsedge rhizome(stir-fried, remove the hair) 60g Cinnabar (ground, refined with water) 60g Myrobalan fruit(roasted in ashes) 60g White sandal wood 6〇g
Benzoin(ground into powder, decocted in a liter of limeless liquor into extract) 6〇g
Eagle wood 6〇g Cloves 60g Long pepper 6〇g Musk 6〇g Borneol ( ground) 30g
Oriental sweetgum resin(mixed with the extract Benzoinum) 3〇g 01ibanum(ground alone) 30g
[DIRECTIONS]: Grind the above-mentioned ingredients into fine powder and then mix them with honey to make into boluses, each weighing 3 grams. Take one bolus each time with warm boiled water. Half dosage for children.
[EFFECTS]: Openning orifices with aromatics and activating qi to stop pain.
[INDICATIONS]: Wind-stroke, direct cold-attack, attack of pestilent factors, phlegm-syncope, qi-syncope and others belonging to closure syndrome marked by
falling down in a fit, lock-jaw, loss of consciousness, or sudden pain in the chest and abdomen and fainting caused by qi stagnation due to direct cold-attack.
[ANALYSIS OF FORMULA]: Oriental sweetgum resin, musk, borneol and benzoin are used as principal herbs to open orifices. Nutgrass flatsedge rhizome, dutchmanspipe root, cloves, eagle wood, olibanum, and white sandal wood as assistant herbs activate qi and relieve stasis, expel cold and resolve the turbid-evil, regulate qi and the blood. Long pepper as adjuvant herbs expels cold to alleviate pain and warms the middle to activate qi. Rhinoceros horn is used for clearing away heart-heat and toxins. Cinnabar tranquilizes the mind. Bighead atractylodes rhizome invigorates the spleen to eliminate dampness and harmonizes the middle to resolve the turbid-evil. Myrobalan fruit has the effect of astringing qi. It combines with various aromatics to prevent excessive effect of pungent and aromatic herbs from causing consumption of the genuine-qi.
In clinical practice, this formula is often used for cerebrovascular accident, hysterical syncope, epilepsy, concussion of brain during the stage of coma, angina pectoris at the time of attack and others manifested as cold-closure syndrome.