Brighten Hearing and Eyesight—Alum Wine
Alum Wine
[Drug Composition] Alum (calcined), Gypsum, Lodestone, Changshan, Zanthoxylum (remove seeds and closed pods, sweat-treated), Polygala (peel removed), Wolf Poison, Pinellia (washed), Mirabilite, Calcined Talc, Scrophularia, Ephedra (without nodes), Spina Gleditsiae, Platycodon, Gentiana, Schisandra, Lonicera, Pyrrosia (hair removed), Coptis, Houttuynia, Rehmannia (dried), Conchiolin, Dodder Seed, Licorice (roasted), 1 taels; White Quartz — one and a half taels; Apricot Kernel (skin and tip removed, roasted), 12 pieces
[Function & Indications] Moisturize skin and flesh, enhance hearing and vision, clear away pathogenic factors.
[Dosage & Administration] Take wine equivalent to one chicken egg size; when the wine effect wears off, take again. All conditions treated will improve. Take twice daily; effective within ten days, fully cured in thirty days.
[Preparation Method] Mix the twenty-five herbs, crush and sieve, place in a cloth bag. Use three catties of yeast and three dou of rice to make wine. After fermentation, seal with the herbs. In winter, age for ten days; spring, seven days; summer, three days; autumn, five days. Remove herbs and filter out residue.
[Source] Tang Dynasty, "Qianjin Yifang"