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Calx Minii (Lead Oxide, not specified processing) Baiming (Alumen Exsiccated, Calcined Alum) Longgu (Fossilized Bones) Hanshuishi (Calcitum, Gypsum Fibrosum) Ruxiang (Olibanum, Frankincense) Muxiang (Aucklandiae Radix, fried with caution against excessive heat) Huangqin (Scutellariae Radix) Binglang (Arecae Semen) Nifen (Calomel, Calomelas)
(each three qian)
Grind the above herbs into fine powder. Apply according to the dryness or moisture of the sore. If the sore is dry, wash it with warm salt water to moisten it, wipe it clean and dry, then sprinkle the powder on it. Do not apply too early; wait until the pus and blood are completely discharged.

Treats the initial swelling and pain of carbuncles and sores, or back abscesses caused by excessive heat in young people. It is urgent to use this formula to promote the discharge of toxins and unblock the bowels, continuing until the fever subsides. Adults and children may take it in all four seasons.
Zibei Che'ao (Tridacna Gigas with purple back, one pair, sealed with salt mud, fired until red-hot, placed on the ground to remove fire toxicity) Qingfen (Calomel, Hydrargyri Chloridum Vulgare) Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma, each two qian) Dahuang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma, five qian)
Grind the above herbs into fine powder. Take two qian per dose, washed down with mint decoction, aiming for rapid purgation; wine may also be used.

Indications are the same as above. Not suitable for those with deficient qi and blood.
Dahuang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma) Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma)
Cut the above herbs into pieces for a powder. Take three qian per dose, decocted in one and a half cups of water, taken on an empty stomach to purge heat and toxins from the lower jiao.

Regulates the ascending and descending of qi throughout the body, promotes the free flow of the Sanjiao (Triple Burner), unblocks stagnation, and disperses pathogenic heat. Treats the郁结 (stagnation) of yin and yang qi that fails to dissipate, various accumulated heat toxins, swollen nodules, or conditions resembling boils but not being boils, causing headache, nausea, alternating chills and fever, and rapid breathing.
Muxiang (Aucklandiae Radix) Dingxiang (Caryophylli Flos) Chenxiang (Aquilariae Lignum Resinatum) Ruxiang (Olibanum) Huoxiang (Agastachis Herba)
(each equal parts)
Cut the above herbs into pieces for a powder. Take three qian per dose, decocted in one and a half cups of water, taken warm after meals.

Treats all kinds of malignant nodules, scrofula, carbuncles, and malignant swellings.
Qingmuxiang (Aquilariae Radix, specifically imported) Chenxiang (Aquilariae Lignum Resinatum) Xunmuxiang (Olibanum, i.e., Ruxiang) Dingxiang (Caryophylli Flos) Shexiang (Moschus) Shengma (Cimicifugae Rhizoma) Sangjisheng (Taxilli Herba) Duhuo (Angelicae Pubescentis Radix) Lianqiao (Forsythiae Fructus)
Cut the above herbs into pieces for a powder. Take four large qian per dose, decocted in two cups of water until one cup remains, taken hot on an empty stomach. If there is no bowel movement after half a day, take another dose. Continue until foul matter is discharged.
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If diarrhea persists after purgation, accompanied by cold hands and feet, this formula should be used to tonify and warm the Spleen's righteous qi.
Baizhu (Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma) Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma) Baijiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens, White Ginger) Chenpi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium)
(each two qian) Fuling (Poria) Muxiang (Aucklandiae Radix)
(each one qian) Roudoukou (Myristicae Semen, two nuts, roasted)
Grind the above herbs into fine powder. This can be taken after the previous medicine. Mix two qian with salt water, take three to four times a day. Stop taking it when diarrhea ceases, hands and feet become warm, and appetite returns.