bubble_chart Preparation and Dosage

Grind into a fine powder. Take 6 grams per dose, mix with 200 ml of hot wine and consume, then apply to the affected area. For cases of locked jaw and arched back, take 9 grams per dose, taken with hot child's urine, and even static blood within will be cured. For those who are unconscious but still have warmth in the chest and abdomen, taking two doses in succession can also preserve life. For treating rabies bites, wash the wound with mouthwash and apply the powder to the injury for effectiveness.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Expelling wind and resolving phlegm, calming convulsions and stopping spasms.

bubble_chart Indications

Tetanus, lockjaw, opisthotonos, and in severe cases, teeth clenching and tongue retraction. Also used to treat rabies from dog bites. For external use in treating injuries, cuts, and bleeding.

bubble_chart Formula Principles

"The Shen's Zunsheng Book" states: "Only injuries from falls or blows, where the wound has not yet healed and is exposed to wind, can lead to true tetanus." The Neijing also points out: "All sudden muscular spasms and rigidity are ascribed to wind." Therefore, tetanus is caused by the invasion of wind evil into the site of injury, belonging to the affliction of external wind. After the toxic wind evil invades the meridians, symptoms such as lockjaw, opisthotonos, and wiry pulse appear. The treatment should focus on dispelling wind and relieving convulsion, guiding the evil out. The formula uses giant typhonium rhizome and Arisaema to dispel wind and phlegm, and to relieve convulsions as the main ingredients; Notopterygium, Saposhnikovia Root, Dahurian Angelica, and Gastrodia Tuber assist the main ingredients in dispersing the apoplexy evil from the meridians and guiding it out, serving as auxiliary medicinals; warm wine is used to enhance the efficacy of the medicinals, acting as a guiding medicinal. This treatment has a certain effect on tetanus syndrome. This formula originally comes from Benshi Fang, which only included Saposhnikovia Root and Arisaema. Later, through clinical practice, Notopterygium, Dahurian Angelica, Gastrodia Tuber, and giant typhonium rhizome were added to search for wind, forming this formula, which further enhances its efficacy.

bubble_chart Modern Application

Modern medicine believes that this formula has anticonvulsant, sedative, anti-inflammatory, analgesic effects, reduces vascular resistance, increases blood flow, and improves blood circulation. It is mainly used for: tetanus, rabies bites, traumatic headache, vascular neurogenic headache, scapulohumeral periarthritis, mandibular arthritis, presenting with locked jaw, tightly pursed lips, body rigidity, opisthotonos, or headache, shoulder pain, arm pain, sour taste in mouth, and tight, wiry pulse.