The effects of red powder are extracting toxins, removing pus, removing decay, and regenerating muscle, and it is used for carbuncles (a kind of poisonous sores, acute suppurative diseases occurring on the surface of the body, the limbs, and the internal organs) boils (surgical afflictions occurring on the face and the hands and feet) and other conditions. Note that the drug is toxic.
Red powder is red mercuric oxide (HgO), pungent and hot in nature; it is highly toxic. Attributed to the lung and spleen meridians. It has the efficacy of pulling out poison, removing pus, removing decay, and regenerating muscle. It is used for carbuncle and furuncle, chancre of syphilis (refers to the early syphilitic sores occurring in the pubic area of both men and women), and all kinds of malignant sores, with dark purple and black flesh, rotting flesh not going, pus drenching, and long time not closing the mouth and so on.
Note that this product is poisonous and can only be used externally, not internally; it should not be used externally for a long period of time; it is forbidden for pregnant women.
Chinese medicines or proprietary Chinese medicines need to be used under the guidance of a Chinese doctor to identify the evidence, individuals should not be used blindly, so as not to cause adverse consequences.