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Take the powder of *Platycladi Semen* (Bai Zizi, 柏子), place it in a clay pot to boil. When an unusual light appears, remove it. Add an equal amount of *Junci Medulla* (Deng Xin Cao, 灯心) and grind into powder. It clears the Lung, benefits the Small Intestine, calms the Five Viscera, stabilizes the Hun and Po, resolves blood stasis, and brightens the eyes.

Bitter and cold in nature, it treats fire-toxin in the tongue, mouth, and throat. Grind into powder, mix with water, and swallow. It also treats difficult labor.

Clears Lung fire, benefits the Heart, treats chronic cough leading to Lung atrophy (Fei Wei, 肺痿), eliminates carbuncles, and discharges pus.

Soak in rice-washing water, steam, slice, and sun-dry. It primarily treats wind-heat insect accumulation syndromes, intestinal wind with bloody stool, dysentery, and leprosy. Contraindicated for those with deficiency weakness.

Moistens the Lung, treats dryness-induced constipation and cough. Combined with *Platycladi Semen* (Bai Zi Ren, 柏子仁), it treats deficiency-type constipation.

Sweet and neutral, non-toxic. It promotes sexual function, extends longevity, moistens the intestines, and calms the mind.

Remove the skin and tips. Clears Lung heat and rebellious Qi, moistens and unblocks intestinal Qi stagnation.

Benefits the Large Intestine against heat and dryness, treating heat-bound fecal impaction.

For every jin (approx. 500g) of material, use four liang (approx. 125g) of *Junci Medulla* (Deng Xin Cao, 灯心) for stir-frying. Fry until the grains are round, crisp, and suitable for grinding. Winnow away the Junci Medulla and grind the material into powder. It eliminates carbuncles, stops pain, supports the interior, protects the Heart, and treats spermatorrhea and difficult labor.

The preparation method is the same as that of *Boswelliae Resina* (Ru Xiang, 乳香). It breaks up firm accumulations and foul blood, reduces swelling, generates flesh, induces abortion, and removes ocular opacities.

(Also known as Bai Jiao Xiang, 白胶香)
Boil in water three times. When the decoction is warm, pull by hand to wash out the oil. It hardens when cold, then grind into powder. It resolves toxin from ulcers, stops pain. Mix with *Calomelas* (Qing Fen, 轻粉) and apply with pig fat to ulcerated sores.

For every liang (approx. 30g), place in two bowls facing each other, seal with wet paper, and sublimate over fire for half an hour to produce Camphor Ice (Zhang Bing, 樟冰). Treats abdominal pain due to evil invasion and wind-phlegm. Add Sichuan Pepper (Hua Jiao, 花椒) during sublimation to kill tooth worms and stop toothache.

Acrid and warm. Treats cholera and mass formations. Blowing into the nose cures brain chancre (Nao Gan, 脑疳). Opens the diaphragm for regurgitation, treats abdominal swelling/toxins, nasal polyps, and cracked nipples.

Grind dry into powder or crush with wine, taken with decoction. Treats swelling/toxins, heart and abdominal pain, regulates the middle, tonifies viscera, benefits spirit, and strengthens yang.

First, decoct *Allium fistulosum* (Hu Cong, 胡葱) in water, remove the scallion. Use the decoction to boil the herb in three portions. Each time, when warm, pull by hand in the liquid to wash until all oil is removed. Cool and grind into powder. Specifically treats damp-wind, white tinea capitis (Bai Tu, 白秃), and generates flesh in plasters.

Descends to treat furuncles/toxins, stops vomiting and dysentery, resolves accumulation, stops abdominal pain, and regulates the Qi aspect.

Has potent toxicity. Remove skin, take the white flesh. For every jin of material, boil with half a sheng of Mung Bean (Lu Dou, 绿豆). When beans bloom, remove beans, take the Aconite (Wu Tou, 乌头), slice, dry, and grind. Treats wind-phlegm, spasm of limbs, drives out congealed pathogens, pursues cold-phlegm from meridians, and opens interstices. Roast the black skin, grind, mix with vinegar, and apply to treat tinea capitis caused by parasites (Zhu Fa Xuan, 蛀发癣).