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To treat heat accumulation in the Heart Meridian (Heart Channel), where fright and heat transform into epilepsy, characterized by paroxysmal intense heat, fullness in the chest and diaphragm with excessive phlegm-saliva, and dry constipation.
Bai Fan (Alumen), Chuan Tian Xiao (Natrii Sulfas), Pen Xiao (Natrii Sulfas), Han Shui Shi (Halloysitum). (The above four herbs are used in equal proportions.)
Place the aforementioned ingredients in a crucible, leave the lid open, and calcine over charcoal fire until smoke ceases. Remove, allow to cool, and grind into a fine powder. Take one qian per dose, mixed with fresh cold water, taken after meals, three times daily. This medicine not only treats epilepsy but can also be taken for ordinary stagnation of the Upper Jiao (Upper Burner), diaphragmatic heat, and excessive phlegm.

To treat madness caused by Wind-Fire in the Heart.
Gou Gan (Canis Liver, one piece), Xiao Shi (Nitrums), Huang Dan (Lithargyrum). (The latter two herbs are each used in 1.5 qian.)
Grind Xiao Shi and Huang Dan evenly. Spread open the dog liver, sprinkle the medicine inside, bind tightly with a strand of hemp, and boil in one sheng of water until cooked. Remove the hemp, chew the liver and medicine thoroughly together, and swallow with the decoction liquid from boiling the liver. Take at any time.

To treat five types of epilepsy.
Zhu Sha (Cinnabaris, 0.5 liang, ground separately), Qing Fen (Calomel).
Take one large fish, apply Qing Fen to its body, wait briefly, then scrape off the fish's mucus. Use Zhu Sha powder to form pills the size of mung beans. Take two pills per dose, washed down with warm hot water (cold water is also acceptable), after meals.

To treat fright-induced epilepsy paroxysms where the patient falls to the ground, foams at the mouth, and loses consciousness.
Xiong Chi Xiao (Strix Bubo, one piece, sealed in a clay pot with yellow mud, calcined over charcoal fire until red-hot, then ground finely).
Divide the above powder into four doses. Add a small amount of She Xiang (Moschus), take with warm wine. If unable to drink alcohol, mix with boiled water instead. For children over ten years old, divide into six doses. Take at any time.

To treat all forms of epilepsy, regardless of duration.
Bi Ma Zi (Ricini Semen, peeled to extract the kernel, 2 liang), Huang Lian (Coptidis Rhizoma, de-stamened and chopped to bean-size, 1 liang).
Place the above ingredients in a silver vessel, add one large bowl of water, and simmer slowly. Refill water as it evaporates. Simmer for three days and two nights. Remove, discard Huang Lian, retain only Bi Ma Zi, and take with Jing Jie Tang (Schizonepeta Decoction).

To treat excess of Wind-Heat blocking and attacking the head and face, causing deviation of the mouth and eyes, abnormal speech, muscle twitching, and a sensation of insects crawling on the face. Also treats delirious speech and coma due to Heat from Cold Damage (Shanghan), rigid tetanus (Gang Jing), and all Wind-Heat conditions.
Tian Nan Xing (Arisaematis Tuber, 4 liang, processed with gallbladder bile of an ox in the twelfth lunar month), Niu Huang (Bovis Calculus, 3 liang, ground separately), Xie Shao (Scorpio, venom removed and stir-fried), Shi Gao (Gypsum Fibrosum, equal amount to Scorpion, ground separately), Da Huang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma).
Grind all ingredients into a fine powder and mix evenly. Form pills using refined honey, making ten pills from every one liang of powder. Take one pill per dose, dissolved in Bo He Tang (Mentha Decoction), after meals and before bedtime.