Ding Xian Wan (Fir-setting Pill)

Chinese Name: Ding Xian Wan
English Name: Fir-setting Pill

Ingredients: Tian Ma (Rhizoma Gastrodiae)30g Chuan Bei Mu (Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae) 30g Jiang Ban Xia (Rhizoma Pinelliae prepared with ginger juice) 30g Fu Ling (Poria)30g Fu Shen (Slerotium Poriae Circum Radicem Pini) 30g Dan Nan Xing (Arisaema cum Bile) 15g Shi Chang Pu (Rhizoma Acori Tatarinowii) 15g Quan Xie (Scorpio)15g Jiang Can (Bombyx Batryticatus)15g Hu Po (Succinum)15g Deng Xing Can(Medulla Junci)15g ChenPi (Pericarpirm Citri Reticulatae)4.5g Yuan Zhi (Radix Polagalae)4.5g Dan Shen (Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae)60g Mai Men Dong (Radix Ophiopogonis)60g Zhu Sha (Cinnabaris)(refined with water)9g.


Administration: Grind the above ingredients into fine powder; take a small bowl of Zhu Li(succus bambusae), a cup of ginger juice and 120g of Gan Cao (Radux Gktcyrrguzae), then make them into ointment; mix up the powder and the ointment and make them into pills coated with Zhu Sha (Cinnabaris). Take orally 6g each time and twice daily with warm boiled water.

Actions: Flushe phlegm and extinguishes wind, opens the orifices and arouses the spirit.

Indications:Epilepsy due to wind phlegm brewing heat with manifestations of sudden attack of dizzy collapse, unclear spirit-mind, deviated eyes and mouth , even convulsion, drooing foanming at the mouth and yelling, white greasy and slightly yellow tongue coating, wiry slippery pulse, also indicated for mania and withdrawal due to wind phlegm brewing heat.