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To treat sudden aphonia, use 3 fen of apricot kernels (peeled and decocted), separately pound 1 fen of cinnamon twig, mix and pound into a paste. Each time, take an amount the size of an apricot pit, wrap in cotton, hold in the mouth, and swallow slowly.

To treat cases where voice is lost without apparent cause, known as aphonia, use 5 liang of tangerine peel, add 3 sheng of water, boil to obtain 1 sheng, remove dregs, and take in one dose; the voice will naturally return.

Another prescription: Use cinnamon heart ground into powder, frequently place under the tongue, and gradually swallow the juice.

Another prescription: Use cinnamon, 3 qian per dose, with 1 zhan of water, decoct to 7/10 strength, take warm, at any time; the voice will return.

To treat aphonia due to wind-cold and throat discomfort, use 2 liang of lotus root, grind and extract juice, mix evenly with 1 zhan of wine, take half a zhan warm at any time.

To treat aphonia: Stir-fry sophora flower on a tile until fragrant and cooked to remove fire toxicity. After midnight, lie supine and take as desired. This also treats hemoptysis.

Another prescription: Use 1 stick of soap bean (peeled and seeded), 3 slices of radish. Add 2 zhan of water, decoct to 1 zhan, and take. The voice will return within three or four doses.

To treat red eyes with heat pain: Grind alum finely. Before sleep, use a copper chopstick to take an amount the size of a millet grain and apply to the corner of the eye. Wash with salt water solution the next morning.

To treat sudden eye swelling, itching, and pain: Use 3 jin of ground bark, add 3 dou of water, boil to 3 sheng, remove dregs, add 2 liang of salt, decoct to 2 sheng, and apply to the eyes.

To treat chronic internal cataracts: Use equal parts of dried plantago seed, raw rehmannia root, and ophiopogon root, grind into powder, make pills with honey the size of a paulownia seed. Take 30-50 pills each time before bed.

To treat eye pain and injury from foreign bodies with heat: Use the white juice of Kochia fruit, drip into the eyes.

To treat eye pain, cold tears, photophobia, and meridian pain: Use 0.5 liang of prunella spike and 1 liang of cyperus rhizome, grind into powder. Take 1 qian each time, mixed with winter tea.

To treat wind-heat red membrane in eyes: Crush fresh goji leaves and extract juice to drip into the eyes.

To treat tearing caused by wind: Use 2 sheng of large goji berries, crush them, place in a silk bag inside a jar, soak in 1 dou of wine, seal tightly for 21 days. Take freely every morning.

To treat acute red eyes with grittiness and pain: Grind shepherd's purse root and extract juice to drip into the eyes. It brightens vision and removes nebulae; long-term use makes vision clear. Harvest fruits on the 8th day of the 4th lunar month.

To treat red eyes: Clean blue mud maggots, dry in the sun, grind into powder, and apply dry to the red eyes; very effective.

Another prescription: Use malachite, calomel, saltpeter, borneol, and a small amount of musk, grind finely into powder, and apply dry.

Another prescription: Use equal parts of coptis rhizome, green vitriol, apricot kernel, and licorice root, grind into coarse powder. Decoct in water and wash; very effective.

Another prescription: Use equal parts of malachite, white clay, and mirabilite, grind into powder, make pills the size of soap beans. Take one pill each time, dissolve in plain water, and wash; immediate effect.

To treat cold tears and blurred vision: Use equal parts of glochidion flower, chrysanthemum morifolium, tribulus fruit, abalone shell, ephedra (de-jointed), white peony root, and licorice root, grind into powder. Take with tea.

Another prescription: Use dried ginger ground into powder, take 1 zi per dose, point and wash with boiling water.

Another prescription: Use 1 piece of large fritillaria bulb (soft and white) and 7 grains of pepper, grind into powder, and apply to the eyes.

To treat blurred vision: Use equal parts of schizonepeta spike, ground bark, and chinese chestnut fruit, grind into powder, make pills with refined honey the size of paulownia seeds. Take 20 pills each time, swallowed with rice drink.

Another prescription: Use 1 jin of sichuan peppercorn (lightly stir-fried, pounded to obtain 4 liang of red powder), 4 liang of chrysanthemum morifolium, and 1 jin of raw rehmannia root (pounded into paste), mix together to make cakes... [Text incomplete]

To treat all wind-toxic red eyes: Use equal parts of angelica sinensis, red peony root, coptis rhizome, and phellodendron bark, grind into coarse powder. Boil strongly in snow water or sweet water and wash with hot liquid.

To treat pterygium and fleshy growths: Water-pulverize 1.2 liang of lead monoxide. Melt 1 liang of alum in a silver vessel, add lead monoxide, stir well with silver... [Text incomplete]

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Another prescription: Use 1 liang of mirabilite, a small amount of indigo naturalis, myrrh, and frankincense, grind into fine powder. Snuff a small amount into the nose each time.

To treat wind-tearing eyes: Decoct coptis rhizome with sophora bark (or ash thereof) in water, clarify, and wash.

Another prescription: Use non-shedding mulberry leaves collected in the 12th lunar month, decoct in water and wash.

To treat red eyes: Finely chop coptis rhizome, soak in donkey milk for a long time, and apply to the eyes.

Another prescription: Use equal parts of coptis rhizome and birch bark, add one piece of talc. Decoct in water and wash.

Another prescription: Decoct ilex cornuta leaves strongly, add a little salt, and wash with hot liquid.

To treat red, swollen, and painful eyes: Pound equal parts of mugwort ash and coptis rhizome, decoct 1 zhan of water, add a little borneol, and wash warm.

Another prescription: Peel 1 large gardenia, take a piece of alum the size of a black soybean. Wrap in raw silk, steep in half a zhan of boiling water for one shichen (2 hours), and apply to the eyes.

Another prescription: Take one gall bladder of a castrated ram collected in the 12th lunar month, fill with honey, hang to dry naturally. For patients, take a grain-sized piece and place in the eye... [Text incomplete regarding pain relief].

Another prescription: Mix adzuki bean powder and arisaema powder with fresh ginger juice to form a paste. Apply to the taiyang acupoint.

Another prescription: Place a small amount of earwax in the eye; slight pain and tearing will occur, then it heals.

Another prescription: Grind azurite and frankincense (1 qian each) separately, mix with half a qian of calcined alum and three pinches of dried ginger powder. Apply with a copper chopstick.

Another prescription: Pound a piece of ginger, squeeze juice through raw silk into a porcelain vessel. Let the powder congeal, remove the green water on top, dry and grind finely. Soak in male pig bile, mix well, dry in shade, and grind finely again. Apply to the eyes.

To treat wind-induced ulcerative eyes: Use an arbitrary amount of malachite. Cut a large piece of ginger into two slices, hollow out holes, place malachite inside, reassemble, tie with thread... [Text incomplete] and apply.

To treat all eye pain: Hollow out one egg, remove yolk but keep white, seal the hole. Hollow out a large radish, place the egg inside, seal tightly... [Text incomplete, likely steaming process].

Another prescription: Decoct equal parts of saposhnikovia root and Chinese gall in water, wash frequently with warm liquid.

To treat nebulae affecting the eyes: Decoct Chinese gall in water. Cut a hole the size of an eye in thick paper, cover the bowl with it, place the eye over the hole to steam with the vapor. Change when cool... [Text incomplete].

To treat nebulae in the eyes: Decoct seven seeds of lemon balm in 1 zhan of water and take.

Another prescription: Mash fresh centipeda herb... [Text incomplete] and insert into the nose; the nebula will fall off. Commonly known as "Go Bu Shi Cao" (Eagle Not Eating Grass).

Another prescription: Put mirabilite in a vessel, refine over high fire, cool, sieve finely, and apply to the corner of the eye. Apply twice before sleep.

Another prescription: Wrap pure horse tooth mirabilite in thick paper, place against the flesh in the chest for 120 days. Remove, grind finely, add a little borneol, and grind extremely... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Use coral ground into powder, apply slightly every day until healed.

Another prescription: Grind cuttlefish bone finely, mix with honey, and apply to the eyes. Also treats nebulae in cattle and horses.

Another prescription: Remove the rough outer skin of abalone shell, grind finely, water-pulverize, and apply/grind on the eyes. Can also be used to soak and wash eyes. If there is amblyopia or internal cataract, or wind-heat in liver and lungs, it is suitable to take... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Use straight sparrow droppings, mix with human milk, and apply on the eyes to eliminate fleshy growths. If the white membrane turns red, vessels penetrate the pupil, or there is amblyopia, applying this is extremely... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Use half a jin of white beeswax, 2 liang of lead oxide (water-pulverized), 4 persimmon tannins (sunken in water, pitted), and 49 southeast-facing willow branches... [Text incomplete] to make a plaster, store tightly... [Text incomplete].

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Another prescription: To the above medicine, add half a liang of green salt, separately grind 2 qian of cuttlefish bone, and boil together into a plaster. Also treats internal cataracts. Additionally, use 2 liang of coptis rhizome powder, 3 bowls of water, boil a few times in the same pot used for the plaster. Clean the pot and willow/sandthorn branches. Store the medicine separately in a porcelain vessel. Specifically for washing red eyes and cold tearing.

To treat red obstruction, white membrane, and wind-tearing in the eyes: Apply green sheep gallbladder juice to the eyes.

To treat red, swollen, nebulous, and painful eyes: Apply carp gallbladder juice to the eyes.

To treat redness of the conjunctiva or itchy/painful eyelid margins due to wind: Crush fresh raspberry leaves and extract juice to drip into the eyes. If worms come out like silk threads, it is effective. Or dry in the sun, grind into powder, wrap in cotton... [Text incomplete].

To treat visual floaters, nebulae, grittiness, and pain: Burn 1 liang of clam shell to ash, grind finely, add a little borneol, and apply.

Another prescription: Specifically for removing nebulae, burn 10 clam shells to ash, grind finely, take a bean-sized amount and place on the nebula. Lie down for the time it takes to cook a stone of rice, then reduce. For those with polyps... [Text incomplete].

To treat red eyes and sores on the eyeball: Soak 1 liang of birch bark in 1 sheng of water in a bowl. In spring and summer, leave for one meal time. When a green color appears, use a chopstick tip to wind/cotton... [Text incomplete] with hot juice.

To treat wind-toxic attacking upward, causing eye swelling, itching, grittiness, pain, redness, ulceration, floating nebulae, or pterygium invading the pupil: Grind 1 liang of Chinese gall and 1.5 liang of vitex fruit into powder. Each... [Text incomplete].

To treat continuous tearing: Decoct coptis rhizome strongly, soak cotton in the juice, dry, and wipe the eyes.

To treat sudden red eyes with fleshy growths and pain: Crush and extract juice from one good pear. Finely chop 3 pieces of coptis rhizome, wrap in cotton, soak until color changes, lie supine, and drip into the eyes.

To treat damaged fleshy growths protruding from the eye: Chew 7 raw apricot kernels peeled, spit into palm. While hot, wrap around a chopstick tip with cotton, dip, and touch the fleshy growth. It will heal in 4-5 nights.

To treat heat-induced blurred vision: Decoct coptis rhizome strongly. Apply/wash at night and take orally.

Another prescription: Use a square-inch piece of phellodendron bark (scraped of rough bark), 1 bowl of fresh water, and a little honey. Boil until thick, filter through cotton, and apply/wash frequently day and night.

To treat redness and ulceration of both eyelids: Apply calomel every night; it will heal spontaneously.

Another prescription: Drip oil onto a green greasy stone, rub with an ancient coin tied to a stick until the oil is clear. Mix with zinc oxide powder, spread in a porcelain bowl... [Text incomplete].

To treat amblyopia: Use the milk of a white dog pup before its eyes open. Apply to the eyes three times a day. Clarity returns in half a month.

Another prescription: Simmer 4 fen pearl, 2 he white honey, and 1 carp gallbladder until it boils three times. Wrap in cotton, apply sparingly. Effect seen in half a month.

To treat excessive cold tearing: Apply the juice from the gallbladder of a black chicken.

To treat eyes suddenly protruding by 1-2 fen without cause: Inject cold water into a bamboo tube, irrigate repeatedly. It will naturally retract and return to normal.

To treat blurred vision: Cook 3 sheng of vitex fruit in 3 sheng of sour wine, dry in the sun, and grind into powder. Take 1 fang cun bi with well water, three times a day, no restrictions... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Dry vitex flowers in the shade, grind into powder. Take 1 fang cun bi each time, mixed with well water, after meals.

To treat inability to see at sunset, known as nyctalopia (night blindness): Melt 1 liang of lead carbonate and 1 liang of yellow wax, add powder and set. Take 1 qian each time, with two... [Text incomplete] pig or sheep liver.

Another prescription: Melt an arbitrary amount of yellow wax, mix with clam powder, make into balls. Scrape 1-2 qian each time, with 2 liang of pig or sheep liver... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Grind atractylodes macrocephala into powder, take 1 qian each time, at any time.

Another prescription: Stir-fry true clam powder until yellow, grind into powder. Mix with oil and wax while hot, make pills the size of soap beans. Insert into a pig kidney, tie with hemp, steam, and take. Can be paired... [Text incomplete].

To treat foreign bodies stuck in the eye that cannot be removed: Put a little sesame oil in the nostril corresponding to the affected eye side, lower head to let it flow into the eye. Tearing will expel the foreign body.

Another prescription: Grind good ink with clean water to a thick consistency, drip into the eye; it will come out naturally.

Another prescription: Dip a new brush in water and flick/splash the eye; the object will come out.

To treat internal cataracts: Grind carp gallbladder with borneol evenly, apply to the taiyang acupoint.

To treat inverted eyelashes and remove curled hairs: Apply blood from lice to the eyes; effective after several times.

Another prescription: Scrape flesh off pangolin scales using a bamboo comb. Roast the scales yellow using fat from sheep kidney area (skin and membrane removed). Rub with fat several times until酥 (crisp/melted)... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Use 3 soaked and roasted momordica charantia seeds, 120 segments of ephedra, 2 earthworms (cleaned of soil), 120 hooked thorns of dragon claw... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Use roasted pangolin scale, cleaned earthworm, cicada slough, and Chinese gall in equal parts. First pluck out the curled hair. Use 1 zi of medicine, snuff into the left or right nostril... [Text incomplete].

To treat complete blindness (red blindness): Use 2 liang of calamine, 1 liang each of litharge, coptis rhizome, and mirabilite. First decoct coptis rhizome in water to get juice, add child urine and boil again, then... [Text incomplete].

To treat internal cataracts: Use white civet cat feces collected in the 12th lunar month (best), water-pulverized 8 qian, 1 liang each of coptis rhizome and saposhnikovia root, and 3 pieces of new willow branch (1 square inch each). Use new... [Text incomplete].

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Add one wheat-grain-sized piece of borneol to half a he of each medicine; optional.

To treat all eye diseases: Use 10 liang of coptis rhizome, 3 qian of breynia seed (shelled and ground), 70 apricot kernels (peeled and de-husked), 7 qian of ephedra (de-jointed), 2 liang of gentian root (cleaned of soil). Soak in 1 dou of water: 3 days in spring/autumn, 2 days in summer, 5 days in winter. Decoct in a pot to 1/2 sheng, filter. Add 7 sheng of water, decoct to slightly less than 1/2 sheng, filter. Add 5 sheng of water, decoct to 1/2 sheng, remove. Filter through heavy silk, simmer slightly, pour into a bowl, and cook in a double boiler to make a plaster. Store in a porcelain vessel. Each time, take a grain-sized amount, dissolve with one drop of water in a cup, apply 3-5 times with the end of a hairpin. Bitter taste in mouth indicates immediate effect.

To treat blurry vision: Use 1 jin of chrysanthemum morifolium and 6 liang of red pepper (eyes removed), grind into powder. Make pills with fresh rehmannia juice the size of paulownia seeds. Take 50 pills each time before bed, washed down with clear tea.

Another prescription: Grind calamine, quench hematite in vinegar seven times, and water-pulverize lead oxide (each 4 liang), grind into powder. Use half a jin of white beeswax, refine in a copper pot until... [Text incomplete] as the standard.

To treat dim vision, tearing, photophobia, difficulty opening eyes due to grittiness, itching, pain, and long-standing or recent internal/external obstructions, pterygium, fleshy growths, nebulae... [Text incomplete] ulceration, cold water, etc... [Text incomplete].

To treat inverted eyelashes: Use... [Text incomplete] (likely soap thorns), jujube thorns, angelica dahurica, and indigo naturalis in equal parts. For left eye inversion, hold water in mouth, snuff into left nostril; for right... [Text incomplete].

To treat fleshy growths in the eye: Grind alum into fine powder, lie supine, and apply sparingly.

To treat chronic wind-eye: Use 11 apricot kernels (peeled and de-husked), divided into three parts. Use 1 cun of licorice root, divided into three parts. Rinse mouth clean. Chew apricot kernels... [Text incomplete] with... [Text incomplete].

To treat recent eye diseases: Grind malachite and halloysite in equal parts, grind into fine powder. Soak in boiling water for 5-7 boils, stir, clarify. Skim off the film on the water surface. Apply the clear medicinal water to the outer corner of the eye. Do not let dust enter the medicine; immediate effect.

To treat wind-cold in the eyes, alternating or fixed headaches, brain-invading wind, clear nasal discharge, and painful tearing: Calcine 2 liang of gypsum in charcoal, grind finely. Use 1 liang of ligusticum chuanxiong and half a liang of roasted licorice root. Grind into powder. Take 1 qian each time, mixed with scallion white and good tea decoction. Daily... [Text incomplete].

To treat all pterygium and fleshy growths, wind itching, and uncontrollable tearing: Use 1 dou of mirabilite, wash with half a jar of water to remove dirt, dry in shade. Use 5 sheng of white civet cat feces, wash with one jar of water to remove dirt. Mix finely. Add half a jin of yellow earth powder. Boil mirabilite and civet feces in water to 7/10 strength, filter out. Let stand overnight. The floating substance on the water surface... [Text incomplete] apply.

To treat unbearable wind-eye pain: Use 1 jin of rock honey, 1 liang of coptis rhizome, half a liang of myrrh, 2 liang of lead oxide (stir-fried to purple). Mix with honey and... [Text incomplete].

To treat all gan-eye ulcers, nebulae, internal/external obstructions, and pediatric diarrhea due to gan-toxin: Use 1 liang of alisma tuber and half a liang of licorice root, grind into powder. Slice one leaf of pig liver, sprinkle 5 qian of medicine on it, add 1 bowl of water, cook thoroughly, and take after meals.

To treat all new or old red eye pain, inability to sit or lie down, and mouth ulcers in adults and children: Use half a liang each of picrorhiza rhizome and areca nut, and a small amount of musk (separately ground). Mix... [Text incomplete].

To treat red eyes with cold tearing, headache, deafness, ear itching, nasal congestion, and heavy voice: Use 2 qian each of frankincense, myrrh, ligusticum chuanxiong, gypsum, and realgar, and basin nitre... [Text incomplete].

Hair-washing formula for brightening eyes: Use phoenix eye grass (clusters of pods on the toon tree), burn to ash, leach with water, and wash hair. After one year, eyes become like a child's. Adding toon bark ash is even... [Text incomplete]. August... [Text incomplete].

To treat blurry vision, nebulae obscuring pupils, photophobia, and all wind-toxic eyes: Use equal parts of notopterygium root, saposhnikovia root, bupleurum root, and roasted licorice root, grind into powder. Take each... [Text incomplete].

To treat blurry vision with frequent black spots and much cold tearing: Use 3 liang of goji berry, 2 liang of cistanche (wine-soaked and stir-fried), 1 liang of morinda officinalis (heart removed), and 4 liang of chrysanthemum morifolium... [Text incomplete].

To treat wind-heat stagnating upward, red and gritty eyes, eye pain, and excessive tearing: Use equal parts of red peony root, angelica sinensis, and coptis rhizome, grind into powder. Take 2 qian each time, with very boiling water... [Text incomplete].

To remove nebulae and brighten eyes: Use 5 liang of pure mirabilite. Place in a silver pot, cover with a new tile, slowly melt over charcoal fire. Pour out the clear liquid from the pot... [Text incomplete].

To treat red and swollen eyes due to heat accumulation in the liver meridian: Use 1 qian each of schizonepeta spike, angelica sinensis, and red peony root, and 7 fen of coptis rhizome. Add 1 zhan of water, boil three times, remove dregs, and wash... [Text incomplete].

To treat wind-heat red and ulcerated eyelid margins: Separately grind 1.5 qian of frankincense. Use 0.5 liang of coptis rhizome, schizonepeta, and 100 stems of rush pith. Use 2 qian each time, with 2 zhan of water... [Text incomplete].

To treat ulcerative margin wind, itchy/painful eyes, and frequent tearing: Use 1 liang each of coptis rhizome and light bamboo leaf, and 2 liang of cypress bark (half raw, half dry). Chop... [Text incomplete].

To treat blurred vision in men due to kidney deficiency, distant vision impairment, progressing to internal cataracts: Use 8 liang of poria cocos (peeled), 4 liang of goji berry (wine-soaked and steamed), 2 liang of angelica sinensis (wine... [Text incomplete]).

To treat upper eye晕 (dizziness/blurriness): Use 2 liang each of ligusticum chuanxiong, forsythia fruit, and sophora anglepine, and 4 liang of raw white sesame (peeled). Grind into powder. Take 3 qian each time, mixed with fresh water.

To treat wind-red eye pain: Pound pennycress herb into a paste, make into pills. Take one pill each time, soak in water and wash. Immediate effect within 5-7 times.

To treat blurry vision, invigorate blood, and brighten eyes: Grind lablab bean into powder. Take 1-2 qian each time, mixed with strong licorice decoction.

To treat dim vision: Use mercury grass, take 3 qian each time, add a little ephedra. Add 1 zhan of water, decoct to 8/10 strength, remove dregs, take orally at any time.

To treat red skin in the eyes: Crush fresh raspberry leaves and extract juice to drip into the eyes. If worms come out like silk threads, it is effective. Also, the juice mixed with plaster prevents hair whitening.

To treat years-long blindness and inability to recognize people: Grind cassia seed into powder. Take 1 fang cun bi after meals with rice drink. Also treats amblyopia with white membrane, red pain, tearing, and liver heat... [Text incomplete].

To treat red eyes: Grind wrinkled five-leaf grass and gentian root together into powder. Take 1 qian each time, dip in cooked mutton liver and chew/swallow.

To treat red eye pain: Grind dried ginger into powder, mix with water, take half a qian.

For eye diseases, if the pupil is not damaged, 9 out of 10 treatments are successful: Steam 6 sheng of vitex fruit until vapor penetrates, place under a steamer, rinse with hot water, dry in sun, rinse again... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Cook 3 sheng of turnip seeds in 3 sheng of vinegar, dry in sun, grind into powder. Take 1 fang cun bi with well water, increase to 3 bi, take twice a day. No restrictions. Long-term use brightens eyes and allows seeing through lungs and intestines.

To treat red eye swelling: Use equal parts of gardenia, malachite, flying alum, and apricot kernel, grind into powder. Mix with water, clarify, and wash.

To treat blurry vision: Collect small walnuts dropped by wind in April. At noon after a full meal, swallow one pair with unrooted water. Lie down and sleep; mud will appear in the nostrils... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Fill a castrated ram's gallbladder with pearl powder, hang in the northwest corner of the house, dry in shade for 100 days. Make pills the size of small beans. Take one pill a day; long-term... [Text incomplete].

Another prescription: Soak 5 liang of cinnabar in 5 sheng of fine wine for five nights, dry in sun, grind finely, make pills the size of small beans with honey. Take 20 pills each time; long-term use brightens eyes.

Another prescription: Grind 7 apricot kernels and 3 qian of copper verdigris finely. Mix with honey, apply to the inside of a bowl. Burn a ball of moxa to fumigate. Wash with fermented grain water to treat all eye... [Text incomplete].