典藏书目

Treatment for Fish Bone Impaction: Mash wild ramie root and form pills the size of a longan. For fish bone impaction, dissolve and swallow with fish soup; for chicken bone impaction, also dissolve and swallow with fish soup.

Another prescription: Use 5 qian of Clematis root (Weilingxian), 3 qian of Amomum fruit (Suosha), and 2 qian of Licorice root (Gancao). Add one zhong of water, decoct until reduced to four parts. Swish in the mouth, exhale while swallowing into the throat, and it will heal immediately.

Another prescription: Eat fresh olive to facilitate the passage of the bone. If unavailable, crush the olive pit into powder and take with flowing water.

Another prescription: Scratch the outside of the throat with a badger claw to dislodge the bone.

Another prescription: Soak quince seeds in water and swallow the liquid; the bone will naturally dissolve.

Another prescription: Chew golden phoenix flower seeds and hold them in the mouth to swallow saliva. If seeds are unavailable, the root can be used.

Another prescription: Take an unspecified amount of Clematis root, soak in good rice vinegar for one or two days, dry and grind into powder. Make pills with vinegar paste, sized like sophora seeds. Take one or two pills per dose, swallowed with half tea and half water. To induce vomiting, mix half a spoonful of sugar and verdigris powder, add one or two drops of oil, and take with tea water to vomit the object. If the medicine acts slowly, have the patient place hands on the floor, prepare a basin of clear water, and use a goose feather tube to stimulate the throat to vomit.

Another prescription for Fish Bone Impaction: Mix sugar, white charcoal skin powder, Perilla leaf, and Talcum powder into pills. Hold in the mouth and swallow with saliva; the bone will descend naturally.

Another prescription: Grind equal parts of Amomum fruit and Licorice root into powder. Wrap a small amount in cotton, hold in the mouth, and slowly swallow saliva. After a while, it will be expelled with phlegm.

Another prescription for Animal Bone Impaction: Drink water made by grinding ivory comb. Alternatively, decoct dust from insects found on mulberry trees in vinegar for gargling and swallowing.

Another prescription: Blow Sophora flower powder into the nose to induce rhinorrhea.

Treatment for Accidental Ingestion of Needles: Red-hot charcoal should be quickly crushed to ash, mixed with rice gruel, and taken in three liang cups. Alternatively, drink concentrated decoction of prepared mugwort to resolve the issue.

Another prescription: For ingested needles, hooks, or fish bones, consume plenty of fatty foods to naturally wrap and expel them. For rice awns stuck in the throat, collect saliva from a goose's mouth and swallow it.

Treatment for Stuck Bamboo or Wood Splinters: Red-hot old saw blade should be thrown into wine and drunk hot.

Treatment for Ingested Gold, Silver, or Copper Coins: Grind one apricot-sized piece of calcined alum and one soap-berry-sized piece of sulfur into powder, and take with wine.

Another prescription: Make a soup with fatty pork and malva vegetables. After several meals, copper and iron will pass naturally.

Another prescription for Ingested Copper Coins: Grind mulberry wood ash finely, take 2 qian mixed with rice drink. Or take 3 qian of mung bean starch mixed with cold water. Or sip water chestnut juice. Or drink strong mugwort decoction. Or consume lots of maltose syrup for immediate effect.

Treatment for Broken Needle Embedded in Flesh: Mash Trichosanthes root and apply externally. Change three times a day; the needle will emerge spontaneously.

Another prescription: Spread axle grease (che zhi) on paper, size of a coin. Apply and change every two days. After three to five applications, the needle will come out.

Treatment for Bamboo/Wood Splinter in Flesh: Chew Achyranthes root and apply as a poultice; the splinter will exit.

Another prescription: Apply ivory shavings or white plum pulp; effective immediately.

Another prescription: Apply sheep manure powder mixed with water to the splinter. When pain and itching occur, scratch it, and the splinter will exit. Alternatively, chew chestnut and apply; also excellent.

Treatment for Swollen Fingertips: Crush dark plum, remove flesh and pit, grind the kernel. Mix with rice vinegar and apply to the ulcerated area; it will heal itself.

Treatment for Erosion between Toes: Burn goose webbing skin until carbonized, grind into powder, and sprinkle on the affected area.

Treatment for Itching and Ulceration between Fingers with Bleeding: Apply ash from bamboo strips used to bind old dung buckets.

Treatment for Foot Sweating: Wash feet with decoction of Alum and Kudzu root. Effective.

Treatment for Foot Trauma from Long Walking: Mix ash from weeds with pot rust and rice paste, grind into ointment, apply, and seal with paper. For blisters, pierce with an oiled thread, cut both ends, and apply pot rust and rice paste.

Treatment for Swelling and Pain in Sole from Long Walking: Apply earthworm soil to the swollen area and elevate the foot; heals in one night.

Treatment for Lacerations from Caning: Burn millet to ash, mix with oil, and apply to relieve pain and prevent scarring. Millet should not be fed to children as it slows movement and stiffens tendons/bones, causing drowsiness; nor should it be eaten with beef, as it causes tapeworms.

Another prescription: After caning, drink urine from a young boy mixed with wine to prevent blood attacking the heart. Place hot tofu on the bruised area; the heat will turn the tofu purple. Replace with fresh hot tofu until the purple color dissipates and turns pale red.

Another prescription: Remove the core of Chinese gall, soak in rice vinegar for one day, stir-fry over low heat until yellow, and grind into powder. Sprinkle dryly. For unbroken swelling/pain, mix with vinegar and apply.

Another prescription: Mix 2 fen of Realgar and 1 fen of Hematite, grind finely, and apply with water. Excellent.

Another prescription: Mix 1 liang of Calamine, 1 qian of raw Red Halloysite, and 1 fen of Mercury. Pounded with sesame oil into an ointment. Spread on umbrella paper and bind tightly. For depressed flesh, fill with this ointment before applying; immediate effect.

Another prescription for Swelling/Pain: Mix 3 qian each of Rhubarb, Scutellaria root, Phellodendron bark, and Baikal skullcap root. Mix 1 qian each of Frankincense and Myrrh, separately ground. Add a little borneol. Mix with cold water, spread on crimson silk, and apply.

Another prescription for Hot Toxic Pain in Ulcers: Mix 1 liang of Lead tetroxide, 0.5 liang of Litharge, 1.5 qian of Calomel, 0.5 qian of Camphor, and 1 zi of Borneol. Grind into powder. Sprinkle on the wound, cover with green cloth leaving a hole in the center.

Another prescription: Burn silkworm cocoons until carbonized, grind into powder. Take 3 qian per dose with wine. Very effective.

Treatment for Scalds and Burns: Grind animal heads from ancient temples into powder, mix with small amount of oil, and apply. Effective.

Another prescription: Apply tung oil or grind ochre for application.

Another prescription: Mix vermilion with water and apply.

Another prescription: Soak yellow hibiscus flowers in sesame oil and apply.

Another prescription: Burn pig bristles to ash, rub with fragrant oil on the affected area.

Another prescription: Use dried white snail shells aged for years, calcined and ground into powder. If the wound is broken, sprinkle dryly; if unbroken, mix with pure oil and apply.

Another prescription: Boil an egg, remove white, keep yolk. Render oil from yolk in a pan, cool, and apply.

Another prescription: Mix Gardenia fruit powder with egg white, apply gently with a goose feather.

Another prescription: Burn Platycladus orientalis leaves until carbonized, grind into powder, mix with egg white and apply.

Another prescription: Apply mud from vinegar jars, or mash fresh Platycladus leaves and apply. Or use dried mulberry leaf powder (mix with honey if dry, sprinkle dry if wet). Or sprinkle salt and press with hand. Or apply soy milk.

Another prescription for Heat-induced Spots with Exudate: Grind Phellodendron bark and mint leaves into powder and sprinkle.

Treatment for Frostbite: Decoct eggplant roots strongly, boil, and wash. Apply bird brain marrow.

Another prescription: Bake goose webbing skin until dry, burn to carbonized ash, grind into powder. Sprinkle when warm.

Another prescription for Cracked Hands/Feet: Grind Bletilla striata into powder, mix and apply to cracks.

Another prescription: Grind Chinese gall into powder, mix with ox marrow, and fill into cracks. Immediate relief.

Another prescription: Take a handful of hair and one bowl of tung oil. Boil in a clay vessel until hair dissolves. Remove from fire, spread, store in clay vessel avoiding dust. Before use, wash cracked areas with boiling water to soften, dry, and apply. Another version adds calamine.

Treatment for Winter Hand/Foot Cracking: Heat 0.5 liang of clear oil, add a piece of yellow beeswax until melted. Add a little calamine and Chinese gall powder, cook until thick and purple. Wash with hot water first, dry over fire, then apply medicine, and cover with thin paper.

Another prescription: Grind Chinese gall into powder, mix with ox nose strap powder, and fill into cracks. Heals spontaneously.

Another prescription for Chronic Hand/Foot Cracking: Mix ginger juice, red fermented rice salt, and lard from the twelfth lunar month. Rub hot into cracks. Initially painful, but softens shortly after, closing the crack. Reapplication ensures safety.

Another prescription: Melt 2 liang of asphalt and 1 liang of yellow beeswax together, store in a clay jar. Wash with hot water, soften skin, dry, melt medicine over low heat, and apply.

Treatment for Rhinophyma: Rub with white salt regularly.

Treatment for Nasal Ulcers: Grind almonds into milk-like paste and apply, or apply earwax from a black cow.

Treatment for Prickly Heat Itching/Pain: Crush willow and artemisia leaves in clean water, mix with clam powder to apply. Snow water is especially good.

Treatment for Poison Ivy Dermatitis: Apply mud from iron troughs or crab roe. Cures the condition.

Treatment for Scar Removal: Boak mulberry wood ash juice into a paste. Pierce the scar with a grass stem, rinse with fresh water. Avoid oily foods.

Treatment for Dry Rotting Ulcers: Burn black oil umbrella paper to ash, leave on ground overnight to remove fire qi, apply to ulcer. Forms a scab, effective.