Snake Horn Powder
【Source】"Shengji Zonglu" Volume 126.
【Alternative Names】White Flower Snake Powder (from "San Yin Ji Yi Bing Zheng Fang Lun" Volume 15).
【Composition】White Flower Snake Meat (soaked in wine, dried) 120 grams, Rhinoceros Horn (shredded) 30 grams, Green Tangerine Peel (white part removed, dried) 15 grams, Ipomoea Seed 45 grams (30 grams roasted, 15 grams used raw)
【Usage】Mix the four ingredients into a powder. Take 6 grams per dose, add 0.15 grams of finely ground mercury sulfide separately, mix with rice porridge and take. Take before dawn, expect to expel harmful substances by noon. If harmful substances are not fully expelled, repeat after half a month. Non-ulcerated cases will be absorbed internally; ulcerated cases will dry up naturally.
【Indications】Scrofula.
【Contraindications】Mercury sulfide in this formula is toxic; use with caution when taken internally. |
