🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Epilepsy
Epileptic conditions manifest as mental confusion, incoherent speech, unpredictable mood swings, laughing or crying without reason, appearing intoxicated or dazed, unaware of cleanliness, lacking shame; during seizures, sudden collapse, unconsciousness, limb convulsions, stiff back and chest, upward gaze, foaming at mouth, etc. Effective traditional remedies are as follows.
[Formula One] One pig heart, 10g nine-section calamus. Wash pig heart, split with bamboo knife, sprinkle powdered nine-section calamus inside, add water to boil into soup. Drink soup and eat heart. This formula nourishes heart, enhances intelligence, resolves phlegm, opens orifices, suitable for cancer.
[Formula Two] 120g hazel mushroom, 90g sugar. Boil hazel mushrooms in water, filter juice, add sugar, take orally five times, drink freely. This formula dispels wind, activates meridians, tonifies deficiency, treats sheep epilepsy.
[Formula Three] 15g egg yolk, 15g human milk. Mix egg yolk and milk in cup, consume in one go. This formula nourishes heart, calms spirit, enriches qi and blood, suitable for epilepsy.
[Formula Four] 10g white fish, 15g bamboo茹, 100g yellow wine. Place white fish, bamboo茹, and yellow wine in clay pot, simmer until reduced to 20g, cool slightly, take twice. This formula clears heart, removes phlegm, treats epilepsy.
[Formula Five] 500g black tea, 500g alum, 100g glutinous rice. Soak glutinous rice with a little water, boil until rice blooms, extract juice. Crush black tea and alum into powder, mix with rice juice into pills the size of red beans. During seizure episodes, take 49 pills (children 27 pills), swallow with strong tea. This formula tonifies deficiency, removes phlegm, suitable for epilepsy.
[Formula Six] 12g leech, 9g tabanus, 10g peach kernel, 9g rhubarb, 9g staphylea, 15g earthworm, 9g silkworm, 6g whole scorpion, 2 centipedes, 20g flower stone. Decoct and take once daily, divided into two doses. This formula breaks blood stasis, activates blood circulation, suitable for post-traumatic epilepsy.
[Formula Seven] 9g tianma, 9g fritillary bulb, 9g pinellia, 15g poria, 9g poria cocos, 15g salvia, 12g ophiopogon, 9g tangerine peel, 6g polygala, 9g calamus, 6g processed southern star, 6g whole scorpion, 2g amber powder (taken separately), 1g cinnabar (taken separately), 30g bamboo juice (added separately), 9 drops ginger juice (added separately), 9g licorice. Decoct and take once daily, divided into two doses. This formula removes phlegm, calms wind, suitable for wind-phlegm epilepsy.
[Formula Eight] 100g southern star, 120g silkworm, 100g white appendage, 120g safflower, 60g processed pinellia, 60g whole scorpion, 60g peach kernel, 60g bamboo-leaf resin, 50g tianma, 30g coptis, 50g centipede. Grind all ingredients into fine powder, mix with binder into tablets, each weighing 0.3g. Ages 1–3: 4 tablets per dose; ages 4–7: 6 tablets per dose; ages 8–14: 8 tablets per dose; adults: 10 tablets per dose, three times daily with plain water. This formula calms liver, extinguishes wind, resolves phlegm, stops convulsions, suitable for epilepsy due to excessive liver wind.
[Formula Nine] 10g antelope horn, 12g hook vine, 10g mulberry leaf, 12g chrysanthemum, 9g white peony root, 12g raw rehmannia, 9g licorice, 10g fritillary bulb, 12g bamboo茹, 9g poria cocos. Decoct and take once daily, divided into two doses. This formula calms liver, extinguishes wind, clears heat, stops convulsions, suitable for epilepsy due to excessive liver wind.
[Formula Ten] 24g rhubarb (wine-steamed), 24g huangqin, 30g calcined cinnabar stone, 15g sandalwood. Grind into powder, make into pills with water. Take 3–12g per dose, once or twice daily. This formula clears bowels, removes phlegm, suitable for "phlegm epilepsy."
[Formula Eleven] 360g green cinnabar stone, 60g whole scorpion, 400g earthworm, 240g processed southern star, 240g white alum, 600g bitter apple, 100g tianma, 100g sandalwood, 180g safflower, 120g hook vine, 120g clear pinellia, 120g peach kernel, 120g raw rhubarb, 2500g stone calamus, 10g artificial buffalo horn. Boil stone calamus 2500g five times, filter out residue, combine extracts. Grind remaining herbs into fine powder, mix into this liquid, form granules, press into tablets, each 0.3g. Ages 1–3: 4 tablets per dose; ages 4–7: 6 tablets per dose; ages 8–14: 8 tablets per dose; adults: 10 tablets per dose, twice daily with plain water. This formula resolves phlegm, relieves pain, suitable for epilepsy due to excessive phlegm-fire.
[Formula Twelve] 10g costus root, 9g areca nut, 9g green peel, 10g tangerine peel, 9g curcuma, 6g coptis, 10g phellodendron, 5g rhubarb, 10g stir-fried cyperus, 10g bitter apple. Prepare into water pills, take one pill daily with plain water. This formula eliminates food stagnation, suitable for epilepsy due to food accumulation.
[Formula Thirteen] 10g angelica, 9g ligusticum, 6g red peony root, 9g peach kernel, 10g safflower, 10g raw rehmannia, 12g achyranthes, 10g bupleurum, 9g citrus aurantium, 6g platycodon. Decoct and take once daily, divided into two doses. This formula activates blood, resolves stasis, suitable for epilepsy due to blood stasis.
Epilepsy