🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Onion Root Wine
[Drug Composition] Onion roots, fermented soybean
[Function and Indications] Relieves muscle tension, induces sweating, clears heat, tonifies deficiency, treats headache and fever due to cold injury, and abdominal pain from cold dysentery.
[Dosage and Administration] Boil and drink.
[Preparation Method] Soak onion roots and fermented soybeans in wine.
[Source] Ming Dynasty · "Compendium of Materia Medica"
Cooked Onion and Ginger Salt Wine
[Drug Composition] 30g green onion tops, 30g fresh ginger, 6g salt, one cup of white wine
[Function and Indications] Common cold.
[Dosage and Administration] Apply externally to chest, back, palms, soles, popliteal fossa, and elbow creases. After one application, instruct patient to rest quietly.
[Preparation Method] Crush the three ingredients into paste, mix with wine, stir well, then wrap in gauze.
[Source] "New Chinese Medicine" 1976, (1): 15
Note: In traditional Chinese medicine, treating colds primarily involves dispersion. Green onion tops and fresh ginger disperse wind-cold; adding wine applied externally enhances pathogen elimination via the skin surface.
Rice Wine Brewing
[Drug Composition] One dou glutinous rice, one sheng and a half yeast, half pound chopped fangfeng, three sheng xiang'erzi
[Function and Indications] Treats external wind-cold invasion.
[Dosage and Administration] Appropriate internal dosage.
[Preparation Method] Boil all herbs with eight sheng water, steam to obtain six sheng. Mix glutinous rice and yeast, place in ceramic vessel, let ferment for one week to complete.
[Source] Ming Dynasty · "Puji Fang"
Sea Holly Wine
[Drug Composition] Sea holly (peel off black outer layer, cut into four-inch pieces)
[Function and Indications] Treats typhoid fever, seasonal epidemic, and warm diseases.
[Dosage and Administration] Consume entire dose at once; expect to vomit greenish-yellow fluid. Drinking several liters leads to recovery.
[Preparation Method] Boil five *he* wine with one sheng water until reduced to one sheng, then filter out residue.
[Source] Jin Dynasty · "Handbook of Emergency Formulas"
Skeleton Grass Fermented Wine
[Drug Composition] 250g fermented soybeans, 10g schizonepeta
[Function and Indications] External wind-cold invasion with fever and no perspiration.
[Dosage and Administration] Drink warm as needed.
[Preparation Method] Use 750ml wine, boil together with fermented soybeans and schizonepeta until 5–7 boiling cycles, filter out residue, store for later use.
[Source] "Selected Recipes for Medicinal Wines"
Silk Chrysanthemum Wine
[Drug Composition] 30g mulberry leaf, 30g chrysanthemum flower, 10g mint, 30g forsythia fruit, 35g reed root, 30g apricot kernel, 20g platycodon, 10g licorice
[Function and Indications] Early stage of wind-heat disease affecting the upper energizer: mild fever, slight aversion to cold, cough, nasal congestion, slight thirst.
[Dosage and Administration] Twice daily, morning and evening, 15ml each time.
[Preparation Method] Crush the eight herbs finely, soak in glutinous rice wine in a sealed bottle for five nights before opening.
[Source] "Selected Recipes for Medicinal Wines"
Jade Screen Wine
[Drug Composition] Huangqi, dangshen, danggui, baizhu, fangfeng, guizhi, rice wine, proportion 3:2:1:1:1:20
[Function and Indications] Tonifies qi and strengthens defensive energy, improves immunity, prevents colds.
[Dosage and Administration] Three times daily, 50–100ml each time, shake well before drinking.
[Preparation Method] Add herbs and rice wine to sterilized infusion bottles, seal tightly, heat in a pot to 100°C, cool before use.
[Source] "National Forum on Traditional Chinese Medicine" 2000, 15(3): 33
Note: Studies show that the ancient formula Jade Screen Powder can enhance white blood cell ability to induce interferon against viruses, correlating with reduced cold frequency. Adding danggui, dangshen, and guizhi forms a wine preparation, significantly enhancing efficacy. A hospital treated 82 cases of yang-deficiency type colds with this wine, achieving 75 cures (91.5%), 5 effective cases (6.1%), total effectiveness rate 97.6%.