荆芥穗五钱(炒黑),煎服。
白纸三十张(烧灰),热酒冲服。虽已死一日,打去一牙,灌之亦活。
又方 干漆渣,破漆器烧烟熏之。或干荷叶烧灰,温酒调服。
取粪坑陈年砖一块,活水洗净。真绍酒五斤(陈甜酒亦可),放在盆内。用栗炭火将砖
烧透,浸在酒内,提出复烧,如此三遍,其酒不过二斤,候酒温,即令产母服一二杯,过半
日渐愈,将余酒陆续饮完而痊(不饮者用好水亦可)。(上方得自异人传授,不可轻视,并治
麻痘不起)
用朱砂点其舌,令作产儿之状,用人扶住,一个悄悄在窗外将大瓦器掷地打碎,妇闻响
而惊,舌即收入。
红薯(又名黄薯),于柴炭火中烧熟,食之愈。(曾有百药不效,服此而愈者。薯为滞气
之物,服之反效,殊不可解)
鸡蛋二个,各破一孔如指头大,入黄丹五分,用银簪搅匀,以纸封口,入饭甑内蒸熟食
之。
榆树皮焙为末,日三服。或常食香油豆腐皮。
Scallion white (Congbai, 葱白) mixed with Frankincense (Ruxiang, 乳香), pounded together into a paste and applied externally. Alternatively, use Notopterygium Root (Qianghuo, 羌活) and Saposhnikovia Root (Fangfeng, 防风), one tael each, decocted in water for oral administration.
Schizonepeta Spike (Jingjie Sui, 荆芥穗), five qian, stir-fried until charred black, decocted and taken orally.
Thirty sheets of white paper, burned to ash, taken orally with hot wine. Even if the patient has been dead for one day, after knocking out a tooth and administering the medicine, life can be restored.
Another prescription: Use dry lacquer residue; smoke the area with the smoke generated by burning broken lacquerware. Or, burn dried lotus leaves to ash, mix with warm wine, and take orally.
Take one brick from a cesspit that has been there for years, wash it clean with running water. Place five jin of Shaoxing wine (aged sweet wine is also acceptable) in a basin. Heat the brick thoroughly with chestnut charcoal fire, immerse it in the wine, remove it, and reheat it. Repeat this process three times. The remaining wine will be no more than two jin. When the wine is warm, have the postpartum woman drink one or two cups. After half a day, symptoms will gradually improve. Finish the remaining wine gradually to achieve recovery (if she cannot drink wine, good water may be used instead). (This prescription was obtained from an extraordinary person and should not be underestimated; it also treats measles and smallpox that fail to erupt.)
Apply Cinnabar (Zhusha, 朱砂) to the infant's tongue to simulate the appearance of childbirth. Have someone support the mother while another person quietly smashes a large ceramic vessel on the ground outside the window. Upon hearing the loud noise, the mother is startled, and the prolapsed tongue retracts.
Due to anger and weeping damaging the Liver, resulting in vomiting of clear fluid.
Drink Leek Juice (Jiucai Zhi, 韭菜汁) mixed with a small amount of Ginger Juice (Jiang Zhi, 姜汁).
Sweet Potato (Hongshu, 红薯), also known as Huangshu, roasted熟 in firewood or charcoal fire and eaten to cure the condition. (There were cases where hundreds of medicines failed, but this cured them. Sweet potato is considered a qi-stagnating food, so its efficacy is puzzling.)
Hawthorn Fruit (Shanzha, 山楂), three qian, stir-fried with old hearth soil (Zao Xin Tu, 灶心土) until charred, ground into powder, mixed with brown sugar and rice soup, and taken orally. Extremely effective.
Barley Sprout (Dayamai, 大麦芽), stir-fried and ground. Take three qian per dose, mixed with boiling water or congee.
Two eggs, each pierced with a hole the size of a finger. Insert five fen of Lead Oxide (Huandan, 黄丹), stir evenly with a silver hairpin, seal with paper, steam in a rice steamer, and eat cooked.
Named "Jealousy Milk" (Dulu, 妒乳), referring to engorged breasts due to milk stasis.
Apply dust from roof beams mixed with vinegar topically.
Bark of Elm Tree (Yushu Pi, 榆树皮), baked and ground into powder. Take three times daily. Or frequently consume tofu skin fried in sesame oil.
Decoct Raw Licorice Root (Sheng Gancao, 生甘草) to make a concentrated juice. Wrap cotton around an adult's finger, dip it into the liquid, place it in the infant's mouth, and let the infant suckle.