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For patients with cough and expectoration of pus and blood, accompanied by dull pain in the chest:
Grind Coicis Semen (Yiyiren, 薏苡仁) (lightly stir-fried) into powder, take it mixed with glutinous rice decoction, or cook it into porridge, or boil it in water for consumption.

Sesamum indicum L. seed (black sesame) (peeled), and Nelumbinis Semen (Lianrou, 莲肉) (lotus seed meat, keeping the plumule, soaked in water until soft), eat them every morning.

Trichosanthes Kirilowii Root (Gualou, 瓜蒌), Boswellia Carterii Resin (Ruxiang, 乳香), and Myrrha (Moyao, 没药), boil in wine and take orally.

To treat various sores, tinea, and lice in the hair:
Take Arsenic Sulfide Rubrum (Yinzhu, 银朱) 4-5 fen, rub it on thick paper, ignite it, and place it in a dry bowl. Cover it with a wet bowl leaving a small gap.
The smoke will adhere to the inside of the wet bowl. Then, use a finger to apply the soot to the hair, cover with a felt hat, and the nits and lice will be eliminated. Apply this smoke to slices of cooked pork or chicken liver,
and paste it onto sores or tinea infested with insects. If insects erode the anus, mix the smoke with jujube flesh to make pills, wrap them in cotton, insert into the anus overnight, ensuring the cotton tail remains outside
for easy removal the next morning. This is extremely effective.

Black cow dung (text missing here, typically refers to fresh or aged cow dung) grind into fine powder and sprinkle; if dry, wash with Honeysuckle Twig Decoction (Jinyinhua, 金银花), then mix with sesame oil and apply.

When pus and blood flow continuously:
Sprinkle with Eleocharis Tuberosa Starch (Biqi, 荸荠粉). Extremely effective.

Sores appearing不定ly on the body, face, limbs, head, and feet:
Nail (processed by calcination to retain efficacy), grind into powder, mix with sesame oil, and apply to the top of the carbuncle. It heals immediately.

Red and white vesicles, moist, ulcerated, painful, and itchy, growing linearly in clusters of more than ten, named "Curtain Pearl Inverted Hanging" (Lianzhu Daogua, 帘珠倒挂), difficult to cure if chronic:
Use Acorus Tatarinowii Rhizome and Leaf (Changpu, 菖蒲) hung under eaves during the Dragon Boat Festival, chop finely, bake on tiles until dry, grind into powder, mix with sesame oil, and apply externally. Heals after 5-6 applications.

Sophora Japonica Fruit (Zaojiao, 皂角) (ensure it is not worm-eaten), burn, dry in shade, grind into powder, mix with yellow wine and take orally. Alternatively, take 10 Sophora Japonica Seeds (Zaojiazi, 皂荚子), decoct in water and take. Alternatively, take 7 Walnut Kernels (Hutaoren, 胡桃仁),
burn, dry in shade, grind into powder, mix with yellow wine and take orally.

Sores arising below the left hip:
Styphnolobium Japonicum Seed (Huai Zi, 槐子) (stir-fried) 7 qian, decoct in hot yellow wine and take orally, until sweating occurs. Alternatively, mix refined wheat flour, soybean flour, and egg white for topical application, cover with mulberry bark paper, and change twice daily. Alternatively, grind Leucodon Scabridus (Wasong, 瓦松) into powder, mix with egg white for topical application. The sore will heal without suppuration.

Whenever there is lower abdominal pain radiating to the testicles, with more cold than heat and a preference for hot drinks, it is Hernia Qi (Shanqi, 疝气). If the scrotum is red, swollen, and hot, with dark and damp urine,
internal heat, dry mouth, and pain accompanying swelling, these are signs of Scrotal Abscess (Nang Yong, 囊痈). Do not use methods for treating hernia-related heat conditions.
Use the inner membrane of hatched eggshells mixed with Calomelas (Qingfen, 轻粉) in equal parts, ground into powder, processed with refined... (text incomplete)