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Apply thick slices of lean pork meat to the affected area for immediate effect. Pig skin can also be used. Alternatively, burn straw paper into ash, let it cool, and apply externally.

Bake dried lotus flowers until dry, grind into powder, mix with wine, and take orally, two to three times daily; recovery occurs within a few days. Dried lotus leaves can also be used.

Grind cedar wood charcoal into an extremely fine powder, steam with white sugar until very soft, mix evenly, spread on paper, and apply while hot. Whether for broken bones, injured tendons, severed fingers, or fractured feet, recovery occurs within a few days; do not underestimate this. Avoid cold, raw foods and "fa-wu" (stimulating foods that may exacerbate conditions).

Another prescription: Pick petals of large red Chinese rose, dry in shade, and grind into powder. Dosage is one li (approx. 0.03g) per year of age, mixed with good wine and taken orally. Cover with a blanket and sleep for one shichen (approx. 2 hours); bone cracks will be heard throughout the body.

Dry willow tree bark, grind into powder after sun-drying, steam with good liquor, mix for external application, bind with cloth, change once daily; healing occurs in three to five days.

Burn chestnut charcoal until thoroughly red-hot, grind into fine powder, and apply while hot as a compress.

Boil Motherwort Herb (Yimucao) into a paste (avoid iron vessels), form into pills, take several qian per dose, wash down with hot wine; recovery in ten days.

Take two qian of pointed pigeon droppings (stir-fried), one liang of white flour (stir-fried), and hemp seeds (quantity unrestricted, burned until carbonized but retaining properties), grind together into fine powder, mix with yellow wine to induce sweating.

Another prescription: Stir-fry fingernails and toenails from hands and feet in sesame oil until powdered, take with yellow wine to induce sweating.

Another prescription: Take one he of Sophora fruit (stir-fried until yellow), decoct in one bowl of good wine until reduced to eight-tenths, take hot to induce sweating.

Immediately administer a cup of chive juice mixed with child's urine orally.

Also treats scalds and burns: Melt one liang of beeswax and three qian of Thladianthi Fructus (Tenghuang) in sesame oil, apply externally to the wound for immediate pain relief and hemostasis.

If the heart is still warm, treatment is possible: Support the patient in a sitting posture resembling meditation, have someone hold their hair to slightly lower the head, blow Rhizoma Pinelliae Preparatum (Banxia) powder into the nose, then administer ginger juice and pure sesame oil orally. Subsequently, mix three qian of ash from dried lotus leaves with hot urine, take three doses daily for spontaneous recovery. Also treats the "Five Extinctions" (fainting during childbirth, demonic possession, hanging, drowning, and death from nightmare).

To remove foreign bodies embedded in flesh: Mash dried amaranth vegetable, mix with rock sugar, and apply externally.

Take Corydalis Rhizome (Yanhusuo) powder, two qian mixed with good wine, taken twice daily.

One horn of a castrated bull (scrape off one layer after drying one layer over fire), millet (quantity unrestricted, buckwheat flour is also acceptable), inner bark of elm tree (quantity unrestricted), six to seven grains of Sichuan pepper, and poplar leaves (quantity unrestricted, optional if unavailable). Grind all into fine powder, boil with aged vinegar into a thin paste, spread on cloth for application, wrap firmly with long thin bamboo strips. Continuous cracking sounds from within the bone should be heard at all times; once the sound stops, reduction is complete. This method also applies to fractures from cattle or horse falls, or branches broken by wind.