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The *Qianjin Fang* (Thousand Gold Formulas) provides a formula for treating scrotal swelling and pain:
Mix vinegar with flour and apply it topically.
Another formula: Mix vinegar with hot ashes and apply via moxibustion-like heat compression (ironing).
Yet another formula: Collect soil from under the cooking pot, mix with egg white, and apply as a poultice.

The *Ge Shi Fang* (Ge's Formulas) provides a formula for treating sudden swelling and pain of the male scrotum:
Burn cow dung into powder, mix with bitter wine (vinegar), and apply topically.
Another formula: Use powder of Cnidii Fructus (Shechuangzi, 蛇床子), mix with egg yolk, and apply topically.
Yet another formula: Crush Turnip Radish (Wujing, 芜菁) and apply topically.
Yet another formula: Apply five moxa cones (zhuang, 壮) precisely at the center of the transverse crease on the second phalanx of the great toe; this is effective.

The *Yimen Fang* (Medical Gate Formulas) provides a formula for treating scrotal swelling:
Apply powder of Cinnamomi Ramulus (Guixin, 桂心); this is effective.
Another formula: Mix powder of Rheum Palmatum (Dahuang, 大黄) with vinegar and apply; both are effective.
Yet another formula: Take Gleditsiae Fructus (Zaojia, 皂荚), roast it, remove the skin and seeds, powder it, mix with water, and apply topically; the swelling will subside immediately.
It also states: A formula for treating sudden, unbearable scrotal swelling and pain:
Moxa the tip of the great toe, at a distance from the nail edge equivalent to the width of a leek leaf, using the number of moxa cones corresponding to the patient's age (sui nian zhuang, 随年壮). If the right testicle is swollen, moxa the right side; if the left, moxa the left; if both are swollen, moxa both. After one night, relief is expected.
Another formula: Point the glans penis downward and align it with the top of the midline seam of the scrotum. Apply three (or seven) moxa cones directly on the seam; the swelling will subside.

The *Boji Anzhong Fang* (Formulas for Universal Peace and Health) provides a formula for treating sudden empty swelling of the scrotum and upward rushing of qi after sitting or standing for long periods in damp, cold places:
For the above condition, stir-fry black soybeans with rice vinegar, wrap them in blue cloth, and apply heat compression to the heart and abdomen.

The *Jiyan Fang* (Collected Proven Formulas) provides a formula for treating sudden testicular swelling:
Cook and crush Prunus persica seed (Taoren, 桃仁), apply as a poultice, replacing when dry. This also treats female vulvar swelling.

The *Xuannv Jing* (Classic of the Dark Lady) states a formula for treating male scrotal swelling:
Take crushed Prunus persica seed (Taoren, 桃仁), remove the skin and tips, and discard any double-kernel seeds. Roast until the color changes, powder it, form pills the size of a bullet, and swallow with wine.

The *Ge Shi Fang* (Ge's Formulas) provides a formula for treating sudden retraction of the testicles into the abdomen with severe pain bordering on death, known as Yin Hernia (Yin Han, 阴疝):
Stellerae Radix (Yelangdu, 野狼毒) (4 liang), Polygala Tenuifolia Root (Fang Kui, 防葵) (1 liang), Aconiti Lateralis Radix Praeparata (Fuzi, 附子) (2 liang).
Grind these three herbs into powder, mix with honey to make pills, take three pills the size of a wutong seed (wuzi, 梧子) per dose, taken three times a day and night.

The *Xuannv Jing* (Classic of the Dark Lady) provides a formula for treating testicular swelling due to sexual exhaustion, or retraction into the abdomen with abdominal colic leading to cessation of breath and death:
Take women's menstrual cloth stained with blood, wash it in water to extract the juice, and drink it. (Current commentary: The *Yimen Fang* records burning it into ash and taking one cun cube with wine.)
Another formula: Take fourteen hairs from the female pubic region, burn them into ash, and swallow with morning well water.