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decoction of licorice in cases of abscess and wasting due to 

 discharging sores. 



Rubbing Bright Pozvder ; ^ ^%% (Mo-kiiang-san). Pre- 

 pare a powder of the wild water chestnut by a process similar 

 to that used for preparing arrowroot powder. Also take equal 

 parts of Coptis teeta, Pterocarpus indicus, Scutellaria mac- 

 rantha, sweet chrysanthemum flowers, and peppermint. First 

 steep in water and evaporate the decoction, and then 

 steep in child's urine and evaporate in the same way and 

 mix the two powders ; also take a pearl and enclose it in a 

 piece of bean curd and boil, after which powder finely. Take 

 one ounce of the water chestnut powder, one-half ounce of the 

 second preparation, and three-tenths ounce of the pearl powder ; 

 mix, powder finely, and put into a porcelain bottle and cork 

 tightly. When about to use, add a little Baroos camphor and 

 drop the powder into the eye. This is considered to be a 

 remarkably efficacious remedy in all forms of opacity of the 

 cornea. 



Salvia Pozvder; j^ -^ "^ (Tan-shen-san). This is simply 

 Salvia plebia washed clean, cut in slices, dried, and powdered. 

 The dose is a fifth of an ounce to be taken in warm wine for 

 all menstrual difficulties, whether early or late, too much or 

 too little, or in pregnancy to quiet irritation in the last weeks, 

 or to correct the discharges after delivery. It is also good for 

 all forms of backache and pains in the bones and joints. 



Seven Candarin Pozvder; ^ ^ ^ (Ch'i-li-san). Use 

 dragon bone (|| »^), borax, dragon's blood, catechu, Cannabis 

 indica, and Forsythia suspensa, of each equal parts ; powder 

 finely. The dose is seven candarins, and is used in the treat- 

 ment of wounds as an anodyne. 



Seven Fairies Powder; ^ \^ ^ (Ch'i-hsien-tan). As- 

 tragalus hoangtchy two ounces ; ginseng, one ounce ; licorice, 

 one-half ounce ; Paris polyphylla, one ounce ; plum flowers, 

 one and a half ounces ; Monochasma savatieri, one ounce ; 

 human skull bone {^ g ^), one piece ; all powdered together. 

 This is a remedy for preventing smallpox and for modifying 

 the eruption. 



Seven Precious Powder; 't ^ ^ (Ch'i-pao-san). Use 

 dragon bone, elephant's .skin, dragon's blood, ginseng, Gynura 



