Joined Palms Powder

Three drugs, two of them metallic, and a route of application that tells you what the disease was. Sulphur at 5 don is the bulk of it, areca is the worm drug, calomel the mercury salt. The dose is a don worked up with oil in the palm and rubbed onto the genitals at night — and the hands are deliberately left unwashed and rubbed dry, so that the drug stays on the fingers as well. That is a scabies treatment. 遍身生瘡 that a hundred drugs have not touched, worst at night, treated by rubbing sulphur into the genital skin and the hands: the two sites scabies spares least are the genitals and the finger webs, and sulphur ointment is still a recognised scabicide, used at 5 to 10 per cent in petrolatum where permethrin is unavailable. Of everything in this section, this is the formula most likely to have worked. **Contains calomel, a mercury salt, rubbed into genital skin and left on the hands overnight. Mercury is absorbed through skin and far more readily through the thin skin of the genitals, and the chapter elsewhere records mercury poisoning as a complication of its own treatments. This must not be prepared.** The sulphur is the active part and needs no mercury beside it. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.