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Chronic non-healing sores: Take one tuft of hair from the head of a pig and one tuft from the head of a cat, burn them to ash, add one mouse feces pellet, grind into fine powder, mix with clear sesame oil, and apply topically.

Chew glutinous rice flour mixed with salt and apply to the lesion. Alternatively, grind Gentianae Radix (Longdancao) into powder, mix with persimmon lacquer, and apply.

Burn the bamboo hoop on a dung-scooping spoon to ash, grind finely, mix with sesame oil, and apply. For White Snake Coiling (a type of dermatological condition), applying red soil mixed with sesame oil is also effective.

Another prescription: Apply calcined stone (Duan Shi) mixed with hemp seed oil topically.

Take the oldest shoe and the oldest silk cotton wadding/fibers, burn both to ash, let cool, then mix with powder made from Semen Bigeloviae (Da Feng Zi) flesh. Blend evenly with sesame oil for application. If not dry, sprinkle with the ash powder.

Mix Rhizoma Pinelliae Preparatum (Banxia) powder with burned sheep feces in equal parts, blend with fresh ginger juice, and apply.

Sores growing between the eyebrows: Apply alum solution, mustard green soup, or crushed Chinese cabbage. Alternatively, mix soap (burned to retain its properties) and calcined alum in equal parts, grind to powder, and apply with sesame oil.

Dryopteridis Rhizoma (Shuixianshi, i.e., seeds of *Polygonum hydropiper*), baked to retain its properties, ground into powder and applied.

Apply white flour mixed with sesame oil, or irrigate the sore with decoction of Fritillariae Bulbus (Beimu). It will heal in a few days. Applying Beimu powder is also acceptable. (If located on both knees, or even in the crooks of both arms; eyes and mouth can move, and eating is possible).

Apply water obtained when grinding Radix et Rhizoma Rhei (Dahuang). Alternatively, burn Lotus Seed Pod (Lianpeng), grind to powder, mix with well mud, and apply. Or apply fresh lotus petals. (Shape resembles a blister).

Flesh breaking out like rice grains, bleeding and regenerating immediately: Drink 3 he of juice extracted from crushing Xanthii Folium (Canger Ye), and apply the residue topically.

Caused by excessive intake of alchemical pills during a previous sore, leading to fire-toxin flare-up: Crush Hydrocharis dubia (Shuizhong Sichao) and apply topically.

Swelling and pain triggered by exposure to donkey or horse sweat odor after a sore has formed: Mix Calcined Alum (Kufan) and Lithargyrum (Huandan - water-ground and fried until purple) in equal parts, grind to powder, and apply.

Apply official lead powder (Guanfen) mixed with loofah juice. Willow flower juice mixture is also acceptable.

A person suffering from widespread sores, too painful to sleep: Take 2-3 jin of Acori Tatarinowii Rhizoma (Changpu), dry it, grind to powder, spread on a cloth mat, lie on it covered with a quilt, so the sores do not stick.

Eggshells from eggs hatched by a hen are burned to ash (retaining properties), ground finely, mixed with sesame oil, and applied.

Those that are narrow, long, swollen, and black: Burn dried pig skull bones until charred, grind to powder, mix with egg white, and apply.

Sores shaped like a honeycomb: Drill a small hole in a jar, insert several clumps of torn cloth inside, ignite, and direct the smoke emerging from the small hole onto the affected area for two or three fumigations.