Zhenjing Pill, a traditional Chinese medicine, is derived from the book "Wei's Family Collection of Prescriptions" Volume Ten. Zhenjing Pill is used to treat children with excessive heat in the heart and liver, which leads to seizures due to fright, resulting in symptoms such as sticking out the tongue, screaming urgently, and alternating red and pale face, resembling a person about to be caught.
【Name】
Zhenjing Pill
【Composition】
Tianma, Tiananxing (processed), Chanku, Fangfeng (removed from Lu), Zhusha (processed separately), Jiangcan (direct, slightly stir-fried, remove the silk), each 7.5 grams; Quanxie, 14 pieces (remove the toxicity), Xionghuang (processed separately), Baifuzi (processed), Shexiang (processed separately), each 7.5 grams; 20 pieces of gold foil and silver foil each.
【Functions and Indications】
Treats convulsions in children.
【Usage and Dosage】
Take 1-2 pills per dose, with mint soup.
【Introduction of Medicinal Materials in the Prescription】
Xionghuang: Functions to detoxify and kill insects, dry dampness, dispel phlegm, and treat malaria. Used for abscesses, snake and insect bites, abdominal pain due to worm accumulation, convulsions, and malaria.
Xuejie: Promotes blood circulation, alleviates pain, stops bleeding, and promotes wound healing.
Baifuzi: Has the effects of dispelling wind, transforming phlegm, and drying dampness. Used for wind-stroke with phlegm obstruction, facial deviation, hemiplegia, wind-phlegm dizziness, phlegm-stagnation headache; externally used for scabies, wind sores, and genital itching.
Shexiang: Opens the orifices, awakens the mind, promotes blood circulation, resolves masses, relieves pain, and reduces swelling. Used for intense confusion and delirium due to fever, wind-stroke with phlegm obstruction, sudden loss of consciousness due to qi stagnation, unconsciousness due to blood stasis, accumulation of masses, acute abdominal pain, traumatic injuries, numbness and pain, abscesses, ulcers, sore throat, oral ulcers, dental caries, and purulent ears.
