Vaccaria Seed Powder

金匱要略

For metal wounds (incised wounds), Wang Bu Liu Xing San governs. (Jin Gui Yao Lue)

Wang Bu Liu Xing 10 parts (gathered on the 8th day of the 8th month); Suo Jue (蒴藋) fine leaves 10 parts (brought on the 7th day of the 7th month); white bark of the east-south root of mulberry 10 parts (gathered on the 3rd day of the 3rd month); Gan Cao 18 parts; Chuan Jiao 3 parts (remove those with eyes and closed ones; sweat-processed); Huang Qin 2 parts; Gan Jiang 2 parts; Bai Yao and Hou Po each 2 parts. The above nine ingredients: the three ingredients from mulberry root bark and above are burned to retain their nature (charred but not reduced to ash), without letting the ash be over-burnt; each is pounded separately and sifted, then combined and prepared as a powder, taken in a dose of one square-inch spoon. For small sores, apply as a powder; for large sores, simply take it orally; it may also be taken after childbirth. If there is wind-cold, do not take the mulberry east root. The three substances are all dried in the shade for a hundred days. (Shang Han Za Bing Lun)

The above nine ingredients: the three ingredients from mulberry root bark and above are burned to retain their nature, without letting the ash be over-burnt; each is pounded separately and sifted, then combined and prepared as a powder, taken in a dose of one square-inch spoon (2 g). For small sores, apply as a powder; for large sores, simply take it orally; it may also be taken after childbirth. If there is wind-cold, do not take the mulberry east root. The first three substances are all dried in the shade for a hundred days.

散劑

Discharges pus and blood, warms the flesh and generates new tissue.

Metal wounds, abscesses and carbuncles, 'back abscess' (fa bei), and all sores and swellings.