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Treatment for back carbuncle (Fabei, a severe abscess on the back), use ash from tangled hair, taken with wine in a dose of Fangcunbi. It also treats Biaoju (a type of acute suppurative infection).
Another prescription: Drink two sheng of iron slurry to induce diarrhea.
Another prescription: Use three-year-old vinegar dregs, simmer over low heat until thick, mix with beef tallow, and apply to the affected area. Change once daily.
Another prescription: Apply pork lard to the affected area, four to five times daily. It also treats Furu (breast abscess).
Another prescription: Slice pork and sheep fat, soak in cold water, and apply as a patch. Replace when warm. Using 50–60 slices will lead to recovery. Initially, it feels cold; once the cold sensation stabilizes, one can sleep soundly, which is very effective.
Another prescription: Burn deer horn to ash, mix with vinegar, and apply to the affected area, four to five times daily.
For Biaoju, where nodules appear on hands, feet, shoulders, and back like red beans, exuding fluid upon rupture, roast ground beetles (Wuqingzi), wrap in cloth, and apply continuously for good results.
Another prescription: Roast sesame seeds, grind into powder, and rub onto the affected area for good results.
Another prescription: Mix flour with wine and apply.
Another prescription: Remove the scab, wash with warm vinegar rinse water, and apply a paste made from swallow nests and feces from a hundred-day-old male infant.
Another prescription: Take ash from tangled hair, one Fangcunbi per dose, three times daily. It also treats back carbuncle.
Another prescription: Boil rapeseed greens, take one sheng of the juice and drink it. Also eat several meals of dried, cooked rapeseed greens with a little salt brine. In winter, use the seeds mixed with water.
Another prescription: Apply pig bile to the affected area for good results.
Another prescription: Boose root bark and hibiscus roots and leaves, boil to extract juice, simmer until syrupy, and take as desired.
Another prescription: Soak the lesion day and night with sugar collected in the twelfth lunar month; recover after several days.
After an ulcer erupts, wash and wipe clean with salt water, then apply ash from soap pods for good results.
Another prescription: Apply earwax from cattle to the affected area for good results.
Another prescription: Wrap raw hemp oil residue in cotton cloth and apply to the wound to expel parasites.
Another prescription: Pour boiling water into the wound three or four times.
Ulcers resemble boils but differ slightly. If pus drains today but refills tomorrow, resembling bean juice, cook and mash rapeseed greens, place in a wet cloth bag, and bury in hot ashes...
Another prescription: Wash with soap pod decoction, dry, and apply powdered cypress bark. Do not allow scabbing.
For all swelling toxins causing unbearable pain, crush castor beans and apply; recovery is immediate.
For malignant swelling that can be fatal within one night, crush fennel herb, extract juice, drink one sheng, divided into three to four doses daily. Apply the dregs to the swelling. Roots can also be used in winter.
For Fish-umbilical Ding sores (Yuzhi Dingchuang), which are not very painful but can be fatal, apply Hanshi tang (cold food maltose) for good results. If hardened, burn to ash and apply for immediate recovery.
Another prescription: First puncture the sore with a needle, make holes around the edges, crush white lettuce, extract juice, and drip into the holes.
Ding swellings must avoid contact with Mahbo (hemp pollen/flowers); contact leads to death. Puncture the center and edges with a needle, apply realgar powder for immediate cure. Another method suggests applying yellow earth.
Another prescription: Apply fresh soil from mouse burrows mixed with children's urine.
Another prescription: Mix iron rust powder with human breast milk and apply for immediate effect.
Another prescription: Grind cowpea flowers into powder and apply for recovery.
Another prescription: Apply the tip of human feces for immediate recovery.
Another prescription: Place one pill of Sishen Dan on the head; overnight, the root of the disease will be extracted. See Volume 12 for the Sishen Dan formula.
Swelling and pain caused by sores result from exposure to water and wind-cold. If swelling enters the abdomen, it is fatal. Soak in warm ash lye from mulberry branches, keeping it warm by reheating as needed.
To treat boils, grind Genkwa flower into powder, mix with gum to a porridge-like consistency, and apply.
For sores arising below the chest and heart, mix Wudu Realgar and Pine Resin (each 3 liang), form into blocks, scrape into powder, and take one Fangcunbi with wine, three times daily. Reprepare if ineffective.
Stone boils (Shiyong) are hard as stone and do not suppurate. Mash fresh Phytolacca radix and apply; replace when dry, until soft. It also treats damp leakage and other boils/furuncles.
Another prescription: Dry the white inner bark of Shu mulberry roots, grind into powder, bind with gum, mix with wine, and apply to the swelling to extract the root.
Another prescription: Mix Datura seed powder with vinegar and apply to the head to extract the root.
Another prescription: Apply snake skin; recover overnight.
Another prescription: Mix dust from roof beams and ash from hibiscus stems and roots in equal parts with vinegar and apply for immediate recovery.
Another prescription: Grind one acorn with vinegar on a bluestone slab, apply to the swelling, reapply when dry. Recovery occurs within ten applications.
Another prescription: Moxibustion of 100 cones at the site; the stone will fragment and exit. If it does not, increase the number of cones.
For painful, swollen boils with restlessness, apply ten layers of fresh Catalpa leaves, wrap with cloth ensuring appropriate tension, change twice daily. It relieves pain, reduces swelling, and promotes pus drainage effectively.
To reduce early-stage boil swelling, take three finger-widths of Datura powder, mix with water, and drink three times daily; this is highly effective.
For established suppuration, grind Trichosanthes root into powder, mix with vinegar, and apply; replace when dry. Adzuki beans are also suitable.
For boil swelling, mix mustard seed powder with hot water, apply on paper, and patch.
Another prescription: Mix Baijiangshi (Alum Stone) powder with garlic, mash, and apply for recovery.
Another prescription: Mash Verbenae Herba and apply; the head will emerge.
Another prescription: Moxibustion at the Qiuzhong point on both big toes restores health; adjust based on the side of the pathology.
For headless furuncles, swallow one Hibiscus esculentus seed; do not overdose.
Another prescription: Burn vine ash and apply to seal the area for spontaneous resolution. Ash from cow dung is also effective.
Another prescription: Apply Arctii Radix et Folium.
Another prescription: Mix sparrow droppings with water and apply.
Another prescription: Mix fresh pepper powder and soot from the bottom of a pot in equal parts with vinegar and apply. Another method adds yeast powder.
To promote rupture of boils containing pus, burn 21–27 chicken feathers, grind into powder, and ingest to induce rupture.
Another prescription: Mix human milk with flour and apply; by dawn, pus and blood will drain completely. Avoid hand contact.
Another prescription: Burn the rope from bamboo mats into powder, mix with December pork lard, and apply to the lower edge to induce rupture. Acupuncture is unnecessary.
For non-healing wounds after pus drainage, chew cooked soybeans and apply.
Another prescription: Stir-fry black sesame until black, mash thoroughly, and apply.
Another prescription: Apply cow dung; replace when dry.
Another prescription: Burn broken rush mat ash, mix with December pork lard, and insert into the hole.
For chronic non-healing boils, mash Purslane leaves, extract juice, simmer, and apply.
For continuous pus discharge after boil/furuncle rupture or non-healing wounds from foreign body injury, mix 1 liang of Pyritum (Shi Liuhuang) powder with a piece of chopstick, crush the head, moisten slightly, dip into sulfur, and pierce the wound hole until healed.
For boils presenting as an eye-like protrusion unresponsive to other treatments, or Ding sores, mix equal parts of Beetroot root and Iron Rust (Tie Shengyi). Mash together. Make a hole with a large needle, carve Beetroot root to needle size, coat with Iron Rust, insert into the hole, cover with the mashed mixture, and seal with silk cloth coated with one Fangcunbi. Replace when pus appears. The root will be extracted quickly, leading to cure. Avoid greasy, raw/cold, slippery/vinegary, five pungents, stale, and sticky foods.
Another prescription: Pierce the sore head and edges to drain fluid thoroughly. Mash raw chestnut yellow flesh, apply, and surround with dough. Prevent leakage. From morning to noon, the root extracts.
Another prescription: Surround the sore with dough as before. Randomly prick the sore with a needle. Boil vinegar in a copper vessel, pour into the dough ring (approx. one cup volume). Replace when cool. Three times...
Another prescription: Take snake skin the size of a chicken egg, boil in four sheng of water for three to four boils, strain, and drink in one dose for immediate recovery.
Another prescription: Mash Xanthii sprouts, extract 1–2 sheng of juice, drink, and apply dregs for immediate recovery.
One method: Moxibustion five fingers behind the transverse crease of the palm, left for males, right for females, seven cones.
For boils with eye-like protrusions unresponsive to drugs, carve Fuzi (Aconite lateral root) to the size of a chess piece, place on the swelling, secure with saliva, and moxibustion until the Aconite is about to char.
For all swelling toxins causing pain, crush ripe castor beans and apply for immediate recovery.
For leg swelling extending to the abdomen (fatal), boil one dou of Adzuki beans in three dou of water until soft. Remove beans, soak legs in the juice up to the knees once daily until cured. If swelling has entered the abdomen, do not soak; instead, eat the boiled beans. Avoid salt, vegetables, rice, and noodles. Drink the juice if thirsty; stop when cured. For chronic non-healing sores, recurrence with bone extrusion (named Guju/Bone Abscess), mix pork lard with mashed Catalpa leaves and apply.
Another prescription: Mash Populus alba leaves and apply.
Another prescription: Mash Beet seeds, wrap in cloth, change once daily.
Another prescription: Dig a pit, narrow mouth, wide interior, three chi deep. Put two sheng of dry chicken manure, crush mugwort and briar leaves, mix with manure to create fuel...
For Fusujia Ju (Bone-deep Abscess), burn Quercus cortex to ash, take with wine in a Fangcunbi dose.
Another prescription: Moxibustion one cun posterior to Jianshi (PC5), number of cones according to age, for immediate recovery.
For all Ding swellings, take any part (root, stem, leaf, seed) of Xanthium, burn to ash, mix with sour rinse water to form mud, apply, and replace when dry.
Another prescription: Drink one sheng of iron slurry for immediate recovery.
Another prescription: Mix flour with December pork lard and apply for immediate recovery.
Another prescription: Burn one sheng of Tribulus seeds to ash, mix with strong vinegar, and apply. Recovery overnight. Better if the head is pierced first.
Another prescription: Grind Soap nut kernels into powder and apply; recovery within five days.
Another prescription: Burn one dan of Artemisia argyi to ash, leach juice through a bamboo tube, mix one or two he with Vitriolum (Duanshi) to a flour-paste consistency. Pierce the sore until painful, then cauterize. Repeat three times; the root extracts itself.
For Red-eye Ding, roast white powder until black, mix with honey and apply for good results.
Another prescription: Apply fresh mouse soil mixed with water; replace when hot.
Another prescription: Grind horse teeth into powder, mix with December pork lard and apply to extract the root. Can also be used as ash.
For burns, strictly avoid washing with cold water; cold penetrating heat drives pathogens deeper into bones, damaging tendons and bones, making recovery difficult. Immediately after burning, expose to fire/moxibustion. Even if severe...
Another prescription: A woman burned her hand up to the palm; immediately soak in over one sheng of sour vinegar. Pain persists upon removal; continue until pain ceases. The sore does not...
Another prescription: Mix roasted sesame oil powder with Gardenia fruit pulp and apply; thicker application is better.
Another prescription: For formed sores, burn white sugar to ash, powder, and apply; dries and heals immediately.
Severe swelling and pain from sores can be fatal in a few days, caused by wind-cold, water exposure, or fox urine irritation. Burn sorghum straw, cow/horse manure, or fresh mulberry branches...
Another prescription: Insert hot wax into the sore; effective for new sores.
Another prescription: Apply the white sap from Dandelion (Taraxacum) grass, roots, and stems. Apply generously for great efficacy. Known as Erbancai in Sichuan and Gou Ru in Guanzhong. (Ru, pronounced nu-gou.)
For Intestinal Abscess (Changyong), burn top feathers and feces of a rooster into powder, take with empty stomach using wine.
Another prescription: Collect a small amount of eaves drippings, burn to ash, mix with water and drink. Holes should form to drain pus and blood for cure.
Another prescription: Grind three sheng of melon seeds, boil in three sheng of water to obtain 1.5 sheng, divide into three doses.
Another prescription: Apply mud made from soil from tombs of the deceased.
For internal abscesses without a head, consume chicken feces for recovery.
Another prescription: For intestinal abscess, flex elbows, moxibustion 100 cones on the sharp bone at each elbow tip; pus and blood will drain, leading to recovery.
For women with engorged breasts (Duru), grind hibiscus stem ash, take one Fangcunbi with water, three times daily for cure. One method uses powder, not ash.
Another prescription: Take two rice-grinding pestles, heat them, place cotton and old cloth on the breast, and alternate pressing with the pestles until cured.
For Breast Abscess (Ruyong), fill a water jar with sour rinse water, heat stones, put them in until boiling stops, reheat stones as before, let cool slightly, immerse breast. Repeat heating stones and soaking until cured, usually within three cycles.
Another prescription: Mash green onion whites and apply; also squeeze out one sheng of juice and drink in one dose for cure.
Another prescription: Peel upper bark of willow roots, mash thoroughly, warm, place in a linen bag, and compress the breast. Replace when dry; cure overnight.
Another prescription: Sieve processed Cervus Cornu (Deer Horn), take the clear supernatant of pork lard, drink one Fangcunbi. No more than two doses. Can also be taken with vinegar-water.