通关散

Name

Powder for Restoring Consciousness

Source

The book Dan Xi Xin Fa Fu Yu

Ingredients

• Zhu Ya Zao (Fructus Gleditsiae Abnormalis),
• Xi Xin (Herba Asari).

The 2 ingredients are in the same amount.

Explanation

Zhu Ya Zao: Being pungent in flavor and warm in nature, removing phlegm for resuscitation.

Xi Xin: Being pungent in flavor and warm in nature, inducing resuscitation through dispersing.

Effect

Restoring consciousness and inducing resuscitation.

Indications

Excess syndrome of stroke due to convulsive seizure resulting from attack by pestilent factors or due to convulsion caused by phlegm retention, marked by trismus, obstruction of breath, coma, lock-jaw, and profuse sputum and saliva; including such diseases with the above symptoms as epilepsy, cerebrovascular accident and craniocerebral trauma.

Administration

The 2 ingredients are ground into fine powder and mixed evenly. Small amount of it is blown into the nose to induce sneezing.

This prescription is used externally for first aid. After the patient comes to, his disease should be differentiated and treated with other prescriptions.