Library

Indications. Breaks down masses and accumulations (abdominal lumps). Attacks blood stasis. Promotes menstruation. Heals fractures.

Chong San (Ground Bug Powder). Tubifex worm (Tubifex tubifex), dried by baking in a pan with paper interposed, 6 qian. Natural copper (Cuprum Metallicum Praeparatum), calcined seven times with vinegar, 2 liang. Pulverized into fine powder. Take 2 qian each time, mixed with warm wine. Treats traumatic injuries from falls and blows. The bone-setting effect is miraculous. For lesions in the upper body, take after meals; for lesions in the lower body, take before meals.

Dahuang Zhechong Wan (Rhubarb and Ground Bug Pill). Twenty Zhechong (Ground Bug) (remove feet). Rhubarb (Radix et Rhizoma Rhei), 2 liang. Pulverized into fine powder, mixed with honey and pounded into dough. Divided into four pills. Each pill is decocted with one sheng of wine. Taken warm. Treats postpartum abdominal pain due to dry blood accumulation and stagnation.

Indications. Reduces swelling. Draws out toxins. Cures all types of ding sores (hard, deep-rooted abscesses), yong sores (carbuncles), faback (back carbuncles), and ru yan (breast cancer-like tumors). (Take one live toad, bind it to the sore. After half a day, the toad will become unconscious. Place it in water to revive it. Replace with another toad. For severe cases, peel off its back skin and apply to the sore, or split its belly and apply the warm flesh directly to the sore. If there is pus, it will penetrate; if no pus, it will dissipate. Continuous use for three or four times leads to cure.) Indicated for unnamed swellings and toxic sores, malignant ulcers, pruritic sores, tinea sores, damp sores, postpartum sores, ear erosion (ulcers resembling moon eclipse on ear or umbilicus), ear sores, mouth sores, and umbilical sores. (All are calcined to carbonization, ground, and applied with oil.) Indicated for five kinds of gan syndrome (pediatric malnutrition syndromes), eight kinds of dysentery, and macules appearing in warm diseases. (Remove internal organs, pound fresh for oral consumption, or squeeze juice for drinking, or calcine to carbonization and take as powder.) Indicated for tetanus wounds and traumatic injuries. (Pound fresh into mud, wrap around the injured part using split bamboo.)

Toads were difficult to catch in old times. Now they are bred in jars. The jar mouth is covered with glass. Hairworms are placed on top; when toads see the worms, they spray venom onto the glass. Scrape it off for use. This method does not harm life and yields more product. Indicated for ding sores with spreading toxin (severe systemic infection from ding sores). (Mix with flour to make pills the size of guava seeds. Place one pill on the tongue at a time to detoxify.) Other effects are the same as those of the whole toad.

Chan Hui San (Toad Ash Powder). One large dried toad, calcined to retain efficacy. Chinese gallnut (Galla Chinensis), 1 qian. Musk (Moschus), a small amount. Pulverized into fine powder. Mixed with honey water and applied topically. Treats gangrenous stomatitis (rapidly progressing severe oral ulceration).

Wugan Baotong Wan (Five Gan Protecting Infant Pill). One large dried toad, calcined to retain efficacy. Gleditsia sinensis pod (Gleditsiae Fructus), dehusked and string removed, calcined to retain efficacy, 1 qian. Arca shell powder (Concha Arcae), processed by levigation, 3 qian. Musk (Moschus), 1 qian. Pulverized into fine powder, made into pills the size of millet grains using paste. Take 30-40 pills on an empty stomach with rice water. Twice daily. Treats children with sallow complexion and emaciation, who crave eating dirt.

Chan Su Wan (Toad Venom Pill). Toad venom (Venenum Bufonis) and Calomelas (Hydrargyri Chloridum Mite), each 1 qian. Aconitum carmichaelii root (Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata) and Anemones raddeanae rhizome (Rhizoma Anemones Raddeanae), Cinnabar (Cinnabaris), each 1.5 qian. Frankincense (Olibanum) and Myrrh (Myrrha), each 2 qian. Musk (Moschus), 0.5 qian. Pulverized into fine powder, made into pills the size of pea seeds using rice paste. Take one pill each time. For severe cases, take two pills. Wrap in scallion white, send down with hot wine. Induce sweating. Treats ding yellow and all malignant sores.

Feilong Dan (Flying Dragon Elixir). Toad venom (Venenum Bufonis, dissolved in wine) and Realgar (Realgar), each 2 qian. Calomelas (Hydrargyri Chloridum Mite), Malachite (Malachitum), Alum (Alumen), Halloysitum Rubrum (Halloysitum Rubrum), Blue Vitriol (Vitriolum Caeruleum), Frankincense (Olibanum), Myrrh (Myrrha), and Musk (Moschus), each 1 qian. Cinnabar (Cinnabaris), 3 qian. Snails (Helix Aspersa/Metaphema), 21 pieces. First, pound snails into a paste. Mix evenly with toad venom. Then add all other powdered medicines and mix to form pills the size of mung beans. Take three pills each time. Chew five inches of scallion white thoroughly, wrap the pill in the scallion pulp. Send down with one teacup of non-intoxicating hot wine. Cover with blankets to induce sweating. Treats early-stage ding swellings and various malignant sores. Also used externally to resolve putrefaction and reduce swelling.

Chan Su Bing (Toad Venom Cake). Toad venom (Venenum Bufonis, dissolved in wine), Frankincense (Olibanum) and Myrrh (Myrrha) (both defatted), Realgar (Realgar), and Croton seed frost (Semen Crotonis Preparatum), each 2 qian. Borneolum Syntheticum (Borneolum Syntheticum), Cinnabar (Cinnabaris), each 1 qian. Calomelas (Hydrargyri Chloridum Mite), 0.5 qian. Musk (Moschus), 0.3 fen. Pulverized into fine powder. Mix with toad venom and wine to form pills the size of mung beans. Each time, mix with saliva for topical application. Cover with a plaster. Treats ding sores, brain carbuncles, breast abscesses, osteomyelitis, gluteal abscesses, and all malignant conditions. Whether painful and swollen, painless, or numb.