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Treats stroke with phlegm-turbidity surging upward, sounds produced in the throat and diaphragm, eyes closed and unable to open, deviation of the mouth and eye, and limbs unable to move voluntarily. It is suitable for all kinds of wind diseases.

Realgar (separately ground) Cinnabar Dragon Bone Musk (each 1 qian, separately ground) Zamenia (Zaobaba Snake, soaked in wine, roasted, skin and bones removed) White Stiff Silkworm (used raw, silk and mouth removed) Arisaema Cum Bile (used raw) Typhonii Rhizoma (used raw, each half liang)

Grind the above into powder, refine honey to make pills, size of Sophora japonica seeds. If stroke with phlegm-turbidity surging upward and locked jaw, first take one clove of garlic, mash it and apply to the cheeks outside the jaw joint, dissolve one pill in Doulin Wine (Soybean-leavened Wine), wipe on the gums to open the jaw, then continue by dissolving another pill in Mint Wine and swallowing. For men's wind disease or women's blood qi disease causing locked jaw, only use Doulin Wine to dissolve one pill and wipe on the teeth; for head wind with vertigo, or hidden wind causing blackouts and falling over, chew one or two pills urgently and swallow with Mint Decoction.

Treats deficiency of liver and kidney qi, struck by wind-cold, twitching of sinews and vessels, deviation of the mouth and eye. Regular consumption tonifies the liver origin, circulates Ying and Wei, and nourishes Qi and Blood.

Aconitum Lateralis Radix Praeparata (prepared until ripe, skin and navel removed, 1 liang) Cinnamon Twig Poria Cocos Cornus Officinalis Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis Fructus Eucommiae Cortex (skin removed, stir-fried with ginger juice until fibers break) Dipsaci Radix Lycii Fructus Rehmanniae Radix Praeparata (washed) Morinda Officinalis Radix (heart removed) Cuscutae Semen (soaked in wine until wet, ground) Saposhnikoviae Radix (each half liang) Achyranthis Bidentatae Radix (soaked in wine, 2 liang)

Grind the above into powder, mix with honey to make pills, size of Sophora japonica seeds. Take 30-50 pills each time, swallow with warm wine or salt water before meals.

Treats all wind diseases in men and women, regardless of duration: paralysis from stroke, deviation of the mouth and eye, slurred speech, dragging of limbs, difficulty lifting, convulsions, sensation of insects crawling, aphasia, locked jaw, inability to walk, body numbness and heaviness, pain in all joints, mental fatigue, empty and vexatious feeling in the head, restless sleep at night, excessive salivation, chest and diaphragm discomfort, dry mouth and eyes, fatigue and weakness, tetanus with opisthotonos, locked jaw with sweating like oil, head wind with heavy brain, pain in the supraorbital ridge; sudden stroke with unconsciousness and confusion; also treats vitiligo, generalized urticaria, clear nasal discharge, cicada-like tinnitus in ears; infantile convulsions and upward gazing; women's blood wind with hot palms and soles, nocturnal spontaneous sweating, dizziness leading to falling. All are treated.

Typhonii Rhizoma Myrrh (separately ground) Panthera Tigris Ossis (soaked in wine overnight, roasted dry) Scorpio Aconiti Radix (prepared, skin and tip removed) Ephedrae Herba (not removing nodes) Pyritum (burned to retain nature, soaked in vinegar overnight, each 1 liang) Bungarus Parvus (soaked in wine, half liang) Cinnabar (separately ground, 1 fen) Trogopterori Faeces (1 fen) Momordicae Cochinchinensis Semen (20 pieces, skin removed and separately ground, not sieved) Brain and Musk (each 1 fen, separately ground) Boswelliae Resina (pounded with willow wood mortar, 1 fen)

Grind the above into powder, mix with honey to make pills the size of a bullet. Soak one pill in 1 sheng of pure wine without ash, divide into 20 doses; for wind-cold with nasal congestion, divide into 30 doses, take one dose when fasting and one before bed; five pills can stabilize severe wind disease (leprosy/severe rheumatism).