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The *Bing Yuan Lun* (Treatise on the Origins and Manifestations of Diseases) states: The Heart governs the blood vessels, and its condition is reflected in the tongue. If there is heat in the Heart organ, blood will flow from the tongue like a gushing spring.

The *Ge Shi Fang* (Prescriptions by Master Ge) for sudden continuous bleeding from the mouth:
Moxibustion at the point one cun above the anterior hairline on the forehead, fifty moxa cones; the disease will be cured.

It also says: For bleeding from the tongue resembling pinpricks:
Apply Rongyan (Rhenish salt / Rock salt) to the affected area.

The *Qian Jin Fang* (Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold) for bleeding from the tongue with four or five holes, as large as hairpins, with blood flowing like a gushing spring, which is a Heart disease. The treatment prescription:
Rongyan (Rock salt) (5 fen), Huangbai (Phellodendri Cortex) (5 fen), Kuizi (Abutilonis Semen) (5 fen), Ren Shen (Ginseng Radix et Rhizoma) (3 fen), Guirou (Cinnamomi Cortex) (2 fen), Dahuang (Rhei Radix et Rhizoma) (2 fen), Gancao (Licorice Radix et Rhizoma) (2 fen), Zhi (processed).
The above seven ingredients are processed into pills the size of small beans. Take three pills with warm water, twice daily. If ineffective, increase the dose to ten pills.

The *Jing Xin Fang*: For bleeding from holes in the tongue like a gushing spring, this is a Heart disease. Insert a red-hot iron into the hole; it is effective.

The *Bing Yuan Lun* states: For those with bleeding from the nine orifices and lower limbs, the Ying and Wei (Nutritive and Defensive Qi) are severely deficient, the Fu and Zang organs are damaged, and the blood vessels are empty and exhausted. Consequently, joy and anger are unregulated, and fright and indignation...

The *Ge Shi Fang* states: When blood flows from all nine orifices and the spaces between fingers and toes of the four limbs, this is caused by sudden fright. Sprinkle Jinghua Shui (well water drawn at dawn) on his face, causing an immediate sensation of cold.
Another prescription: Use one sheng of rice flour, mix with water to form a porridge consistency, and drink it.

The *Qian Jin Fang* for bleeding from the nine orifices:
Also crush fresh leaves of Vitex trifolia (Jing Ye), extract the juice, and take two he with wine.
Another prescription: Moxibustion on Shangxing (GV23), fifty moxa cones.
Another prescription: Powdered Longgu (Fossilized Bones), insufflated into the nostrils until bleeding stops.

The *Fan Wang Fang* for sudden fright causing bleeding from all seven orifices:
Secretly sprinkle Jinghua Shui (well water drawn at dawn) on his face without letting him know.

The *Bing Yuan Lun* states: Hematemesis (vomiting blood). The Heart governs blood, and the Liver stores blood. Sorrow and worry injure the Heart; resentment and qi rebellion rising upward without descending...

The *Qian Jin Fang* for treating hematemesis:
Yebai (Cacumen Mesaeae) one jin, boil in six sheng of water to obtain three sheng, divide into three doses.

The *Ge Shi Fang* for sudden hematemesis with abdominal cramping and pain, dull pain in the chest, purple-black blood color, or blood excreted through urine:
Moxibustion on both sides of the umbilicus, each half cun away, four moxa cones each. (The *Ji Yan Fang* agrees with this.)
Another prescription: Powder one chi of Guizhi (Ramulus Cinnamomi), one sheep horn, roast until charred and powder them. Mix equal parts, take one fangcun bi (one square-inch spoonful) per dose, three to four times daily.