治妊娠临产难生,或胎衣不下,产后血晕,不省人事,状如中风,血崩恶露不止,
刺痛,血滞浮肿,血入心经,语言颠倒,如见鬼神,血风相搏,身热头痛,或类疟状,
产后,一切危急野狼狈垂死,以此药灌三四丸,无不救活者。
五灵脂 当归(去芦,酒浸) 生地黄 川芎 高良姜(锉。各一两)
上细锉,入沙锅内,纸筋盐泥固济,炭火 通红,候火灭,冷取出,细研,入后药∶百
草霜(五两) 乳香 生硫黄 琥珀 花蕊石(各一钱)
上五味,并研细末,同前药和匀,米醋煮面糊为丸,如弹子大,要服用火 药通红,投
入生
治产后发热,自汗,肢体痛,名曰蓐劳。
当归(去芦,酒浸) 人参(各七钱) 黄 (去芦,一两) 生姜(半两)
上 咀,用羊肉一斤,煮清汁五大盏,去肉入前药煎四盏,去滓,作六、七服,早晚三、
四
治产后蓐劳发热。
猪腰子(一只)
上去白膜,切作柳叶片,少盐酒拌之,先用粳米一合,入葱椒煮粥,盐醋调和,将腰子
铺碗底,用热粥盖之,如作 生粥状吃之,每日空心作粥极妙。
治大产小产,对证加添服饵。(方见眩晕门眩晕论治)
腹中刺痛,加白芍药;口干烦渴,加乌梅、麦门冬;发寒热,加干姜、白芍药;水停心
下,
仁;
半夏
Treats difficult labor during pregnancy, retained placenta after delivery, postpartum blood syncope leading to unconsciousness with symptoms resembling wind-stroke; metrorrhagia and continuous lochia; stabbing pain; edema caused by blood stasis; blood entering the Heart meridian causing incoherent speech as if seeing ghosts; blood-wind intermingling causing fever, headache, or symptoms resembling malaria. For all critical, desperate, and near-death conditions occurring postpartum, administering three or four pills of this medicine will invariably save the patient.
Wulingzhi (Trogopterus Dung), Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix) (remove the radix head, soak in wine), Shengdihuang (Rehmanniae Radix Recens), Chuanxiong (Ligustici Chuanxiong Rhizoma), Gaoliangjiang (Alpiniae Officinarum Rhizoma) (chopped, each 1 liang).
Finely chop the above ingredients, place them in a clay pot, seal tightly with paper paste and salt mud, roast over charcoal fire until red-hot, allow to cool after the fire extinguishes, grind finely, and add the following herbs: Baicaoshuang (Soot from burning various herbs) (5 liang), Ruxiang (Olibanum), Sheng Liuhuang (Native Sulfur), Hupo (Amber), Huarui Shi (Pyrite) (each 1 qian).
Grind these five herbs into fine powder, mix evenly with the previously prepared medicine, use rice vinegar and wheat flour paste as a binder to form pills the size of a bullet. To take, heat the [processed] medicine until red-hot, immerse in raw... [Text cuts off here].
Treats postpartum fever, spontaneous sweating, and limb pain, known as "Rulao" (Postpartum Exhaustion Disease).
Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix) (remove the radix head, soak in wine), Renshen (Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma) (each 7 qian), Huangqi (Astragali Membranacei Radix) (remove the radix head, 1 liang), Shengjiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens) (0.5 liang).
Chop the herbs, boil 1 jin of mutton to extract 5 large bowls of clear broth, remove the meat, add the aforementioned herbs, and decoct until reduced to 4 bowls. Strain the dregs, divide into six or seven doses, taken morning and evening.
Treats postpartum Rulao fever.
Pig kidney (one).
Remove the white fascia, slice into willow-leaf shapes, and mix with a little salt and wine. First, cook a porridge using one he of japonica rice, scallions, and Sichuan pepper, season with salt and vinegar. Place the prepared kidney slices at the bottom of the bowl, cover with hot porridge, and consume it like a thick, well-cooked porridge. It is excellent to eat this porridge on an empty stomach daily.
Treats full-term delivery or miscarriage, adding ingredients according to the syndrome pattern. (See formula in the Vertigo section under Vertigo Treatment).
For stabbing pain in the abdomen, add Baishao Yao (Paeoniae Radix Alba); for dry mouth and irritability/thirst, add Wumei (Mume Fructus) and Maimendong (Ophiopogonis Radix); for chills and fever, add Ganjiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma) and Baishao Yao (Paeoniae Radix Alba); for fluid retention below the heart, [text missing] Ren; Banxia (Pinelliae Rhizoma).