Amber Bao Long Pill 1
【Source】Huo You Xinxu, Lower Volume.
【Alternate Names】Bao Long Pill (Yingtong Baiwen, Volume 6).
【Composition】True amber, Indian bezoar, sandalwood (finely chopped), ginseng (without head), white poria (without skin), each 45 grams, licorice 90 grams (without nodes), bitter orange peel, bitter orange fruit, each 30 grams, water-flying cinnabar 150 grams, yam (without black skin) 500 grams, pinellia 30 grams (chopped, soaked in cow gallbladder during lunar December, used after one summer), gold foil 100 sheets
【Usage】Grind the above herbs (except cinnabar and gold foil) either by sun-drying or baking (sandalwood not over-fired), mix evenly. Add cinnabar and gold foil (for every 30 grams, mix with 50 milliliters of fresh well water), crush slightly in a mortar. Make pills the size of tangerine seeds. For administration, dissolve in scallion broth or mint tea; for severe phlegm obstruction and cough, use mild ginger water; for children with smallpox showing signs and convulsions, use warm clean water; for palpitations and restlessness, use lotus stem water; for summer dizziness, use ophiopogon root decoction. For infants under 100 days, divide each pill into three doses; for children over two years old, take 1–2 pills per dose.
【Function】Expel wind, resolve phlegm, calm the mind, clear heat.
【Indications】Children suffering from seasonal colds, phlegm cough, shortness of breath, acute and chronic convulsions, irritability, and convulsions before eruption of rashes. |
