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Treats all kinds of carbuncles, ulcers, and malignant sores, promoting wound closure and flesh regeneration after ulceration.
Chishizhi (Red Halloysite), Haipiaoxiao (Cuttlebone), Longgu (Fossilized Bones) (each 1 liang), Ruxiang (Frankincense), Moyao (Myrrh), Xuejie (Dragon's Blood) (each 2 qian), Qingfen (Calomel) (1 qian), Zhusha (Cinnabar), Yujin (Curcuma Aromatica Rhizome), Huangdan (Lead Tetroxide) (calcined), Huanglian (Coptis Rhizome), Baizhi (Angelica Dahurica Root) (each 5 fen).
Grind the above ingredients into an extremely fine powder, sprinkle it onto the sore, cover with a few stalks of Jiedixin (Centella Asiatica stem), and apply Taiyi Gao (Taiyi Plaster) on top.

For applying to various initial swellings and toxins that are of a heat nature.
Hanhuashi (Halloysitum Rubrum), Shigao (Gypsum Fibrosum) (2 liang), Huangbai (Phellodendron Bark) (1 liang), Da Gancao (Licorice Root) (1 liang).
Grind the above ingredients into an extremely fine powder, mix with water, and apply externally.
Another prescription: For treating various initial swellings and toxins where heat is rampant. Use Wubeizi (Chinese Gall) stir-baked until the original property remains, mixed in equal proportions with Baicaoshuang (Soot from Kitchen Chimney).
Another prescription: If Baicaoshuang is unavailable, add Dahuang Xiaoyan (Rhubarb processed with saltpeter), grind into powder, and mix with hot vinegar for external application; this is highly effective.

For treating malignant sores such as those on the brain and back, carbuncles, breast abscesses (Ru Yong), and groin abscesses (Bian Du).
Renshen (Ginseng Root), Danggui (Angelica Sinensis Root), Huangqi (Astragalus Membranaceus Root), Shaoyao (Peony Root), Chuanxiong (Ligusticum Wallichii Rhizome), Gancao (Licorice Root), Gualou (Trichosanthes Fruit), Baizhi (Angelica Dahurica Root), Guangui (Cinnamon Twig), Jiegeng (Platycodon Root), Jinyinhua (Honeysuckle Flower), Fangfeng (Saposhnikovia Root) (equal amounts).
Take two zhong of water, decoct until three-sevenths remain, add half a zhong of wine, strain off the dregs, and take warm. If the pain from the sore is severe, add Danggui, Shaoyao, or Ruxiang; take three doses per day. After one dose, if dark blood discharges from the sore opening or sweating occurs over the whole body, these are signs of the medicine's efficacy. If the disease condition is severe, weigh out one liang of the medicine, decoct with one bowl of water, and take orally. Those not yet formed into pus will dissipate spontaneously; those already formed into pus will rupture spontaneously.
Another prescription: For treating damp-heat sores and thin-skin sores.
In the twelfth lunar month, roast Huangbai (Phellodendron Bark) using pig bile to make a powder of one liang, add five fen of Qingfen (Calomel), grind together, and mix with warm water for external application.
Another prescription: Using Puhuang (Lygodium Spore), Qingfen (Calomel), and Huashi (Talcum) for external application is also good.

For treating all kinds of malignant sores, even those unrecognized by physicians.
Shuiyin (Mercury) (ground in oil until no silver stars are visible), Huangbai (Phellodendron Bark), Huanglian (Coptis Rhizome), Songzhi (Pine Resin), Nifen (Calomel), Gancao (Licorice Root), Tu Fengwo (Earth Honeycomb) ground together, mixed with oil for external application.
Another prescription: For treating lung affected by wind-heat, where toxic vapors cause sores all over the body or wet rot. Use Kushen (Sophora Flavescens Root) ground into powder, made into pills the size of wutong seeds using millet rice. Take fifty pills each time, with rice...