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Treats all conditions caused by heat accumulation.
Huangqin (Coptidis Rhizoma, one liang) Huanglian (Scutellariae Radix) Chuanxiong (Ligusticum Chuanxiong Rhizome) Bohe (Menthae Haplocalycis Herba) [each five qian] Dahuang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma, two liang) Huashi (Talcum) Heichou (Pharbitidis Semen, head powder, [each four liang])
Grind into fine powder, and make pills with water. For those with blood stasis, add Guizhi (Cinnamomi Ramulus, five qian).
Green-headed duck or white duck. Prepare according to normal methods, cut finely, cook with rice and five flavors as porridge, eat on an empty stomach, can eliminate edema.
A carp weighing one jin, boil to extract juice, mix with winter melon and scallion white to make soup, eat it, effectively eliminates edema.

Use eight he of musculus galli domesticus excrement (chicken feces), stir-fry until slightly scorched, use two bowls of good wine without ash, decoct until half a bowl remains, filter to obtain the liquid, drink hot at wugeng (3-5 AM), then abdominal borborygmus occurs, during chen-si hours (7-11 AM), pass two or three times black watery stool, the next day wrinkles appear on the feet, drink once more, wrinkles gradually extend above the knees and cure is achieved.
Another prescription
Tugou (also known as mole cricket), bake dry, grind into powder. Use the upper half section to eliminate edema in the upper body; use the lower half section to eliminate edema in the lower body; left side treats left, right side treats right. Alchemists consider this miraculous.

Treats lower jiao blood accumulation.
Shuizhi (Hirudo, seven pieces, fried red with calcined stone) Mengchong (Blatta orientalis, eight pieces, fried with japonica rice) Taoren (Persicae Semen, seven pieces) Dahuang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma, one liang) Grind into powder, make four pills, decoct one pill in one zhong of water, take seven parts, warm dose. Should pass blood, if not passed, take again.

Treats edema, swelling entirely below the waist, use this decoction to induce sweating.
Mahuang (Ephedrae Herba, remove roots and nodes, four liang) Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma, two liang) Each dose three qian, use one zhong of water, first decoct Mahuang, after boiling again, add Gancao, decoct to seven parts, warm dose. Carefully avoid wind exposure, elderly and deficient persons should not use lightly.

Xu Xueshi and Zhu Danxi both praised this formula as the holy medicine for treating water distension.
Shehanshi (Ochre, large pieces three liang, placed in iron pot, heated red, taken out, put into vinegar to cool, then ground fine) Yuyuliangshi (Haematitum, three liang) Zhenzhensha (Ferrum Oxydatum Rubrum, five liang, washed clean and dried, boiled with two zhong of vinegar together with Yuyuliang in pot until dry, then put back in pot, heated red, poured onto clean brick ground, cooled and ground extremely fine) Qianghuo (Notopterygii Rhizoma et Radix) Muxiang (Aucklandiae Radix) Fuling (Poria) Chuanxiong (Ligusticum Chuanxiong Rhizome) Niuxi (Achyranthis Bidentatae Radix, soaked in wine) Guixin (Cinnamomi Cortex) Baidoukou (Amomi Fructus Rotundus) Dahuixiang (Foeniculi Fructus, stir-fried) Pengzhu (Curcumae Longae Rhizoma, processed) Fuzi (Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata, processed) Ganjiang (Zingiberis Rhizoma, processed) Qingpi (Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium Viride) Jingsanleng (Sparganii Rhizoma, processed) Baijili (Tribuli Fructus) Danggui (Angelicae Sinensis Radix, soaked in wine, [each five qian]) Grind into powder, mix evenly with the three aforementioned ingredients, use steamed cake as binder, make pills like tung seeds size, take thirty pills before meals with plain water, up to fifty pills. Deficient and elderly persons can also take it, urine will discharge immediately, does not disturb zang-fu organs, take three times daily, assist with warming and tonifying medicines, truly a divine formula. Most taboo salt, not a single hair's breadth can enter the mouth, otherwise the disease will worsen.