🌿 Supplement Deficiency and Expel Pathogens—Tiger Bone Dogwood Wine
Tiger Bone Dogwood Wine—originally named "Tiger Bone Wine"
[Drug Composition] Tiger tibia bone (suet-roasted) three and a half liang, Sichuan angelica (wine-washed, dried), Sichuan aconite (roasted, skin and umbilicus removed), large Sichuan aconite (roasted, skin and tip removed), each one and a half liang, Sichuan rhizoma, Sichuan ligusticum, angelica (without root), red and white peony, white atractylodes, eucommia (coarse skin removed, ginger-coated, stir-fried), coix root, angelica (without root head), cistanche (wine-washed, dried), Sichuan achyranthes (wine-washed, dried), astragalus (without root), golden dogwood (hair burned off), white poria (skin removed), white burdock (roasted, thorns removed), ginseng (without root), tianma, each one liang, Sichuan eucommia one liang
[Function and Indications] Greatly harmonizes qi and blood, promotes circulation of nutritive and defensive qi, supplements deficiency and expels pathogens, strengthens true qi. Treats various wind-arthralgia, hand and foot pain, difficulty walking, weak knees and legs. Long-term use brings light body and healthy movement.
[Dosage and Administration] Take one cup each time, warm and on an empty stomach. Keep the residue, dry in sun or oven, grind into powder, make pills with wine paste, swallow with warm wine.
[Preparation Method] Chop herbs into coarse fragments, place in a raw silk bag, soak in one dou of ash-free wine, seal the bottle mouth. In spring, soak for three days; in summer, two days; in autumn, seven days; in winter, ten days.
[Source] Ming Dynasty, *Comprehensive Prescriptions for Universal Relief*