Magnolia Bud Powder

Two drugs and an onion for a brush. Magnolia flower bud is the nose drug of this materia medica and is still the nose drug; a little musk goes in as the opener; and the powder is carried up the nostril on the white of a scallion dipped in it, which is an applicator rather than an ingredient, though scallion white is itself used elsewhere in this chapter to open things. The observation is good and the detail that makes it good is 不得睡卧 — the child cannot sleep lying down. Smallpox put lesions on the nasal mucosa along with everywhere else, and in the convalescent weeks the healing sores narrowed the nose. In a baby that is not a nuisance but a real problem: infants breathe through the nose by preference and in the early months by necessity, and a blocked nose interferes with feeding as well as with sleep. The section has noticed a specific, age-dependent consequence of the disease and named the symptom that reveals it. **Contains musk, the preputial-gland secretion of the male musk deer and a CITES Appendix I material. The demand this tradition created is a principal reason the musk deer are endangered; it must not be sourced, and no substitute is being recommended. And the method itself is the hazard here: dry powder is being pushed repeatedly up the nose of an infant in order to clear it, which is as likely to obstruct the nose further as to open it, and powder put into the nose of a small child can be inhaled. A baby who cannot breathe through the nose needs the nose cleared with saline and suction and needs to be looked at, not packed with powder. This must not be prepared.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.