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Use tangled hair or palm fiber, gently rub the affected area until healed. (Do not wash with hot water)

Decoct raw Gardenia fruit (Gardeniae Fructus) into a thick decoction and rinse frequently.

Place rice sugar into the eye; when it feels itchy, gently pull out the foreign body.

Drip a small amount of rooster comb blood into the eye to expel the foreign body. Alternatively, take fresh mulberry root bark, wash and crush it thoroughly, place it in the eye, and manipulate it until the foreign body comes out naturally.

Drip carp bile into the ear. Or insert snake fat into the ear for miraculous effect. Also, wrap black-bone hen fat in cotton and insert it into the ear for efficacy. Alternatively, blow Licorice Root powder (Gancao Mo) into the left ear and Sui powder (Sui Mo, likely referring to Kansui or similar) into the right ear to restore hearing. These two medicines must be purchased from different sources. Another method: place carp brain in a bamboo tube, steam until melted, and pour into the ear. Or mix Realgar (Xionghuang) and Sulfur (Liuhuang) in equal parts, wrap in cotton, and insert into the ear; hearing may recover after several months. Drip rat bile into the ear; two or three applications are effective. Or process Aconite Root (Fuzi, prepared) and Rhizoma Acori Tatarinowii (Shichangpu) (each 2 liang), crush into powder, mix with vinegar to form pills the size of a jujube pit, wrap in cotton, lie on one side, and insert into the ear; change once nightly. After ten days, yellow fluid will discharge. Steam this packet in a rice steamer until the rice is cooked, remove one packet, have the patient lie on their side, insert an oil-soaked cotton wick into the ear, and gradually advance with subsequent packets until cured. Additionally, deafness in the left ear is common in women, often caused by anger; deafness in the right ear is common in men, often caused by excessive sexual desire. Use Musk (Shexiang, 3 fen, or substitute with Antelope Horn Lingyangjiao) ground into powder, first insert into the ear, then drip two or three drops of high-quality distilled liquor into the ear. Then take one scallion, remove the tip, use the tubular part to insert into the ear to ventilate the passage; relief occurs shortly thereafter.

Mix Mustard Seed (Jiezi) powder with human milk to form pills, wrap in cotton, and insert into the ear; change twice daily. Or grind Pepper Seed (Jiaomu), Croton Seed Kernel (Badou Rou), Rhizoma Acori Tatarinowii (Shichangpu), and Pine Rosin (Songxiang) (each 1 qian 5 fen) into powder, mix with melted wax to form a cylindrical shape, wrap in cotton, and insert into the ear; change once daily for miraculous effect.

Grind Costus Root (Muxiang) into powder, soak in wine overnight, take the wine and drip into the ear, tilt head to drain after a short while; two or three applications cure the condition.

Take Northern Asarum Root (Beixixin) powder (1 qian), melt yellow beeswax to form pills the size of mouse feces, wrap in cotton, and insert into the ear; one or two applications bring recovery. Strictly avoid... [text cuts off]. Alternatively, grind Licorice Root (Gancao) and Rehmannia Root (Shengdi) into extremely fine powder, wrap 3 fen in cinnabar paste, and insert into the ear during the day. Or grind Kansui Root (Gansui) and Aconite Root (Caowu) into extremely fine powder, wrap in cotton, and insert into the ear at night; very effective. Or use genuine Musk (Shexiang, 1-2 fen) wrapped in cotton and inserted into the ear; after one day, a sound like thunder may be heard in the ear; repeatedly tested with miraculous results.