治破伤风,身如角弓反张,及筋脉拘急,口噤。
守宫(七枚,炙干去足,即蝎虎) 腻粉(半钱) 天南星(一两,酒浸三日,曝干)
上捣研为细末,以薄面糊为丸,如绿豆大,每服斡开口,以酒灌下七丸,有倾汗出得解
,更与一服,再汗即瘥。一方加白附子一两,炼蜜为丸。守宫一名辟宫子。
用蛤蟆二两半,切烂为泥,入花椒一两,同酒炒熟,再入酒二盏半温热,去滓服之,如
重车行五里地,通身汗出神效。
治破伤风,身肿牙关不开。
用白僵蚕直者,不拘多少,生研为末,每用生姜自然汁调以鸡翎,于疮口扫之,勿令干
,斯须肿塌皮皱为效,仍用生姜汁调半钱匕服。一方治瘾疹及大肠风秘,以酒调服之。一
治风痰,生姜汁一茶脚湿水调灌之。
治破伤风,初得在表。
羌活 防风 川芎 本 当归 芍药 甘草(炙,各二钱) 地榆 细辛(各一钱)
上分作二帖,每帖水二盏,煎至八分,热服。若大便闭,加大黄,缓缓令过,加黄芩。
Treats tetanus, where the body is stiff like opisthotonos (a condition characterized by severe muscle spasms causing the back to arch), along with tendon and vessel contraction and tightness, and trismus (lockjaw).
Gekko gecko (seven pieces, roasted dry and feet removed, also known as Scincus or Gecko), Nifen (half qian), Rhizoma Acoris Tatarinowii (one liang, soaked in wine for three days, then dried).
The above ingredients are crushed and ground into a fine powder. Form pills using thin wheat starch paste, sized like mung beans. For each dose, pry open the mouth and administer seven pills with wine. After a short while, sweating will occur and relief will be achieved. Administer another dose; upon subsequent sweating, the disease will subside. Another prescription adds Rhizoma Typhonii (one liang) and forms pills using refined honey. Gekko gecko is also called Bigongzi.
Use half a tael of Bufo bufo gargarizans (toad), minced into a paste. Add one tael of Zanthoxylum bungeanum (Sichuan pepper) and stir-fry with wine until cooked. Then add two and a half cups of wine, warm it, strain the dregs, and drink. The effect is miraculous, similar to traveling five li by carriage, resulting in profuse whole-body sweating.
Grind Centipede into a fine powder, apply to the teeth to induce salivation and expectoration; recovery is immediate.
Treats tetanus with body swelling and inability to open the jaw.
Use straight Bai Jiang Can (Bombyx Batryticatus / Silkworm), quantity not restricted, raw-ground into powder. Each time, mix with fresh juice of Zingiber officinale (Ginger) and apply to the wound site using a chicken feather. Do not let it dry. When swelling subsides and skin wrinkles appear, it indicates efficacy. Continue to administer half a qian-bi (measure for powder) mixed with ginger juice orally. Another prescription treats urticaria and intestinal wind constipation, taken with wine. Another method treats wind-phlegm, administered with water mixed to the consistency of a tea foot using ginger juice.
Treats tetanus in its initial stage when pathogenic factors are at the exterior.
Radix Notopterygii (Qianghuo), Radix Saposhnikoviae (Fangfeng), Rhizoma Chuanxiong (Chuanxiong), Rhizoma Ligustici (Gaoben), Radix Angelicae Sinensis (Danggui), Radix Paeoniae Alba (Shaoyao), Radix Glycyrrhizae Preparata (Zhi Gancao, two qian each), Cortex Sanguisorbae (Diyu), Radix Asari (Xixin, one qian each).
Divide the above ingredients into two doses. For each dose, add two cups of water, decoct until reduced to eight-tenths, and take hot. If there is fecal impaction, add Radix et Rhizoma Rhei (Dahuang) to gently promote bowel movement, and add Radix Scutellariae (Huangqin).
If spontaneous sweating occurs after taking the previous medicines.
Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae (Baizhu, four qian), Radix Saposhnikoviae (Fangfeng, eight qian), Radix Astragali Membranacei (Huangqi, four qian).
Divide into two doses. For each dose, add two cups of water, decoct until reduced to eight-tenths, and take after meals.
Centipede (one pair), Swim Bladder of Fish (Yubiao, five fen, fried), Zuo Pan Long (five fen, fried until smoke ceases).
Grind into a fine powder and take with Fangfeng Decoction.