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formulaPurple and Gold Ointment Zi Jin Gao
sourceThe Complete Compendium of Ulcer Medicine, Gu Shicheng, 1760
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bubble_chart Composition

120 gm of rosin (boil over fire, then pull and stretch it in water a hundred times, and grind into powder. If used for treating pox toxins, soak the rosin in water with soybeans, boil until dissolved in a pot, let it cool, then pull and stretch as above, and grind into fine powder). 60 gm of castor seeds (grind finely, place on a fine sieve, scrape back and forth with pangolin scales, sieve, and discard the coarse parts). 15 gm of calomel.

bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage

After preparing the above ingredients, remove the membrane with lard, mix the medicine, place it on a green stone, pound it thousands of times with an iron hammer, and store it in a porcelain bottle.

bubble_chart Indications

All innominate swelling and pain, malignant sores; and wind-dampness fire flow (erysipelas of the shank), as well as smallpox toxins in children.

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