The Healing Power of Cinnabar Wine

The Benefits of Drinking Cinnabar Wine

Cinnabar is a type of mineral containing sulfide compounds. When consumed as a traditional Chinese medicine, it has sedative and hypnotic effects, as well as detoxification and preservation properties. In this article, I will discuss in detail the benefits of drinking cinnabar-infused wine. Let's learn more about it!

The Benefits of Drinking Cinnabar Wine

Cinnabar is also known as red lead, vermilion, or mercury sand in some regions of China. It is bright red in color with a diamond-like luster and belongs to the trigonal crystal system. Cinnabar is a compound of mercury and, when consumed, it has sedative and hypnotic effects, as well as detoxification, preservation, and antibacterial properties.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, cinnabar has a cold nature and sweet taste. It has a certain level of toxicity but is beneficial for the heart. Its main functions include calming the mind, sedating, and detoxifying. In daily life, cinnabar-infused wine can be consumed to quickly restore health in cases of oral ulcers, restlessness, palpitations, insomnia, epilepsy, convulsions, and throat pain.

Cinnabar has a long history of use in China and was primarily used as a raw material for alchemy by Taoist practitioners. It can also be made into medicinal preparations or pigments. It is recorded in traditional Chinese medical texts such as "Compendium of Materia Medica," "Wu Pu's Materia Medica," "Ben Jing Feng Yuan," and "Kai Bao's Materia Medica." The specific benefits of drinking cinnabar-infused wine are as follows:

1. Treating insomnia, epilepsy, palpitations, and restlessness

　　Cinnabar has a calming effect on the mind, making it suitable for patients with mental agitation. In daily life, if you experience symptoms such as irritability, decreased sleep quality, or discomfort caused by excessive internal heat, you can consume cinnabar-infused wine along with other herbs that have a calming and sedative effect, such as coptis and magnetite. For conditions caused by high fever and restlessness, cinnabar can be combined with musk and cow bezoar. For symptoms of phlegm-heat-induced epilepsy, cinnabar can be combined with calomel and pinellia to alleviate phlegm and calm the mind. For insomnia caused by blood deficiency of the heart muscle, cinnabar can be combined with rehmannia, angelica, salvia, and arborvitae seed, which nourish the blood and calm the mind.

　　Although cinnabar has a therapeutic effect on mental agitation, the herbal combinations needed for different causes of mental agitation vary. It is particularly important to exercise caution in cases of excessive internal heat and blood deficiency, to avoid potential health issues.

2. Treating throat pain, oral ulcers, and infected wounds

　　Experts suggest that cinnabar can be used externally for its detoxifying and antiseptic properties. When combined with musk, safflower, mushroom, and realgar, it is mainly used externally to treat infected wounds. When mixed with borneol, alum, or borax and blown into the throat, it has good therapeutic effects on oral ulcers and throat pain.

The Benefits of Drinking Cinnabar Wine

Specific Cinnabar Prescriptions

1. Treating postpartum mania, sepsis, or heart invasion by evil qi

　　Grind about 2-3 grams of cinnabar into powder, mix it with breast milk, and stir it into a paste. Then, prepare a purple-necked ground dragon and roll it in the medicine paste three times. After removing the ground dragon, add it to a small bowl of ash-free wine and divide it into two or three doses for consumption.

2. Treating tendency to madness and erratic mood swings

　　It is recommended to grind cinnabar, turmeric, and alum into powder, and then make pills by mixing them with honey. It is suggested to take ten pills with mint soup when symptoms occur. This prescription is also known as Cinnabar Pills.

3. Treating mental confusion, erratic eating habits, vomiting white foam, and incoherent speech

　　It is recommended to grind about 7 grams of cinnabar into powder, and then prepare about 15 grams of sour jujube kernel and 15 grams of frankincense. After grinding the three herbs into powder and mixing them thoroughly, give the patient 15 grams of the mixture with a small bowl of white wine. Finally, let the patient sleep undisturbed in a quiet room.

4. Treating excessive worries, resulting in mental confusion, ineffective treatment of insomnia, and forgetfulness

　　Prepare 30 grams of cinnabar, 2 pig hearts, and 45 grams of lampwick. Cut the pig hearts open and place the cinnabar and lampwick inside. Sew them together with hemp thread and boil in a pottery pot. After removing the cinnabar, grind it into powder and mix it with 60 grams of prepared true pearl powder. Then, mix the powder with white wine to form a paste and make it into pills. Administer the pills to the patient with incense or ginseng soup.

5. Treating heart deficiency and seminal emission

　　Cinnabar wine can also be used to treat symptoms of heart deficiency and seminal emission. Slice the pig heart and insert cinnabar powder into it. Immerse the prepared pig heart in water and cook it until done. Consume it as food.

6. Treating dim vision and inability to see clearly

　　Grind about 15 grams of cinnabar into powder and prepare a green gallbladder. Put the cinnabar powder into the gallbladder and hang it in the northwest corner of the house to dry slowly. During the day, take out the gallbladder and make small pills the size of soybeans. Take about ten pills after meals with porridge daily.