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formulaBigin Pill Bi Jin Wan
source"Yang's Family Prescriptions" Volume 17
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bubble_chart Composition

Arisaema (prepared), Scorpion (detoxified, slightly stir-fried), White Flower Snake (soaked in wine overnight, peeled, boned, meat taken, baked dry), Aconite (burned to ash, preserving properties), Musk (ground), each 15 gm; Centipede 1 piece (dipped in wine, roasted hot); Frankincense (separately ground), Cinnabar (separately ground), each 7.5 gm.

bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage

Grind the above ingredients into fine powder, soak in wine, and make pills with steamed bread, as big as a phoenix tree seed, slightly flattened. Take one pill each time, soaked in mint soup, and let it dissolve for a short while before taking; for yin-type epilepsy, dissolve in ginger soup. For a one-year-old child, take two pills. No specific time is required.

bubble_chart Indications

Infantile convulsion, with clenched hands and feet, upward gaze, stiff neck, locked jaw, frothing at the mouth, vomiting, diarrhea, lethargy, and eventually leading to spleen wind.

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