Wash the affected area with water filtered from ash obtained by burning mulberry branches. The facial lesions resemble tinea but are not tinea, and resemble scabies but are not scabies (if not treated urgently, they will spread over the entire body, leading to an incurable condition).
Boil quail droppings, pigeon droppings, and walnut shells together to make a decoction for hot washing (avoid consuming mutton, goose, fish, shrimp, etc., for one month).
Apply warm lard every night.
Named "Lou Sai" (Leaking Cheek Ulcer).
Wash with a decoction of the bark of Albizia julibrissin (Silk Tree), and apply the mashed residue topically. Simultaneously, use a concentrated decoction of its roots to gargle frequently.
Named "Sai" (Cheek Swelling/Ulcer).
Burn Loofah (Luffa cylindrica) until carbonized, grind into powder, mix with water for topical application, or mix aged calcined alum (Duan Shichen) with vinegar for application.
Burn old thatch grass from rooftops into ash, mix with sesame oil, and rub on the affected area.
Dry black sesame seeds in the shade, grind into powder, soak in black sesame oil, and apply several times daily.
Take seven mulberry leaves, boil in water, and wash the affected area daily (also treats eyebrow loss).
This is caused by a preference for eating fish and seafood.
Consume ginger vinegar mixed with Perilla water for several days to cure. The breath from the mouth and nose does not dissipate normally, condensing like a black cover; after ten days, it gradually extends to the shoulders and chest, connecting with the flesh, becoming hard as ironstone. Drink a decoction of Alisma orientale (Zexie), three cups daily, for five consecutive days to cure.
Stir-fry peach kernels, grind them, wrap in cotton, and insert into the affected area daily.
Alternatively, make pancakes using sesame oil and sleep on them; this can also help discharge pus.
Pound apricot kernels into a paste, extract the juice, and drip into the ear. If the pus does not discharge, death may ensue. Alternatively, sprinkle alumen crudum (Zao Fan) powder.
Burn pangolin scales (Chuan Shan Jia) into powder, mix with water, and instill into the ear to discharge pus. Alternatively, pull the ear to loosen it, allowing pus to discharge.
Roll realgar (Xiong Huang) in paper, ignite, and fumigate the area.
Another prescription: Mix one qian of Sichuan pepper (Huajiao) powder with half a cup of vinegar, soak for a long time, and drip a few drops into the ear to allow spontaneous discharge.
A nodule the size of a jujube pit exists in the ear, causing unbearable pain.
Drip distilled liquor into the ear, lie on one side for half an hour, then remove with forceps.
Alternatively, hold a piece of licorice root (Gancao) in the mouth, and plug the ear with two pieces of Kansui root (Gansui); immediate effect is expected.
Take a pinch of wood ear mushroom (Mu Er), stir-fry with vinegar, and eat with white sugar.
Blow white calcined alum (Bai Kufan) into the ear.
Another prescription: Steam three to five sheng of salt, wrap in green cloth, use as a pillow, and replace when cold; immediate effect is expected. Alternatively, drip juice from white onion stems into the ear; for severe pain, drip water from grinding an iron knife into the ear.
Mix pentaploid gallnut (Wubeizi) powder with water for topical application. If there is purulent discharge, sprinkle the dry powder directly.
First, wring out excess moisture from cotton wool. Mix equal parts of raw alum and cooked alum, grind into fine powder, blow into the ear several times to cure. Alternatively, instill chive juice.