治面上百病。男子年五十服之。颜如十五儿。女年四十服之。颜如童女。面色常
如桃花。悦
钟乳粉（一两） 金屑（半两） 银屑（半两） 真珠（半两） 珊瑚（半两） 水精
（半两以上
并细研水飞过） 琥珀（半两细研） 密陀僧（半两细研） 白檀香（半两） 千岁枣（半
两） 乳
香（一
分） 白
附子（一两） 桃仁（半两汤浸去皮尖双仁麸炒微黄） 胡粉（半两） 黄鹰粪（半两） 丁
香（半
两） 光明
仁麸炒
微黄）
上件药。捣罗为末。入上药等。更研二七日讫。以冻冷和丸。如弹子大。每夜取一丸。
以温
令人面洁白媚好。宜服白附子丸方。
白附子（三分） 白芷（三分） 杜若（三分） 赤石脂（二两） 桃花（二两） 杏
仁（一两汤
浸去
石
脂（二
上件药。捣罗为末。炼蜜和捣五七百杵。丸如梧桐子大。每服。食后以温牛乳一合。下
二十
治面黑 。令洁白光悦。宜服桃花丸方。
桃花（三升阴干） 桂心（二两） 乌喙〔一（二）两炮裂去皮脐〕 甘草〔一（二）
两炙微赤
锉〕
上件药。捣罗为末。炼蜜和丸。如梧桐子大。每服。以温酒下十丸。日三服。
治面黑令人好颜色。洁白如雪方。
黄丹（二两炒令紫色研） 女（苑）（二两）
上件药。捣细罗为散。每服。以温酒调下二钱。日再服。黑色当随大便中出。
治面及手足黑。令光泽洁白方。
白杨皮（二两锉） 桃花（三两） 白瓜子仁（二两微炒）
上件药。捣细罗为散。每服。以温酒下一钱。日三服。
令人面洁白悦泽。颜色红润方。
桃花（采之树阴干）
上捣细罗为散。每服。以粥饮调下二钱。日三服。
令百岁老人。面如少女。光泽洁白。鹿角膏方。
鹿角霜（二两） 牛乳（一升） 白蔹（一两） 芎 （一两） 细辛（一两） 天门
冬（一两半
去心
（一两汤浸
去皮
上件药。捣罗为末。入杏仁膏。研令匀。用牛乳及酥。于银锅内。以慢火熬成膏。每夜
涂面
令面光白腻润。去 面皴方。
白芷（一两） 白蔹（一两） 白术（一两） 白附子（三分生用） 白茯苓（三分） 白
芨（半两）
上件药。捣罗为末。以鸡子白和为挺子。每挺如小指大。阴干。每夜净洗面了。用浆水
于瓷
又方。
白附子（半两） 杏仁（半两汤浸去皮尖研如膏） 香附子（半两） 白檀香（半两锉）
紫苏
香（
上件药。捣罗为末。以白蜜都和令匀。夜卧涂面。且以温水洗之。
又方。
牡蛎（三两烧为粉） 土瓜根（一两末）
上件药。都研令匀。以白蜜和。夜后涂面。旦以温浆水洗之。
治面黑斑驳。令人光悦洁白方。
栝蒌子（六合捣罗为末） 麝香（半两细研） 白石脂（二两细研） 雀粪（三合去黑
者细研）
上件药。都研令匀。以生菟丝苗汁。和如稀膏。每夜。先用澡豆洗去垢腻。涂于面上。
旦以
令人面似玉色光润方。
羊脂（一升） 狗脂（一升） 白芷（半斤） 乌喙〔一（二）两生去皮脐〕 甘草（一
两） 半
夏〔
上件药。细锉。并脂同入在铛中煎。候白芷色黄。膏成。以绵滤去滓。瓷器中贮。每夜
取用
令人面白光净悦泽方。
白蔹（一两） 白附子（一两生用） 白芷（一两） 本（一两） 猪KT （三具
水渍去赤汁
尽切研
上件药。捣罗为末。先以芜菁子一合。酒水各半升。相和煎数沸。研如泥。合诸药纳酒
水中
治面黑无精光。令洁白滑润。光彩射人。麝香面膏方。
麝香（半两） 猪KT （三具细切） 蔓荆子（三两研） 酥（三两） 栝蒌瓤（五
两研） 桃
仁（
上件药。都用绵裹。以酒二升。浸三宿。每夜涂面良。
又方。
雄黄（一两细研） 朱砂（一分细研） 白僵蚕（一两捣末） 真珠末（半两）
上件药。都研令匀。以面脂和胡粉一钱。入药末二钱。和搅令匀。夜卧涂之。旦以浆水
洗面
变颜容令怿泽方。
白附子（一两生用） 白芷（半两） 密陀僧（一两半） 胡粉（一两半）
上件药。捣罗为末。以羊乳和之。夜卧涂面。旦以暖浆水洗之。不过三五度。即颜容红
白光
能化面去 。令光泽洁白方。
真珠末（半两细研） 朱砂（半两细研） 冬瓜子仁（半两研如膏） 水银（一两以唾
于掌内
投令
上件药。都研令极细。入水银同研令匀。以面脂调和为膏。每夜敷面。旦以浆水洗之。
又方。
大猪蹄（一枚）
上以水二升。清浆水一升。煮令烂如胶。夜用涂面。晓以浆水洗之。面皮光急矣。
则天大圣后。炼益母草留颜方。\x
益母草五月五日收。收草时勿令根上有土。有土即无效。曝干。欲烧时。预以水洒一地。
或
炉
之。
火
中
不可妄传。如无玉锤。以鹿角锤亦得。
Treats various facial conditions. Men taking it at age fifty will have a complexion like that of a fifteen-year-old boy; women taking it at age forty will have a complexion like an unmarried maiden, with their face color often resembling the rosy hue of peach blossoms.
Zhongru Fen (Calcitriol Powder) (1 liang), Jin Xie (Gold Leaf) (0.5 liang), Yin Xie (Silver Leaf) (0.5 liang), Zhenzhu (Pearl) (0.5 liang), Shanhu (Coral) (0.5 liang), Shuijing (Rock Crystal) (more than 0.5 liang, all finely ground and processed by water levigation), Hupo (Amber) (0.5 liang, finely ground), Mituosen (Litharge) (0.5 liang, finely ground), Baitanxiang (White Sandalwood) (0.5 liang), Qiansui Zao (Thousand-Year Date) (0.5 liang), Ruxiang (Frankincense) (1 fen), Baifuzi (Radix Typhonii Rhizoma) (1 liang), Taoren (Peach Kernel) (0.5 liang, soaked in decoction, skin and tips removed, double kernels discarded, bran-fried until slightly yellow), Hufen (Lead Carbonate) (0.5 liang), Huang Ying Fen (Yellow Hawk Droppings) (0.5 liang), Dingxiang (Clove) (0.5 liang), Guangming Ren (Almond/Kernel) (0.5 liang, bran-fried until slightly yellow).
The above herbs are crushed, sifted into powder, mixed with the aforementioned ingredients, and further ground for twenty-seven days. Mix with cold frozen water to form pills the size of a bullet. Each night, take one pill, dissolve in warm water, and wash the face to make the complexion fair and charming.
It is suitable to take Baifuzi Wan (Typhonius Pill):
Baifuzi (Radix Typhonii Rhizoma) (3 fen), Baizhi (Radix Angelicae Dahuricae) (3 fen), Duoruo (Polygala Tenuifolia Root) (3 fen), Chishizhi (Red Halloysite) (2 liang), Taohua (Peach Blossom) (2 liang), Xingren (Apricot Kernel) (1 liang, soaked in decoction, skin and tips removed)... [Text incomplete here] ...Shizhi (Halloysite) (2 liang)... [Text incomplete].
The above herbs are crushed, sifted into powder, mixed with refined honey, and pounded five or seven hundred times to form pills the size of Sophora seeds. Take each time after meals, washing down with twenty pills using one he of warm cow's milk.
Treats dark complexion, making it fair and lustrous. It is suitable to take Taohua Wan (Peach Blossom Pill):
Taohua (Peach Blossom) (3 sheng, dried in shade), Guixin (Cinnamon Twig Heart) (2 liang), Wuhui (Aconitum Carmichaelii Lateral Root) (1 or 2 liang, processed, skin and navel removed), Gancao (Licorice Root) (1 or 2 liang, honey-fried until slightly red, cut into small pieces).
The above herbs are crushed, sifted into powder, mixed with refined honey to form pills the size of Sophora seeds. Take ten pills each time, washed down with warm wine, three times a day.
Treats dark complexion, improving color to be white as snow:
Huandan (Red Lead Oxide) (2 liang, fried until purple then ground), Nvyuan (Herba Siegesbeckiae) (2 liang).
The above herbs are finely crushed and sifted into a powder. Take two qian each time, mixed with warm wine, twice a day. The blackness will be expelled through stool.
Treats dark face and hands, making them lustrous and white:
Baiyangpi (White Poplar Bark) (2 liang, cut), Taohua (Peach Blossom) (3 liang), Baiguazi Ren (Winter Melon Seed Kernel) (2 liang, lightly fried).
The above herbs are finely crushed and sifted into a powder. Take one qian each time, washed down with warm wine, three times a day.
Makes the face fair, lustrous, and ruddy:
Taohua (Peach Blossom) (picked and dried in the shade of trees).
The above herb is finely crushed and sifted into a powder. Take two qian each time, mixed with rice gruel juice, three times a day.
Makes even a hundred-year-old person have a face like a young girl, lustrous and white: Deer Horn Paste Formula:
Lujiaoshuang (Deer Horn Ash) (2 liang), Niuru (Cow Milk) (1 sheng), Bailian (Rhizoma Anemarrhenae) (1 liang), Xiong (Rhizoma Chuanxiong) (1 liang), Xixin (Herba Asari) (1 liang), Tianmendong (Rhizoma Asparagi) (1.5 liang, heart removed)... [Text incomplete] ... (1 liang, soaked in decoction, skin removed)... [Text incomplete].
The above herbs are crushed, sifted into powder, added with Xingren Gao (Peach Kernel Paste), and ground evenly. Use cow milk and butter, simmer slowly in a silver pot until it becomes a paste. Apply to the face every night to make the complexion bright, white, fine, and moist.
Removes facial wrinkles:
Baizhi (Radix Angelicae Dahuricae) (1 liang), Bailian (Rhizoma Anemarrhenae) (1 liang), Baizhu (Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae) (1 liang), Baifuzi (Radix Typhonii Rhizoma) (3 fen, raw use), BaiFuling (Poria) (3 fen), Baiji (Rhizoma Coptidis/Bletillae - Note: Context suggests Whitening herb, likely Bletilla striata or similar whitening agent referred to as Baiji in cosmetics) (0.5 liang).
The above herbs are crushed, sifted into powder, mixed with egg white to form sticks. Each stick is the size of a little finger, dried in the shade. Every night after washing the face clean, soak in jar water in a porcelain container.
Another prescription:
Baifuzi (Radix Typhonii Rhizoma) (0.5 liang), Xingren (Apricot Kernel) (0.5 liang, soaked in decoction, skin and tips removed, ground into paste), Xiangfuzi (Rhizoma Cyperi) (0.5 liang), Baitanxiang (White Sandalwood) (0.5 liang, cut), Zisu... [Text incomplete] ...Xiang... [Text incomplete].
The above herbs are crushed, sifted into powder, mixed evenly with white honey. Apply to the face before going to bed at night, and wash with warm water.
Another prescription:
Muli (Oyster Shell) (3 liang, calcined into powder), Tugagen (Root of Trichosanthes Kirilowii Wild Variety) (1 liang, powdered).
The above herbs are ground evenly together, mixed with white honey. Apply to the face at night, wash off with warm jar water in the morning.
Treats dark and mottled face, making it lustrous and white:
Gualouzi (Trichosanthes Seed) (6 he, crushed and sifted into powder), Shexiang (Musk) (0.5 liang, finely ground), Baishizhi (White Halloysite) (2 liang, finely ground), Quefen (Sparrow Droppings) (3 he, remove black ones, finely ground).
The above herbs are ground evenly together, mixed with fresh Tusimiao juice (Juice of Dodder seedlings) to form a thin paste. Every night, first wash away dirt and grease with bath bean powder, then apply to the face, and in the morning... [Text incomplete].
Makes the face lustrous and moist like jade:
Yangzhi (Sheep Fat) (1 sheng), Gouzhi (Dog Fat) (1 sheng), Baizhi (Radix Angelicae Dahuricae) (0.5 jin), Wuhui (Aconitum Carmichaelii Lateral Root) (1 or 2 liang, raw, skin and navel removed), Gancao (Licorice Root) (1 liang), Banxia... [Text incomplete].
The above herbs are finely cut, and fried together with the fats in a pan. When the Baizhi turns yellow and the paste is ready, filter out the dregs with cotton cloth, and store in a porcelain vessel. Use every night... [Text incomplete].
Makes the face bright, white, clean, and lustrous:
Bailian (Rhizoma Anemarrhenae) (1 liang), Baifuzi (Radix Typhonii Rhizoma) (1 liang, raw use), Baizhi (Radix Angelicae Dahuricae) (1 liang), Ben (Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong/Ligusticum sinense) (1 liang), Zhu KT (Pig Skin/Fat - Text unclear) (3 units... [Text incomplete] Soak in water to remove red juice... [Text incomplete] Cut finely and grind... [Text incomplete]).
The above herbs are crushed, sifted into powder. First, take one he of Wu Jingzi (Turnip Seed), mix with half a sheng of wine and half a sheng of water, boil several times, grind into mud. Add the other herbs to the wine water... [Text incomplete].
Treats dark, dull complexion, making it fair, smooth, and radiant: Musk Facial Paste Formula:
Shexiang (Musk) (0.5 liang), Zhu KT (Pig Skin/Fat) (3 units, finely cut), Manjingzi (Vitex Fruit) (3 liang, ground), Su (Butter/Ghee) (3 liang), Gualou Rang (Trichosanthes Pulp) (5 liang, ground), Taoren (Peach Kernel)... [Text incomplete].
The above herbs are wrapped in cotton cloth, soaked in two sheng of wine for three nights. Apply to the face every night for good results.
Another prescription:
Xionghuang (Realgar) (1 liang, finely ground), Zhusha (Cinnabar) (1 fen, finely ground), Baijiangcan (Bombyx Batryticatus) (1 liang, powdered), Zhenzhu Mo (Pearl Powder) (0.5 liang).
The above herbs are ground evenly together. Mix one qian of Mianzhi (Facial Fat) and Hufen (Lead Carbonate) with two qian of the herbal powder, stir well. Apply before going to bed at night, wash face with jar water in the morning.
Changes complexion to be pleasant and lustrous:
Baifuzi (Radix Typhonii Rhizoma) (1 liang, raw use), Baizhi (Radix Angelicae Dahuricae) (0.5 liang), Mituosen (Litharge) (1.5 liang), Hufen (Lead Carbonate) (1.5 liang).
The above herbs are crushed, sifted into powder, mixed with sheep milk. Apply to the face before going to bed at night, wash off with warm jar water in the morning. Within three to five applications, the complexion will become red and white... [Text incomplete].
Eliminates facial blemishes, making it lustrous and white:
Zhenzhu Mo (Pearl Powder) (0.5 liang, finely ground), Zhusha (Cinnabar) (0.5 liang, finely ground), Dongguazi Ren (Winter Melon Seed Kernel) (0.5 liang, ground into paste), Shuiyin (Mercury) (1 liang, place in palm with saliva... [Text incomplete] Throw in... [Text incomplete]).
The above herbs are ground extremely fine, mixed with mercury until uniform, and blended with Mianzhi (Facial Fat) to form a paste. Apply to the face every night, wash off with jar water in the morning.
Another prescription:
Da Zhu Ti Zi (Large Pig Trotters) (one piece).
Boil with two sheng of water and one sheng of clear jar water until soft and gelatinous. Apply to the face at night, wash off with jar water in the morning. The facial skin will become tight and smooth.
Empress Wu Zetian's Recipe for Preserving Youth with Motherwort:
Collect Motherwort (Yimucao, Herba Leonuri) on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. When collecting, ensure no soil remains on the roots; if there is soil, it will be ineffective. Dry in the sun. When preparing to burn, pre-wet the ground... [Text incomplete] Furnace... [Text incomplete] Of... [Text incomplete] Fire... [Text incomplete] In... [Text incomplete].
Do not transmit this casually. If a jade hammer is unavailable, a deer horn hammer will suffice.