典藏书目

To treat water-fluids retention that fails to dissipate, lingering in the chest and abdomen, causing shortness of breath, wheezing, dizziness, palpitations (Xin Song), facial and ocular congestion, chest oppression, loss of appetite for porridge, distension and fullness in both hypochondria, difficulty in urination, heaviness in the legs, edema of the shins, generalized yellowish discoloration of the body, and occasional spontaneous sweating.
Cinnamon Twig (Guizhi) and Poria (Fuling) in equal proportions (one formula reduces Cinnamon Twig and doubles Poria).
Grind into a fine powder, boil with thick paste to form pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 30 pills each time, washed down with Tangerine Peel Decoction (Chenpi Tang); boiled water is also acceptable.

Minor Pinellia Decoction (Xiao Banxia Tang)
To treat deficiency-cold of the heart and abdomen, phlegm-qi ascending to the chest and hypochondria causing distension, anorexia, retching, aversion to food, headache, dizziness, arm pain, back cold, epigastric discomfort, irritability, and excessive sleepiness.
Pinellia Rhizome (Banxia) (4 liang), Tangerine Peel Shreds (Chenpi Si) (1 liang).
Mix evenly. Take 1 fen each time with 1 zhan of water and 10 slices of fresh ginger. Boil until reduced to 6 fen, remove the dregs, and take warm at any time.

Major Pinellia Pill (Da Banxia Wan)
To descend phlegm-saliva.
Pinellia Rhizome (Banxia) and Fresh Ginger (Shengjiang), half a jin each, ground together like mud, dried and roasted, then ground into a fine powder.
Use ginger juice to cook paste and mix with the powder to form pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 30 pills after meals, washed down with ginger decoction.

Pinellia and Poria Decoction (Banxia Fuling Tang)
To treat palpitations due to phlegm.
Pinellia Rhizome (Banxia) (2.5 liang), Poria (Fuling) (1 liang).
Cut into pieces. Take 2 qian each time with 2 zhan of water and half a liang of ginger. Boil until reduced to 7 fen, remove the dregs, and take warm at any time.

Divine Response Powder (Shen Ying San)
To treat phlegm-saliva.
Alum (Danfan), half a liang; take one fen on a knife blade, dry it until burnt, keep one fen raw, grind both into powder. Lead Oxide (Qiandan) (1 fen).
Grind into a fine powder. Take half a qian each time, washed down with light Smoked Plum Decoction (Dan Wumei Tang).

Magnolia Bark and Arisaema Pill (Nanpu Tian Nanxing Wan)
To treat spleen deficiency with retained fluids, and additionally to treat malaria.
Magnolia Bark (Nanpu) and Arisaema Rhizome (Tian Nanxing) in equal proportions.
Grind into a fine powder, use ginger juice to cook paste and mix to form pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 30 pills each time, washed down with ginger decoction at any time.

Iron Brush Powder (Tie Shua San)
For miraculous effect in treating phlegm.
Atractylodes Macrocephala Root Bark (Baizhu Pi) (single herb, do not touch iron vessels).
Remove the coarse skin from the above medicine, pound and sieve into powder. Use white flour, not red bran. Take one large qian-bi each time, mixed with rice drink. Do not restrict the time; take on an empty stomach up to three doses to achieve the effect.

Asparagus Pill (Tianmendong Wan)
To treat laborious cough with fever, and thick, sticky sputum.
Asparagus Stem (Tianmendong) (soak in boiling water until soft, remove the heart, cut with a bamboo knife, and dry/roast).
Grind into powder, mix with refined honey to form pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 30-50 pills before bed, washed down with boiled water.

Major Pinellia Decoction (Da Banxia Tang)
To treat a feeling of warmth and nausea in the heart region, aversion to the smell of food, occasional acid regurgitation. This is caused by old cold in the stomach; stomach cold cannot transform water and grain. The stomach belongs to Earth and dislikes dampness/cold. If there is nausea, the pulse at the Guan position is slightly wiry and short. It is appropriate to take this.
Pinellia Rhizome (Banxia) and Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome (Baizhu) (each 5 liang), Ginseng Root (Renshen) (half a liang).
Grind into a coarse powder. Take 5 qian each time with 3 zhan of water. Boil until reduced to 1 zhan, remove the dregs, add a piece of white honey the size of a soap bean, let stand for a moment, and take warm.

Major Agastache Powder (Da Huoxiang San)
To treat deficiency-fullness below the heart, inability to eat, frequent desire to vomit but nothing comes out, and shortness of breath. This is caused by cold pathogen injuring qi after recovery from other diseases; qi does not return to normal. When entering the stomach, the stomach cannot nourish itself; the pulse is weak. It is appropriate to take this.
Agastache Leaf (Huoxiang Ye), Ginseng Root (Renshen), Poria (Fuling), Platycodon Root (Jiegeng), Cinnamon Twig (Guizhi), Costus Root (Muxiang), Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome (Baizhu), Pinellia Rhizome (Banxia) (each half a liang), Loquat Leaf (Pipaye) (10 leaves).
Grind into a coarse powder. Take 5 qian each time with 3 zhan of water. First stir-fry 1 fen of ginger shreds, then decoct with the medicine until reduced to 1 zhan. Remove the dregs and take warm before meals.

Kudzu Decoction (Gange Tang)
To treat slight irritability below the heart, aversion to hot substances, vomiting immediately upon getting hot, and frequent thirst. This is caused by evil heat accumulating in the stomach; when the stomach gets hot, qi becomes turbid. Turbid qi leads to turbid yang. The pulse is deficient and rapid, or fine and fast. It is appropriate to take this.
Kudzu Root (Gange) (3 liang), Licorice Root (Gancao), Pinellia Rhizome (Banxia) (each 3 qian).
Grind into a coarse powder. Take 5 qian each time with 2 zhan of water, 3 slices of fresh ginger, and a date-sized piece of Bamboo Shavings (Zhuru). Boil until reduced to 1 zhan, remove the dregs, and take warm.

If there is oppression and confusion below the heart, incessant vomiting, restlessness at night, fidgeting of hands and feet, and inability to take fluids, this is due to disharmony of cold and heat, interference between evil and righteous qi, failure to separate clear and turbid, and disorder of yin and yang. [Text incomplete]

Minor Agastache [Decoction/Powder] (Xiao Huo...)
Semi-Sulfur Pill (Banliu Wan)
To descend phlegm.
Pinellia Rhizome (Banxia) (3 liang), Sulfur (Liuhuang) (2 liang).
Grind into a fine powder, mix with ginger-flour paste to form pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 30 pills each time, washed down with water at any time.

Blue Gold Powder (Qingjin San)
To descend phlegm.
Sulfur (Liuhuang) and Mercury (Shuiyin) in equal proportions.
Grind the two ingredients together until no mercury particles are visible. Mix with ginger juice, take 1 qian at any time.

Golden Needle Pill (Jinzhen Wan)
To treat sudden vomiting, chest stuffiness, qi failing to descend. This is caused by improper diet over-injuring stomach qi; stomach qi stagnates and fails to move, water and grain are not transformed, qi rebels. The pulse is deep, rapid, short, and slippery. It is appropriate to take this.
Croton Seed (Badou) and Cinnabar (Zhusha) in equal proportions.
Mix with white flour paste to form pills the size of hemp seeds. Immediately pierce a hole through each pill with a needle. Take one pill each time, fix it on a lamp with the needle, burn briefly, and wash down with boiled water.

Blue Gold and Costus Pill (Qingjin Muxiang Wan)
To treat vomiting with gradual emaciation,急促 qi rising. This is due to yin-yang blockage preventing descent, internal lack of yang to warm, and reversal of water-grain fluids. The pulse feels completely absent upon pressing; present in the upper part but absent in the lower part. It is appropriate to take this.
Sulfur (Liuhuang) and Mercury (Shuiyin) (each half a liang, grind together until no mercury particles are visible), Costus Root (Muxiang), Evodia Fruit (Wuzhuyu) (each 1 fen).
Grind uniformly, use ginger juice to cook paste and mix to form pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 10 pills each time, washed down with ginger decoction.

Perilla and Pinellia Decoction (Zisu Banxia Tang)
To treat wheezing, cough, phlegm-saliva, and alternating chills and fever.
Perilla Leaf (Zisu), Pinellia Rhizome (Banxia), Aster Flower Bud (Ziwan Rong), Schisandra Fruit (Wuweizi), Dried Tangerine Peel (Chen Jupi) (each half a liang), Apricot Kernel (Xingren) (1 liang), Mulberry Root Bark (Sangbaipi) (1.5 liang).
Grind into a coarse powder. Take 3 qian each time with 1.5 zhan of water and 7 slices of ginger. Boil until reduced to 1 zhan, remove the dregs, and take hot. Three times daily.

Sweet Descurainia Pill (Tian Tingli Wan)
To regulate qi, broaden the middle, break hardness, eliminate accumulation, promote phlegm-water movement, resolve stagnant qi, eliminate abdominal distension, unblock obstruction, treat lung qi stagnation with wheezing and oppression, gastric retained fluids with pain or retching of saliva-phlegm, shortness of breath, firm fullness in the hypochondria, stabbing pain in the bones, cough with swelling/fullness, stiffness of the back, constipation, and dark scanty urine.
Descurainia Seed (Tingli), Apricot Kernel (Xingren), Pinellia Rhizome (Banxia), Areca Seed (Binglang) (each 2 liang), Medicated Leaven (Shenqu) (1 liang), Black Morning Glory Seed (Heiqianniu) (4.5 liang, half raw half roasted), Soap Pod (Zaojiao) (5 ting).
Grind into a fine powder, then add Tingli and Xingren and grind again uniformly. Use fermented soap pod wine as a paste to mix and form pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 20 or 30 pills each time, washed down with warm ginger decoction.

Head and Face (Headache Included)
Inula Pill (Xuanfuhua Wan)
To treat dizziness with desire to vomit, warmth below the heart, chest discomfort, and a sensation of rotation. This is caused by phlegm-fluids gathering and ascending to the brain, preventing the three Yang meridians from descending. The pulse at the Guan positions of both hands is deep, wiry, and rapid, or fine. This is called phlegm-dizziness. It is appropriate to take Inula Pill.
Cinnamon Twig (Guizhi), Immature Bitter Orange (Zhishi), Ginseng Root (Renshen), Dried Ginger (Ganjiang), Red Peony Root (Chishaoyao), Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome (Baizhu) (each 5 fen), Poria (Fuling), Wild Wolfbane (Yelangdu) (each 1 fen), Aconite Root (Wutou), Alum (Fanshi) (each 2 qian).
Grind into a fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 3 pills washed down with rice drink, increasing to 7 pills. After meals, if dizzy but not spinning, upon attack, lie prostrate and feel groggy for about a meal time before recovering. This is due to disordered Ying and Wei, chaotic Qi and Blood, rebellious Yang Qi, separation of upper and lower, and recovery of qi flow leading to recovery. The pulse is deficient.

Liuqi Yinzi
Perilla Leaf (Zisu Ye), Green Tangerine Peel (Qing Jupi), Angelica Sinensis Root (Danggui), Red Peony Root (Chishaoyao), Lindera Root (Wuyao), Poria (Fuling), Platycodon Root (Jiegeng), Pinellia Rhizome (Banxia), Sichuan Lovage Rhizome (Chuanxiong), Astragalus Root (Huangqi), Immature Bitter Orange (Zhishi), Saposhnikovia Root (Fangfeng) (each [amount missing]).
Grind into a coarse powder. Take 3 qian each time with 1 zhan of water, 3 slices of ginger, and one jujube. Boil until reduced to 7 fen, remove the dregs, and take warm.

Caowutou Decoction
Caowutou (Caowutou), Asarum (Xixin), Tea Leaves (Chaya) (equal proportions).
Grind into a coarse powder. Take 3 large qian each time with 2 zhan of water. Boil until reduced to 1 zhan, remove the dregs, and take slowly at any time.

Xiangxiang Dan
To treat wind-phlegm affecting lateral or frontal headaches, stiffness and tension of the neck and back, or unbearable wind-cold injury.
Gypsum (Shigao) (1.5 liang), Aconite Root (Wutou) (half a liang), Typhonium Rhizome (Baifuzi), White Silkworm (Baijiangcan), Arisaema Rhizome (Tian Nanxing), Agastache (Huoxiang) (each 1 liang), Cinnabar (Chensha) (1 liang, half used for coating).
Grind into a fine powder, add water dropwise to form pills the size of a chicken head. Dry in a cool place away from wind. Take one pill per dose, chew thoroughly, and wash down with winter tea after meals.

Discussion: Dizziness refers to a sensation of the body rotating, inability to look up (looking up causes a desire to fall), heavy head unable to lift, abnormal vision, or a sensation of being on a boat. This is due to liver deficiency and weak blood.

Xiangxiong San
Sichuan Lovage Rhizome (Xiongxiong), Angelica Pubescens Root (Duhuo), Inula Flower (Xuanfuhua), Ligusticum Wallichii Rhizome (Ben), Asarum (Xixin), Vitex Fruit (Manjingzi) (each 1 liang), Gypsum (Shigao), Licorice Root (Gancao), Schizonepeta Spike (Jingshe Sui) (each half a liang).
Grind into a fine powder. Take 3 qian each time with 1 zhan of water and 3 slices of ginger. Boil until reduced to 7 fen, take warm at any time.

Taohong San
Typhonium Rhizome (Baifuzi), Lead Oxide (Huangdan) (equal proportions, stir-fry the two together until yellow, the dan turns purple, discard the dan and do not use).
Grind the Baifuzi into powder, mix with tea and wine, take one qian-bi at any time.

Baifuzi San
To treat headache radiating to the teeth, coming and going intermittently for years without cessation. This is due to wind-cold remaining in the bone marrow. Both are dominated by the brain; rebellious brain qi causes headache and tooth pain.
Ephedra Herb (Mahuang) (do not remove joints), Aconite Root (Wutou), Arisaema Rhizome (Tian Nanxing) (each half a liang), Dried Ginger (Ganjiang) (1 fen), Scorpion (Quan) (5), Typhonium Rhizome (Baifuzi) (1 liang), Cinnabar (Zhusha) (1 [fen/liang?]).
Grind into a fine powder. Take 1 zi each time, washed down with wine. After taking, remove the pillow and lie down for a while. Then moxa the Qubin acupoint (located above the ear, cover the ear forward, directly at the tip, moxa 7 moxa-cones). Left pain...

Qingshen San
Dry Head-Washing Medicine
Sichuan Lovage Rhizome (Chuanxiong), Sichuan Aconite Root (Chuan Wutou), Atractylodes Lancea Rhizome (Cangzhu), Talcum (Huashi), Trichosanthes Root (Gualou Gen), Angelica Dahurica Root (Baizhu) (each half a liang), Mung Bean (Lvdou) (1 he).
Grind into a fine powder. Use 2 qian each time, rub onto the head, wait a little while, then comb.

Shengbingzi
To treat lateral or frontal headaches.
Sichuan Aconite Root (Chuan Wutou), Arisaema Rhizome (Tian Nanxing), Dried Ginger (Ganjiang) (each 1 liang), Licorice Root (Gancao) (all raw above), Sichuan Lovage Rhizome (Chuanxiong) (each 2 liang), Saposhnikovia Root (Fangfeng) (1 fen), Gastrodia Rhizome (Tianma) (half [liang]).
Grind into a fine powder, soak in water, mix with steamed cake dough to form pills the size of a water chestnut. Shade for one night, sun-dry the next day. Take 3 Bingzi each time, first chew 3 spikes of Schizonepeta, then chew the medicine, washed down with clear tea.

Huangqi Ointment
To treat sores on the head and face.
Milky Milk Vetch Root (Mian Huangqi), Wu Bai Zhi, Sophora Fruit (Huaijiao), Saposhnikovia Root (Fangfeng), Angelica Sinensis Root (Danggui) (each half a liang), Apricot Kernel (Xingren) (2 liang).
Use 4 liang of sesame oil, simmer slowly over charcoal fire. When the herbs are scorched, filter them out and discard. Add 2 liang of yellow beeswax, boil into a thin ointment, store in a vessel, seal tightly, and take as needed like face oil.

Xixin Wan
To treat long-standing headache not healing.
Aconite Root (Wutou), Ligusticum Wallichii Rhizome (Ben), Sichuan Lovage Rhizome (Chuanxiong), Asarum (Xixin) (each half a liang), Licorice Root (Gancao) (1 fen).
Grind into a fine powder. Use half a jin of gypsum, grind finely, put into a crucible, heat strongly over fire, pass through, remove stone powder. Drop gypsum water to mix and form pills the size of a bullet. Wash down with tea or wine, one pill per dose.

Shigao Wan
To treat cold damage with lateral or frontal headache, nausea, and phlegm rebellion.
Gypsum (Shigao) (4 liang), Xuanjing Stone (Xuanjingshi), Niter (Xiaoshi) (1.5 liang), Aconite Root (Wutou) (1 liang).
Grind into a fine powder, use ginger juice to cook flour paste to form pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 15 pills each time, washed down with Schizonepeta Decoction. For severe cases, no more than three doses.

Xiangcha San
To treat phlegm-pi headache.
Asarum (Xixin), Caowutou (each 1 fen), Old Tea Leaves (Chen Chaya) (2 fen), Musk (Shexiang) (a small amount, add when cooked).
Grind into a fine powder. Take 3 qian each time with 2 zhan of water. Boil until reduced to 8 fen. Add a small amount of musk near the end. No more than three doses to cure.

Zhusha Dan
To treat all types of headache.
Cinnabar (Chensha) (water-levigated to extreme fineness), Gypsum (Shigao) (burned red, removed from fire to eliminate toxicity, then powdered), Typhonium Rhizome (Baifuzi) (each 1 liang, processed), Raw Camphor (Sheng Naozhi) (half a qian).
Grind into a fine powder, use millet rice as a binder to form pills the size of paulownia seeds. Chew 5 pills thoroughly, washed down with mint decoction. Sun-dry at noon and store inside Cinnabar to nourish. One formula has no gypsum.

Shensheng San
To treat unbearable headache.
Dried Scorpion (Gan Quan) (half raw half roasted, remove spines), Agastache Leaf (Huoxiang Ye), Asarum (Xixin), Ephedra Herb (Mahuang) (remove roots and joints).
Grind equally into a fine powder. Take 1 qian each time, mixed with mint wine or Schizonepeta tea. Take at any time.

Fuling Jiaomu Wan
To treat generalized and facial edema. This disease may be due to deficiency qi, wind-cold qi, or water-fluid qi. If swelling enters the abdomen, causing painful fullness and harming digestion.
Descurainia Seed (Tinglizi) (7 liang), Pepper Seeds (Jiaomu), Poria (Fuling) (each 3 liang), Evodia Fruit (Wuzhuyu) (2 liang).
Grind into a fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 10 pills each time, washed down with rice drink. Three times daily.

Shaoyao Huangqi Decoction
The head can only look up, eyes cannot open and are dizzy, saliva flows like mucus, aversion to wind and shaking chills. This is due to kidney qi deficiency, physical exertion damaging, wind attacking the lungs. Thus the Bladder does not nourish the exterior, causing stiff upward gaze. Because of labor and receiving wind in the lungs, saliva flows like mucus and there is aversion to wind. This is called Labor Wind. It is appropriate to take this.
White Peony Root (Shaoyao) (2 liang), Astragalus Root (Huangqi) (3 liang), Sichuan Lovage Rhizome (Chuanxiong) (2 liang), Aconite Root (Wutou) (half a liang).
Grind into a coarse powder. Take 5 qian each time with 2 zhan of water, 3 slices of ginger, and one jujube. Boil until reduced to 1 zhan, remove the dregs, and take warm.

Tongding San
To treat unbearable headache, regardless of whether it is lateral or frontal, and when all other medicines are ineffective. Also a miraculous formula for red eyes and toothache.
Dried Ginger (Ganjiang), Fragrant Angelica Root (Xiang Baizhu) (each half a liang), Artemisia Seed (Haojiaozi) (1 fen).
Grind into a fine powder. Use half a qian daily, divided into three times. Snuff gently into the nose, massage the Taiyang acupoints on both sides. The pain stops immediately.

Xiaoshi Wan
To treat Kidney-Jue headache.
Sulfur (Liuhuang) (grind separately), Gypsum (Shigao) (water-levigated, wait until dry, put slightly into a crucible, heat until red), Arisaema Rhizome (Tian Nanxing).
Grind equally into a fine powder, use water-boiled flour paste to form pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 30 pills each time on an empty stomach before meals, washed down with warm wine. If ineffective, increase to 50 pills.

Liuhuang Wan
To treat headache.
Sulfur (Liuhuang) (2 liang), Niter (Xiaoshi) (1 liang).
Grind into a fine powder, mix with water to form pills the size of paulownia seeds. Chew 15 pills on an empty stomach with winter tea. Treats all headaches like breaking and summer heat.

Heisanzi
To treat unbearable head-wind pain.
Arisaema Rhizome (Tian Nanxing) (one weighing 1 liang), Unnamed [Soap Pod?] (Bu [Zaoguang]), Soap Pods (Zaoguang) (2 ting).
Put the two ingredients together into a bottle, burn until thoroughly red. Let cool, then add Sichuan Lovage Rhizome (Chuanxiong) and Schizonepeta Spike (Jingshe Sui) in equal proportion to the burned medicine. Use half the amount of Chuanxiong. Pound together into a fine powder. Mix with clear winter tea.

Shexiang San
To treat continuous ear pain.
Urine Salt (Nixian), Musk (Shexiang) (small amounts of each).
Grind finely, apply dry powder into the ear. The pain will decrease. Pus can also be treated.

Treating Suppurative Ear
Alum (Bai Fan) (calcined), Guodian (Guodian).
Equal parts, add a small amount of musk, grind into a fine powder. Use a small amount dry application each time.

Treating Headache
Aconite Processed Root (Fuzi), Gypsum (Shigao) (burned red).
Grind equally into a fine powder, add a little dragon musk, mix with tea and wine to take.

Ben San
To treat redness on the nose and face.
[Missing Name] Ben (Yiben) single herb, ground into fine powder. First wipe the red area with soap pod water, wipe dry, mix with cold water or honey water to apply. Dry, then repeat.

Another Formula
Use sulfur powder mixed with water to apply. Also good.

Chicken Egg Ointment
To treat deafness.
Take one chicken egg, make a small hole at the top. Put one small toad inside. Wrap the feet with hemp. Add two Croton Seeds (Badou) peeled. Seal with wax paper. Roast the egg until cooked. Grind.

Earthworm Powder
To treat deafness.
Earthworm (Quyin) (remove soil), Sichuan Lovage Rhizome (Chuanxiong).
Grind the two ingredients equally into a fine powder. Take 2 qian each time after meals and before bed, mixed with clear tea.

Longevity Wind-Removing Luminous Peach Kernel Face-Washing Formula
Take 5 he of peach kernels, remove the tips. Use glutinous rice slurry to grind them finely. Use the slurry to pound and extract the juice until the peach kernels are exhausted. Stop. Warm slightly and use to wash the face. Long-term use is excellent.

Thousand Gold Face-Treating Formulas (Two Formulas)
Mix plum kernel paste with egg white, apply to the face, then it will fall off. Apply at night, wash with rice slurry in the morning, then apply Hu Fen (Lead Carbonate). Effective within 5-6 days. Avoid going out.

Another Formula
Soak three chicken eggs in fine wine, seal tightly. Leave for seven days until formed. Apply to the face, extremely clean.

Qianghuo Decoction
To treat wind-phlegm headache.
In previous years, Jinshi Li Gong suffered for three years. Every time his headache occurred, he felt irritable or vomited a little phlegm-saliva, then the headache decreased slightly. Usually he was frightened and unhappy, unable to endure labor. Stool [missing].
Notopterygium Rhizome (Qianghuo) (3 liang), Sichuan Lovage Rhizome (Xiongxiong), Saposhnikovia Root (Fangfeng) (remove seedlings), Ephedra Herb (Mahuang) (remove joints), Red Peony Root (Chishaoyao), Rhubarb (Dahuang), Ginseng Root (Renshen), Chrysanthemum (Ganju) (each 3 liang), Poria (Fuling) [amount missing].
Grind into a coarse powder. Weigh 1 fen daily, decoct with 3 zhan of water and 3 slices of ginger until reduced to 1.5 zhan. Remove dregs, divide warm into two doses. Take after meals. Long-term use yields efficacy.

Treating Stroke Facial Swelling
A man aged 61 had swollen feet with sores. Suddenly ate pork and felt uncomfortable. The doctor used purgatives. Slightly recovered. Went out, caught wind, sweated, then sudden swelling of the head and face, turning purple-black.

Rushen San
To treat夾脑风 (Jia Nao Feng - Wind invading the brain) and all unbearable headaches.
Single-head Dried Ginger (Dutou Ganjiang), Caowutou (Caowutou).
Equal parts, add a little Fragrant Angelica Root (Xiang Baizhu), grind together into a fine powder. First have the patient hold a mouthful of water, snuff 1 zi of medicine into the nose. In a moment, the pain stops.

Treating Migraine
Take Immortal Bone (Xianren Gu), grind finely into powder. Decoct in water, clarify. If left side hurts, drip into right nostril; if right side hurts, drip into left nostril. Immediate cure. Immortal Bone is the root of the Withering Radish (Fanghua Kuluobo).

Qingjin San
To treat Shaoyang Jue-Ni, lateral or frontal headache, Jia Nao Feng.
Chrysanthemum Flower (Ganju Hua) (2 fen), Sichuan Lovage Rhizome (Chuanxiong), Angelica Dahurica Root (Baizhu), Inula Flower (Xuanfuhua), Sichuan Aconite Root (Chuan Wutou), Agastache (Huoxiang), Arisaema Rhizome (Tian Nanxing) (all raw, each 2 qian).
Grind into a fine powder. Take 1 zi each time, mixed with clear winter tea. Do not restrict time. Do not take too much. Only one or two doses until the disease resolves. If suffering from migraine, regardless of duration, just...

Chuanxiong Decoction
To treat heavy/dizzy head and limbs, fatigue.
Sichuan Lovage Rhizome (Chuanxiong) (7 liang), Saposhnikovia Root (Fangfeng) (2.5 liang), Mentha Leaf (Longnao Bohe Ye) (7.5 liang), Platycodon Root (Jiegeng) (10 liang), Asarum (Xixin) (half a liang), Licorice Root (Gancao) (3 liang).
Grind into a fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills. 25 pills per liang. Take one pill each time after meals, chew thoroughly, washed down with clear tea.

Qingshen San
To treat unclear head and eyes, mental confusion.
Sichuan Lovage Rhizome (Chuanxiong), Schizonepeta Spike (Jingshe Sui), Cyperus Rhizome (Xiangfu Zi) (each 1 liang), Saposhnikovia Root (Fangfeng), Alisma Rhizome (Zexie), Licorice Root (Gancao), Gypsum (Shigao), Tribulus Fruit (Jili) (each 1 liang).
Grind into a fine powder. Take 1 qian each time, mixed with clear tea at any time.

Xiangxiang Dan
To treat wind-deficiency with abundant phlegm attacking upwards, causing lateral or frontal headache, brain pain, neck/back stiffness, or unbearable wind-cold headache.
Gypsum (Shigao), Sichuan Aconite Root (Chuan Wutou), Typhonium Rhizome (Baifuzi), White Silkworm (Baijiangcan), Arisaema Rhizome (Tian Nanxing), Agastache Leaf (Huoxiang Ye), Cinnabar (Chensha) (half used for coating), Sichuan Lovage Rhizome (Chuanxiong), Licorice Root (Gancao), Angelica Dahurica Root (Baizhu).
Grind into powder, mix with ginger-flour paste to form pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 2 pills each time, chew with winter tea. If not cured, increase the number of pills.

Dayufeng Dan
To treat upper-jiao wind-heat headache and brain pain occurring at any time.
Mint Leaf (Bohe Ye), Ox Gallstone (Niudan), Arisaema Rhizome (Tian Nanxing), Saposhnikovia Root (Fangfeng) (each 3 liang), Licorice Root (Gancao) (roasted or raw), Dried Ginger (Gan Jiangsheng) (each 1 liang).
Grind into a fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills. Each liang makes 15 pills. Chew with clear tea after meals.

Zhanggen Jian
To treat lung meridian wind-heat rushing upwards, causing acne and miliaria on the face, and red itching prickles.
White Silkworm (Baijiangcan) (3 liang), Cicada Slough (Chanqiao), Bupleurum Root (Chaihu) (each 2 liang), Gastrodia Rhizome (Tianma) (3 liang), Soap Pod (Zaoguang) (1 ting), Bovine Calculus (Niuhuang), Camphor (Naozhi) (each 1 zi).
Grind into a fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills the size of paulownia seeds. Take 30 pills per dose, washed down with Schizonepeta Decoction after meals.

Kaiewei San
To treat women's head-wind washing and trismus.
Arisaema Rhizome (Tian Nanxing) (one weighing half a liang, soaked in wine with ginger juice for 49 days, cut open, sun-dried and used), Pinellia Rhizome (Banxia), Sichuan Aconite Root (Chuan Wutou), Typhonium Rhizome (Baifuzi), Sichuan Lovage Rhizome (Chuanxiong).
Grind into a fine powder. Take half a qian washed down with wine. For children's acute and chronic convulsions, mix with mint decoction, take 1 zi.