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Purple Cloud Healing Salve
Have you ever wanted to make your own therapeutic ointments from Chinese herbs? Dr. Skye Sturgeon will teach you how to make Zi Yun Gao, a famous, over 350-year-old Chinese herb formula that’s applicable for a variety of skin conditions.
Click here to watch the video on how to make Purple Cloud Healing Salve.
Ointment Recipe
- Crushed or chopped herbs
- 8 oz - Sesame (or almond or wheat germ)oil
- 2 oz or 4 tbs - Beeswax
Optional
- 1 tsp - Vitamin E
- 1 oz - Lanolin
- 2 oz - Cocoa (or Shea) butter
Herbs
- 12 grams - Zi cao (ruan)/Arnebia euchroma root or use
- Hong tiao zi cao/Lithospermum eyrthrorhizon root
- 12 grams - Dang gui/Angelica sinesis
- 3 grams - Gan cao/Glycyrrhiza uralensis root
Additions / Modifications
- 18 grams - Sheng di huang / Rehmannia glutinosa root
- 9 grams - Huang Qin / Scutellaria baicalensis root
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