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 Purple Snow Special Pill (AVOID)


Pin Yin: Zi Xue Dan

Category:   Clear Heat and open Orifices
Additional Categories:   Purge Heat Accumulation

Actions:
   Relieves spasms and convulsions and subdues Interior Wind, opens Orifices, clears Heat Toxins, drains bowels, and calms the Spirit;
  ---used for Pericardium-stage Heat with Liver Wind Moving Internally (spasms and convulsions) with severe constipation (YangMing-stage Organ transforming into Pericardium stage).
   (See Pericardium-stage Heat; Liver Wind Moving Internally; YangMing-stage Organ .)

Medicinals Dosages (Qian)
Gypsum [shi gao] 0.057-0.228 (500)
Calcitum [han shui shi] 0.057-0.228 (500)
Talcum [hua shi] 0.057-0.228 (500)
Rhinoceri, Cornu [xi jiao] 0.0057-0.0228 (50)
Antelopis, Cornu [ling yang jiao] 0.0057-0.0228 (50)
Moschus, Secretio [she xiang] 0.0014-0.0057 (12.5)
Scrophulariae, Rx [xuan shen] 0.02-0.08 (170)
Magnetitum [ci shi] 0.057-0.228 (500)
Cimicifugae, Rz [sheng ma] 0.02-0.08 (170)
Glycyrrhizae, Rx [gan cao] 0.009-0.036 (80)
Aristolochiae seu Cocculi, Rx [guang fang ji] 0.0057-0.0228 (50)
Aquilariae, Lignum [chen xiang] 0.0057-0.0228 (50)
Caryophylli, Fl [ding xiang] 0.0011-0.0044 (10)
Cinnabaris [zhu sha] 0.0034-0.0136 (30)
Mirabilitum (= Magnesia Sulfaricum; Natrum Sulfaricum) [mang xiao] 0.2-0.8 (1700)
Niter [xiaoshi] 0.0036-0.0144 (32)

Cautions:
   Contraindicated during pregnancy.


   Associated Modern Diseases: encephalitis, meningitis, measles, scarlet heat effusion (fever), diphtheria, acute tonsillitis, stomatitis, folliculitis, furuncles, seizures.

   Formulas with similar or subset of ingredients: White Tiger Decoction [Bai Hu Tang]; Six-to-One Powder [Liu YiSan].
   Formulas with related functions: Calm the Palace Pill with Cattle Gallstone [AnGongNiu Huang Wan]; Greatest Treasure Special Pill [Zhi Bao Dan].

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