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[Four Prescriptions]

Prescription for Tight Lips:
Burn hair, bee hives, and the hairs of six domestic animals (horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs, chickens) into powder, and apply to the sores. Mixing with suillum adip (pig fat) is also effective.

Another Prescription:
Tightly roll old green cloth, burn it on a burning axe, collect the hot liquid from the axe head, and apply it. This treats ptosis of the lower lip as well.

Prescription for Black, Swollen Lips with Unbearable Pain and Itching:
Take four large copper coins, grind them on a whetstone using pig fat from the twelfth lunar month to extract juice, and apply to the affected area. After a few applications, it will heal.

Another Prescription:
Use a bamboo bow to pluck the affected area to expel bad blood; recovery is immediate.

[Twenty-Seven Prescriptions]

Gargle Prescription for Toothache:
Duhuo (Radix Angelicae Pubescentis) (3 liang), Huangqin (Radix Scutellariae) (3 liang), Xiong (Radix Chuanxiong) (3 liang), Danggui (Radix Angelicae Sinensis) (3 liang), Xixin (Herba Asari) (1 liang each), Bibo (Fructus Piperis Longi) (1 liang each), Dingxiang (Flos Caryophylli) (1 liang).
Crush the above seven herbs, add five sheng of water, boil to obtain two and a half sheng, and use for gargling. Hold in the mouth for a while then spit out, repeat. (Another version includes Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae) 2 liang).

Another Prescription:
Hold horse urine (Equus caballus urine) in the mouth according to the side of pain; within three mouthfuls, it heals.

Prescription for Cracked Teeth and Pain:
Fu Jizhen (Corona Spinae Rhamni) (200 pieces).
Boil this single herb in two sheng of water until one sheng remains; use for gargling. Do this four to five times daily until healed.

Another Prescription:
Apply powder from dead earthworms (Pheretima) to the painful area; pain stops immediately.

Prescription for Toothache:
At night, face the Big Dipper, press your palm to the ground, and moxa the fingertip touching the ground. Recite the spell: "This is caused by scorpion insects. Cut wood to seek wind. Insect mischief, moxibustion stops it. Pain, oh pain, Big Dipper collects it." Immediate recovery.

Another Prescription:
After Ren Ding hour (9-11 PM), face the Big Dipper and recite: "Big Dipper Seven Stars, San Tai Ministers. Person [Name] suffers from gum disease. If it is wind blocking the gate, if it is insect erosion of gums, collect them all. Quickly as the law commands." Bow three times, perform for three nights.

Prescription for Toothache:
Cangerzi (Fructus Xanthii) (5 sheng).
Boil this single herb in one dou of water until five sheng remain. Gargle while hot. Spit when painful, hold again. Two doses are sufficient. Stems and leaves can be used if fruits are unavailable.

Another Prescription:
Mangcao (Herba Siegesbeckiae) (5 liang).
Cut this single herb, boil in one dou of water until five sheng remain. Use for gargling. Consume within one day.

Another Prescription:
Insert powder of Lulü (Radix Veratri Nigri) into the tooth cavity. Do not swallow the juice; highly effective.

Another Prescription:
Burn peach wood pegs from doors to extract juice. Apply a small amount into the cavity and seal with wax.

Acupuncture for Toothache:
On the side of the pain, insert the needle one cun between the first and second metacarpal bones of the corresponding hand (Hegu LI4). Upon obtaining Deqi, apply tonification method for thirty-nine breaths.

Moxibustion for Toothache:
Take a branch from the southeast direction of a mulberry tree, about one chi long, thickness like a spoon handle, cut even at both ends. Place one end against the painful tooth in the mouth. Have three people of different surnames perform moxibustion. Recite: "Son of the Red Emperor of the South, teaches me to treat tooth worms. Three surnames moxa mulberry branches, branch breaks, scorpion worm dies. Quickly as the law commands, very effective."

Prescription for Worm-Eaten Tooth Pain:
Hold breath and write a talisman carefully: "Southern red-headed worm flies here, enters the cracked tooth wrapped around [Name]. Now finding the scorpion worm hole, settle here comfortably. Quickly as the law commands." Place a small piece of paper into the scorpion worm hole on the north side of a house pillar. Take a cup of water, perform Yu Bu steps as in exorcism rites, recite the text above, pour water into the tooth hole, and seal with clean yellow earth to prevent air leakage for permanent cure.

Prescription for Blackened Gum Tissue from Worm Erosion:
Burn rotten thorns, extract juice, apply ten times. Sprinkle Xionghuang (Realgar) powder; it heals. If teeth are black, wipe with pine ash. Grind Xionghuang into fine powder, apply to gums for one hundred days, twice daily. Avoid oil and pork for seven days; miraculous effect.

Prescription for Tooth Worms:
Have the patient sit cross-legged with a roof rafter across their knees. Stretch arms fully, stop, extend the middle finger. Perform three moxa cones on the tip of the middle finger over the rafter. Ignite both ends simultaneously. Patient recites: "Devouring tooth worm, named Hu, do not eat teeth, do not eat bone." The practitioner also chants this.

Prescription for Swollen Tooth Roots:
Songye (Pinus needle) (one handful), Yan (Salt) (1 he), Haojiu (Good wine) (3 sheng).
Decoct these three ingredients to one sheng. Gargle.

Prescription for Loose and Painful Tooth Roots:
Shengdihuang (Radix Rehmanniae Preparata) (3 liang), Duhuo (Radix Angelicae Pubescentis) (3 liang).
Cut these two herbs, soak in wine overnight, and gargle.

Another Prescription:
Frequently apply white salt powder to the gums, three times daily and twice nightly.

Another Prescription:
Click teeth three hundred times, morning and night. This prevents recurrence lifelong, ensuring healthy teeth in old age.

Prescription for Loose Teeth About to Fall Out:
Wrap a one-cun piece of large Shengdihuang (Radix Rehmanniae Preparata) in silk, place on the tooth, chew and swallow the juice. Discard when juice is exhausted. Do this three times daily for ten days to prevent recurrence.

Prescription for Empty, Swollen, Painful Tooth Roots with Debility:
Duhuo (Radix Angelicae Pubescentis) (4 liang), Jiujiu (Wine) (3 sheng).
Soak in a vessel, warm over stove fire until slightly boiling. Remove dregs, keep half. Gargle while hot. Repeat four or five times.

Another Prescription:
Take Rehmannia root finger-sized and one cun long. Moxa until very hot, crush with wooden pestle, wrap in silk, place on tooth, chew. Swallow juice, replace three times. Stop when healed.

Another Prescription:
Heat pine, cypress, and locust branches. Press against diseased tooth briefly; worms crawl out along the branch.

Prescription for Gingival Pain:
Xingren (Semen Armeniacae Amarum) (100 pieces, peeled and split), Yanmo (Salt powder) (one fangcun bi).
Boil in one sheng of water until foam appears. Gargle. Spit when taste fades, repeat. Two or three times suffices for cure.

Prescription for Trismus, Facial Deviation, and Tongue Stiffness:
Muli (Concha Ostreae) (roasted), Fulonggan (Caulis Argillae Ustus), Fuzi (Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata) (roasted, skin removed), Fanshi (Alumen) (burned).
Grind equal parts into powder. Mix with Baijiu (white wine) to form paste. Apply to affected area. Reapply when dry until cured.

Prescription for Dental Caries:
Cut hoof of hanging white horse, insert into cavity. Repeat up to three times.

Prescription for Uncontrollable Bleeding from Teeth:
Scrape 2 liang of fresh Zhuru (Bambusa Textilis Caulis) maceration. Soak in vinegar. Have patient undress and sit. Another person gargles on the patient's back three times. Boil Zhuru thickly to extract juice. Do not add salt. Adjust temperature, gargle throughout the day.

Prescription for Dislocated Jaw from Yawning:
One person holds the head, two fingers pull the jaw. Gradually push back into place. Insert a bamboo tube finger-width in size. Otherwise, fingers may be bitten.